And the best black metal band is...
 

...Agalloch, hands down. Ulver in a close second. Thoughts?

Anyways, the real reason for this thread is I wanted to know if anyone has listened to Agalloch's sort-of side project called Sculptured. Someone told me they were good, but if I am going to stop listening to noise music and noise rock for awhile then there better be a good reason.:D

Sculptured are really good actually. Really melodic and slightly technical death metal with a pinch of jazz. Sort of the inverse of Atheist if that makes sense.

Other contenders for best black metal = Scholomance and Aker****e.

Burzum. End of discussion.

Windir, Drudkh and Enslaved are all better bands.

Bathory, DarkThrone, Emperor, Leviathan, Gorgoroth, Celtic Frost, Deathspell Omega, Nokturnal Mortum are all equally good if not better.

And more melodic stuff-Obsidian Gate, Dissection, Dawn, Borknagar, Sacramentum, Old Man's Child, Samael and Primordial are all good too!

Actually too hard to select 'the best black metal band'.
But overall, I'd say Burzum wins this!
All their albums were good imo :)

EDIT:Btw i love Agalloch too :D Ashes Against The Grain is an awesome album...easily their best work.

Burzum for sure, but Darkthrone and Marduk are evry close. Also Early Ulver

Enslaved for sure. But I don't like black metal at all, so my opinion is kinda not really fair

I will have to check Sculptured out they sound good, Agalloch are supurb also early Celtic Frost is fantastic.

Bathory is really the only band I like.

Darkthrone. Agalloch have a very impressive, beautifully expansive sound, but Darkthrone and their blazing series of albums in the 90's still puts them on top. Celtic Frost, Bathory are great but I consider them too thrashy to considered in the upper echelon.

Emperor is great, their first album was epic for the time.

Celtic Frost is classic.

Still have Agalloch on deck on my 'to-do' list, results pending...

Its hard to make a decision because Black Metal itself has become very fragmented. While a couple of Black Metal bands from the late 80s/early 90s (most notably Burzum and Ulver) have moved their sounds to more ambient, almost psychedelic realms, you still have Black Metal bands that kept the original sound: fast, dark, heavy, high-pitched wailing, and unintelligible lyrics. Bands like 1349, Gorgoroth, Darkthrone and Mayhem that stuck to the guns. Then you have the theatric/Gothic Black Metal bands like Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir. And then there are the newer Black Metal bands (what I like to call Caveman Black Metal) like Agalloch and Wolves in the Throne Room, who seem to have abandoned the old high-pitched wailing for a more Death Metal low growl approach to vocals.

But honestly, when I think of Black Metal, I think Satan. I think burning churches. I think corpse paint and black clothes. I feel more inclined to go with the bands that stuck to the original Black Metal sound, including the original Black Metal band, Mayhem (unless you want to count Venom and Bathory as the firsts).

That's classy.

I actually think its immortal. Yeah call me poser or whatever. blah blah blah

I don't know about best, but my favourite is Sigh.

omg ur such a poseur for lisening 2 immortal! u should lisen 2 Zaaarghginar cuz no one ever heard of them!!!!11!111

I think I'm going to have to agree with Sigh, they're at least one of the more experimental ones.

Cheers to whoever posted that picture of Living Colour. I didn't even think about how the title "Best Black Metal Band" could be misconstrued. Hahaha!

Oh! What about Northern Impaled Moon Forest? The Anal **** Black Metal side project? They had the greatest Black Metal song titles.

DEMO #1 - Impaled Northern Moon Forest
1. Grim and Frostbitten Moongoats of the North
2. Forlorned Invocations of the Blasphemous Congregations of Lusting Goat Sodomizing Sathanis
3. Gazing at the Blasphemous Moon While Perched Atop a Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very, Very Forsaken Crest of the Northern Mountain
4. Bloodlustfully Praising Satan's Unholy Allmightyness in the Woods at Midnight
5. Nocturnal Cauldrons Aflame Amidst the Northern Hellwitch's Prepetual Blasphemy
6. Transfixing the Forbidden Blasphemous Incantation of the Conjering Wintergoat

DEMO #2 - Impaled Northern Moon Forest
1. Masturbating on the Unholy Inverted Tracks of the Grim and Frostbitten Necrobobsledders
2. Awaiting the Blasphemous Abomination of the Necroyeti While Sailing on the Nothernmost Fjord of Xzfgiiimtsath
3. Lustfully Worshipping the Inverted Moongoat While Skiing Down the Inverted Necromountain of Necrodeathmortum
4. Awaiting the Frozen Blasphemy of the Necroyeti's Lusting Necrobation Upon the Altar of Voxrfszzzisnzf
5. Summoning the Unholy Frozen Winterdemons to the Grimmest and Most Frostbitten Inverted Forest of Abazagorath
6. Entranced by the Northern Impaled Necrowizard's Blasphemous Incantation Amidst the Agonizing Abomination of the Lusting
7. Grim and Frostbitten Gay Bar

Haha i just looked them up on youtube. Theyre better then anal **** XD

i wouldnt really even consider agalloch black metal tbh...

Enslaved are my fav.

Living Colour. :pimp:

Drudkh,i believe.But some other contenders (aside from the usuals)...

Shining
Apotheosis
Ne Obliviscaris
Nokturnal Mortum
Carpathian Forest
Summoning
Epoch Of Unlight
Trist (the German Trist)
Sear Bliss
Astriaal
Arcane Necrosis
Behexen
Kroda
Negura Bunget

hmm. I couldn't pick one but my top 3 would be Mgła, Cor Scorpii and Furia.

although Vandöd is also amazing

What album(s) would you recommend by Enslaved? I'm seeing them next week and want to check some of their stuff out.

Immortal kick arse. Pure Holocaust rocks. :nono:

when i see this i think

Mayhem ... tho there prob not the best they got to be in the diccusion

:rofl:

In my humble opinion the best could range from. . .
Blut Aus Nord
Trist
Emperor
An Iranian Black metal band I've misplaced. . .
Forest
Summoning
Bathory
Celtic Frost

Burzum's the immediate assumption, but Blut Aus Nord or Ulver could eventually dethrone Varg.

I'm not a big BM fan, but Khold is ****ing awesome

http://images.encyclopediadramatica....eyfacepalm.jpg

Dinosaur face-palm

dude, it's Ridley from the Metroid games

(It's still a dinosaur.)

haha ok you made your point

=D... I think I know who ridley is. IDK though. Yes I am a troubled humanbeing.

haha don't worry about it, i'm sure someone still loves you

I'd say Vesania, easily my favorite of the genre. Also, Vesperian Sorrow are quite good as well, oh and Tvangeste

I also have to say Gorgoroth