Black Metal!
 

**** Metalcore, **** Deathcore. I'm talking about black metal.
Burzum
Immortal
Darkthrone
Mayhem.
Real, grim, lo-fi aesthetics and a big middle finger to christianity. Post your favourite Black Metal acts, and discuss the music/ movement.

Peste Noire is really good; French black metal that covers a range of styles over four albums (two of which are essentially jokes, purposefully made to sound bad). I would recommend listening to Ballade ****re lo Anemi Francor, or La Sanie des Siècles - Panégyrique de la Dégénérescence, the first album.

Windir is my favourite black metal artist, and even though he didn't make the low fi, anti Christian, juvenile delinquent type of music you're asking for it's definitely worth a listen. Black metal with folk elements, Norwegian. Any album is good, but I recommend Arntor Ein Windir first.

I was going to include samples, but I seem to need to make a few more posts before I can do so. However search up the title track to Ballad ****re by Peste Noire, and Journy to the End by Windir.

And try out Nattestid Ser Porten Vid - Taake.

I definitely agree with the above post, Windir and Peste Noire are both crazy good bands.

Some of my favourite acts lately:
Drudkh (champions of black metal)
Kroda
Altar Of Plagues
Ameseours
Paysage d'Hiver
Mortifera
Alcest
Moonsorrow
ect...

I was going to recommend Alcest's demo Tristesse Hivernale as exactly what OP seemed to be looking for; Alcest had some other good stuff too, but nowadays they (he?) don't exactly play black metal.

Alcest's two LP's are far greater than any black metal.

No lol, don't stupid up this thread please.

Lol, you're the silly one. Shoegaze music is far more introspective than black metal, no matter how atmospheric it is.

I'm silly for discussing black metal in a black metal thread?...

...maybe...(lol, of course not)

Not a big fan of Alcest. Les Discrets do it so much better. And I don't really like Windir either. Atmospheric BM has its place, like with Vhernen and Totalselfhatred's Debut, but a lot of the time you need some ****ed up the ass pregnant with ****ing riffs BM.

That's not to say I don't enjoy Negura Bunget a **** tonne. Drudkh are pretty silly, imho, but I love Altar of Plagues. They really hit their stride with the latest effort.

Maybe music just isn't for you buddy.

This is what's up.

Limbonic Art, Immortal, Mayhem, Dimmu Borgir.

Mayhem
Graveworm
Darkthrone
Diaboli

and who dousn't just adore Gorgoroth

Could anyone recommend some similar artists in the Black Metal genre who are similar to Alcest and Agalloch? I find Alcest's shoegaze/black metal hybrid to be brilliant. I've been meaning to check out Deathspell Omega (idk if their sound is similar to the two mentioned above). Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I'm just starting to listen to them, but Blut Aus Nord might be up your alley if you like shoegaze black metal. They have a very avant-garde-what-the-****-is-that-supposed-to-be kinda style.

I will check them out. What's the consensus on Wolves in the Throneroom?

I've only recently started really getting into black metal, so I have no expert opinion, but i thought that Wolves In the Throneroom were pretty awesome.

Black Sabbath? I love Black Sabbath but they're not really black metal are they?

He's just a spammer attempting to get to 15 posts in order to post some link.

Dimmu Borgir are my favourite black metal band.

Uh oh, prepare for the incoming ****storm!

*sigh*

Oh c'mon, at least I didn't say Cradle Of Filth.

Props for not saying Cradle of Filth.

I actually don't mind Dimmu Borgir. Haven't like plowed through the discog or anything but I've heard some stuff off of In Sorte Diaboli and it wasn't awful. The clean singing on "The Serpentine Offering" is actually pretty cool to me.

Yeah, that's the one thing from Dimmu that I LOVE. The clean falsetto's add so much to the songs.

what about emperor? do you black metal brahs consider them legit?

Im no expert, but I've always been under the idea that Emperor are considered essential black metal

word..

I can respect them for eventually maturing enough to ditch the corpse paint but musically they don't really do anything for me. I take my black metal chased with some other genre of music, definitely not straight.

i like nightside eclipse. as for corpse paint, i never understood its appeal.

While I don't like Varg's views, his music is actually pretty good.

I can't stand Varg's music and his views suck. But for some reason he's incredibly interesting.

Well, I'm not that into Black Metal, but I found his music alright for Black Metal. He is indeed interesting.

i've only listened to Emperor and Darkthrone

both are pretty great

word up!

The whole culture of Black Metal I find to be interesting even though I'm not a big fan of music itself. I've been meaning to watch a documentary called "Until the Light Takes Us" which is a documentary concerning the whole scene in Norway during the early 90's. Darkthrone's "Transylvanian Hunger" to me is old school black metal in a nutshell. Low production value, excessive tremolo picking, and indecipherable screeched vocals.