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I'm still digging all of these new albums from recent months. All music of the blackish variety. Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory and Injury Aosoth - An Arrow in Heart Batillus - Concrete Sustain Koldbrann - Vertigo
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My suggestions would be: Altar of Plagues- Teethed Glory and Injury Aosoth- Arrow In Heart Antediluvian- Logos (listening to this now and there are new things to appreciate every time. Amazing black/death record) Acherontas- AMENTI Horna- Askel Lähempänä Saatanaa Summoning- Old Morning's Dawn Deafheaven- Sunbather Rotting Christ- kata ton daimona eaytoy Skagos- Anarchic (personally found everything on this record other than side A pretty disappointing, but worth a look anyway) Sadhaka- Terma (members of Fauna playing more riff orientated BM as opposed to the ambient stuff Fauna do so well) Fell Voices- Regnum Saturni (If you can handle the "wall of noise" production values on this you'll probably like it. You do have to strain to hear the riffs though) Ash Borer- Bloodlands (only an EP, but they seem to have returned to the rawer sound that made their s/t so good in my eyes.) WTC also put out a compilation of Sargeist rarities if they're your kinda thing. There's actually been more black metal worth hearing than I thought so far this year. If you missed out on Fauna- Avifauna at the end of last year, go back and get it asap if you like ambient black metal, I think it's amazing. Bolded the albums I've enjoyed the most of those. Hope you find something you like. Nothing yet compares to Mgla or Luna Aurora from last year for me. If anyone has any black metal recs from this year in the vein of either of those albums, I'd lap it up.
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Jun 26, 2013 14:59
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Listen to Insane Vesper's Abomination of Death
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Jun 26, 2013 19:22
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nomapple posted:If anyone has any black metal recs from this year in the vein of either of those albums, I'd lap it up. You might like the Thaw s/t. Check the second track. Feels pretty Blut Aus Nord. I'm also fond of the new Woe album
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Jun 26, 2013 22:36
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I recently kinda fell in love with this band. It's pretty much perfect black metal, as far as my tastes are concerned. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFf59hFNA00 Fuckin German black metal, man.
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Jun 27, 2013 07:41
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Smekerman posted:Fuckin German black metal is usually terrible, man.
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Jun 27, 2013 14:41
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You forgot a little "heh" at the end, to truly prove to me how superior your musical taste is. Pretty ridiculous statement, though. The bulk of German black metal is no worse than black metal from any other country. They have a much higher ratio of awesome bands, though, especially in the progressive/avantgarde black metal department.
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Jun 27, 2013 17:01
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There has never been an awesome progressive/avantgarde Black Metal band so I guess Germany got problems!
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Jun 27, 2013 17:49
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Give me an example of a progressive black metal album that you've heard and why you didn't like it.
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Jun 27, 2013 19:07
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Smekerman posted:Give me an example of a progressive black metal album that you've heard and why you didn't like it. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person alive who likes Ved Buens Ende's "Written In Waters" so there's one album for someone to consider not enjoying.
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Jun 27, 2013 21:51
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Vulich the Subtle posted:I'm pretty sure I'm the only person alive who likes Ved Buens Ende's "Written In Waters" so there's one album for someone to consider not enjoying. Apparently not, since it has an 89% average with 9 reviews on Metal-Archives. I've never heard that album, I should check it out. Thanks for recommending it (sort of). I should probably explain that I wasn't categorizing progressive/avantgarde black metal as one genre, the slash was supposed to stand in for an "and". My mistake. I think progressive and avantgarde black metal are pretty separate genres and some people can like one genre and hate the other. I took RHTITE to say that there has never been a good prog bm OR avantgarde bm metal ever made, though, which is pretty bullshit imho.
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Jun 27, 2013 22:38
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I wouldn't consider it even close to black metal or right for this thread at all, but they're German and a flavor of metal- The Ocean - or the Ocean Collective as well. Aeolian and Precambrian are two of my favorite albums of any band.
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Jun 27, 2013 22:46
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Rauhnacht are Austrian, not German as I thought, but they are pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzyYdvbkW-Q I like that angry tree guy a lot.
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Jun 27, 2013 23:55
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There's plenty of good german black metal, it's just that the "big" names have got absolutely no material to match their reputation, or haven't produced a good album in over a decade. But that's no different from most countries' output. I mean if you don't like any of the four albums Pest put out, you simply don't like black metal.
