And the best black metal band is...

GERD · 04-27-2011, 08:20 AM

I agree that BM's very best days have probably passed, however there is a great deal of quality black metal music being made and I doubt whether the genre will ever become insignificant.
My favourite black metal records are from the early 1990s, when I was in my late teens, but there is still plenty of high quality black metal, particularly from the underground.

hip hop bunny hop · 04-28-2011, 06:29 PM

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Black Metal is hardly approaching irrelevance, this is just more douchebag uberkvlt bull**** every metal forum dip**** is spewing. It has grown in influence in the music world and like any other genre it has allowed a degree of accessibility to seep in during the process.

If you want to point the hipster finger, Liturgy is your band.

How was I being "kvlt" at all? I was advocating the supremacy of the foundational bands that are widely known and respected, not obscure 21st century acts who limit their releases to this number of copies on this outdated format....

Anyways, allow me to rephrase: contemporary black metal is approaching irrelevance.

GERD · 04-28-2011, 07:03 PM

some contemporary black metal is irrelevant.
but not all.

Gregor XIII · 04-28-2011, 07:28 PM

The new Liturgy album is mostly brilliant. Not specifically because it's Black Metal, though. But anyhow, how many sub-genres stay relevant over 20 years?

GERD · 04-29-2011, 06:53 AM

That's a good point.Not many I would think as time moves on.

Gregor XIII · 04-29-2011, 06:39 PM

The thing is, though, that Black Metal-hybrid sort of stuff has been really great these last few years. Stuff like Deathspell Omega, Gnaw Their Tongues, Liturgy, Alcest, even Mt Eerie on Wind's Poem, are in no way 'tr00' BM, but they show how powerfull the genre is, and how the ideas can be used differently. I don't know enough about the original stuff, but I love a lot of this newer stuff. As an influence, BM is definitely relevant today. Probably more than it has been for a long time.

GERD · 04-29-2011, 07:29 PM

Gnaw Their Tongues is downright spooky! I got a free cd with a magazine subscription, that s*** is just spooky.

Gregor XIII · 04-29-2011, 07:33 PM

I know! The last one was so great! But it's as much classical samples as it is anything related to BM.

OccultHawk · 10-28-2019, 12:44 AM

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Originally Posted by GERD

Gnaw Their Tongues is downright spooky! I got a free cd with a magazine subscription, that s*** is just spooky.

Gnaw Their Tongues deserves more love!

Tristan_Geoff · 10-28-2019, 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Gnaw Their Tongues deserves more love!

Agreed.

04-28-2011, 07:28 PM	#74 (permalink)
Gregor XIII Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: San Diego Posts: 57	The new Liturgy album is mostly brilliant. Not specifically because it's Black Metal, though. But anyhow, how many sub-genres stay relevant over 20 years? __________________ Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur + thoughts on women in Akhmatova and Mizuguchi: The Centrifugue

04-29-2011, 06:39 PM	#76 (permalink)
Gregor XIII Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: San Diego Posts: 57	The thing is, though, that Black Metal-hybrid sort of stuff has been really great these last few years. Stuff like Deathspell Omega, Gnaw Their Tongues, Liturgy, Alcest, even Mt Eerie on Wind's Poem, are in no way 'tr00' BM, but they show how powerfull the genre is, and how the ideas can be used differently. I don't know enough about the original stuff, but I love a lot of this newer stuff. As an influence, BM is definitely relevant today. Probably more than it has been for a long time. __________________ Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur + thoughts on women in Akhmatova and Mizuguchi: The Centrifugue

04-29-2011, 07:33 PM	#78 (permalink)
Gregor XIII Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: San Diego Posts: 57	I know! The last one was so great! But it's as much classical samples as it is anything related to BM. __________________ Agnes Varda's Le Bonheur + thoughts on women in Akhmatova and Mizuguchi: The Centrifugue

04-27-2011, 08:20 AM	#71 (permalink)
GERD Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: North East England Posts: 72	I agree that BM's very best days have probably passed, however there is a great deal of quality black metal music being made and I doubt whether the genre will ever become insignificant. My favourite black metal records are from the early 1990s, when I was in my late teens, but there is still plenty of high quality black metal, particularly from the underground.

04-28-2011, 07:03 PM	#73 (permalink)
GERD Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: North East England Posts: 72	some contemporary black metal is irrelevant. but not all.

04-29-2011, 06:53 AM	#75 (permalink)
GERD Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: North East England Posts: 72	That's a good point.Not many I would think as time moves on.

04-29-2011, 07:29 PM	#77 (permalink)
GERD Music Addict Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: North East England Posts: 72	Gnaw Their Tongues is downright spooky! I got a free cd with a magazine subscription, that s*** is just spooky.