Loads of great bands listed already, here's a couple more I like:

Euronomus, I think I may like that band. Thank you for posting them here.

The only boring black metal I can stand is Burzum and a handful of his clones, notably Drudkh lately.



^^^ this song begins in a manner similar to that of the film "Brick".

I've decided that Botanist is a very lovable band.
One flora-worshipper making songs out of vocals, drums, and a hammered-dulcimer. Awesome. I hadn't even noticed from the songs posted that there are no guitars (and no synth).
He's got a double-album with about 40 short tracks, and the shit never gets boring.

Here's the guy doing an interview with NPR.

Hip Hop Bunny Hop knows his stuff. Though I’m a fan of a lot of the early nineties Norweigan classics but by no means were they the first to create bm as other scenes were developing in other parts of the world as well. Euronymous himself also stated what a big influence acts like Sarco***o and N.M.E were…

Anyways here’s a few more goodies of earlier releases that were ahead of their time…

Epic Czech bm. There’s use of keyboards here but they use them wisely and at the right time.



More weird, thrashy bm madness from Czechs..



Although this video is from ’92 from the “Into the Drape” EP Italian occultists Mortuary Drape had been releasing demos since the mid 80’s.



Tsk tsk… I see no ones posted Bathory yet…




I’ll post some Polish bm vids a little later when I have time as I’ve always felt that this scene was incredibly underrated during the nineties…

It was considered as unnecessary as posting Nirvana in a grunge thread. Everyone who's anyone knows that Bathory are the greatest black metal band ever.

What about bm newbies or other posters who haven’t had the chance to hear the sheer mastery of that song?


Anyhoo, I’ve always been a big fan of Polish bm, perhaps because members (guys like Rob Darken and Capricornus) are often involved with multiple groups. Graveland, Capricornus, Veles, Fullmoon, Infernum, early Behemoth, Ohtar, Dark Fury, Thor’s Hammer, Infernal War, Gontyna Kry, Lord of Evil/War 88 etc. are all decent.

I have more purchased releases of Graveland than any other artist in my music collection. I’m a big fan of both the raw, primitiveness of the early stuff and the newer Hammerheart-like sound but my favourite album is probably their transitional “Following the Voice of Blood”..



Melodic and majestic, yet raw and nasty bm. The Graveland influence is quite obvious here.



A shame only one full length was ever released, one of my favourite bm vocalists ever.



Infernal War have a different take going for a more directly chaotic, militant, punishing sound not that far away from an artist like Ad Hominem.



Fullmoon were also pretty great and took lots of influence from Graveland’s barbaric and almost medieval-ish sound. Forget the silly name, ‘United Aryan Evil’ is among the best demos of all time.

Yikes!

I have always liked Darkthrone better then Bathory!

Their 'peaceville trilogy' ownz all!

Great song, but I think this one is superior. Bathory's first album is pretty much the greatest thing any black metal band ever did.

I see you mentioned Marduk. Definitely a solid black metal band.

I'd also like to mention Naglfar if they haven't been mentioned already.

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