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Originally Posted by The Batlord
You could always go with some symphonic black metal. Early Dimmu Borgir is pretty sweet. And Arcturus rules. Although their second album just comes off as hokey to me, with those faux operatic vocals.
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Behexen's 'Fist of the Satanist' is quite amazing possibly my favorite non-"avant garde" black metal album. Unexpect's first album is surprisingly a straght black metal album, and not bad. Ulver I quite like, and basically is the closest thing to Arcturus(Ulver isn't as well crafted, but covers much more ground). Dodheimsgard(albeit only 666 International that much), Leviathan, Gojira (Gojira is ****ing incredible), and Behemoth are also favorites of myself.
Albeit, you can tell I really only indulge in later more experimental black metal ala Blut Aus Nord, or where it crosses over to deathmetal, rather than the 'pure' stuff, but still good stuff.