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Jun 28, 2013 01:04
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As far as German black metal goes I enjoy Pest quite a bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV4Oh57UTBg Also, if Austrians count then Totale Vernichtung is pretty good if you don't mind a little crypto-fascism in your BM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3J2TcI-C2M Speaking of German things, I don't know if I've posted about Minenwerfer in this thread before. They're from around where I grew up (Sacramento, not Germany), but they write songs about the First World War from a German perspective so I figure they're somewhat related.
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Jun 28, 2013 01:06
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RHTITE posted:There has never been an awesome progressive/avantgarde Black Metal band so I guess Germany got problems! Blut aus Nord. Checkmate  Memoria Vetusta and The Work Which Transforms God are near-flawless.
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Jun 28, 2013 02:06
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Gamma Nerd posted:Blut aus Nord. Checkmate Blut aus Nord are French. Which doesn't negate your second statment.
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Jun 28, 2013 08:20
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So leaving the prog/avant black metal discussion aside for a bit, what does everyone think of the new Arckanum? I actually really like it for the most part, it has some loving dirty riffs. It's almost thrashy/punky in parts. I'm not overly fond on the ambient-ish parts, but eh. It's not like there's a lot of them I guess. Then again, I guess I kinda missed the album between this and THTHTHTHTHTHTTetc., so I should probably give that a listen, too. It seems that the overall internet grim black metal warrior opinion is cooling for Arckanum, though, since all reviews of Fenris Kindir I've read have been pretty negative so far.
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Jun 28, 2013 09:45
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I rediscovered Spite Extreme Wing today and that made me happy, but they've also split up and that makes me sad, so I want to find something similar to this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcmgmKknv_A
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I've been listening to a lot of Drudkh lately, and I was looking for some recommendations based on that. Are there any other bands that mix a folk style with black metal, except with Nordic folk (I prefer Scandinavian folk over Slavic folk)?
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Smoking Crow posted:I've been listening to a lot of Drudkh lately, and I was looking for some recommendations based on that. Are there any other bands that mix a folk style with black metal, except with Nordic folk (I prefer Scandinavian folk over Slavic folk)? Arkona (though that's Slavic), Ulver's first 2 albums, Nydvind, Windir, and Negura Bunget (also Slavic).
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Smoking Crow posted:I've been listening to a lot of Drudkh lately, and I was looking for some recommendations based on that. Are there any other bands that mix a folk style with black metal, except with Nordic folk (I prefer Scandinavian folk over Slavic folk)? It's neither Nordic nor Slavic, but maybe take a look at Agalloch if you haven't already.
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Latest Cultes Des Ghoules is so loving good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1MNW1w_cvQ That's the last track from Henbane and probably my favourite. But I highly recommend grabbing this thing, going in blind and listening to it properly start to finish. As far as black metal goes this is the best poo poo I've heard in ages. And some others I've been listening to lately: Panphage, Mgla, Plaga.
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Smoking Crow posted:I've been listening to a lot of Drudkh lately, and I was looking for some recommendations based on that. Are there any other bands that mix a folk style with black metal, except with Nordic folk (I prefer Scandinavian folk over Slavic folk)?
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het posted:Moonsorrow seems like an obvious one, though I'll be honest that I wouldn't know what your distinguishing characteristics between Scandinavian folk and Slavic folk would be. Åsmegin comes to mind too though I dunno how black metal they are (though it's an obvious influence) Moonsorrow straddles folk / melodic death pretty well, but all category discussion aside they're loving magnificent anyway.
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Smoking Crow posted:I've been listening to a lot of Drudkh lately, and I was looking for some recommendations based on that. Are there any other bands that mix a folk style with black metal, except with Nordic folk (I prefer Scandinavian folk over Slavic folk)? Sorry, more Slavic folk, but Nokturnal Mortum, Temnozor, and Kroda all make excellent music (The Voice of Steel is one of the best albums of the last decade, so yeah). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Bm_cNkt1g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkRP2l3HORM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLsoNZvzg4U
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Jul 1, 2013 17:30
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Negura Bunget is the best Romanian-folk influenced band you may have missed. 'n Crugu Bradului is their best work. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQdG2zbzusc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKoghLdIB9g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmXkG4Kcu6k http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOfL3Tvd6dM
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Oldstench posted:Negura Bunget is the best Romanian-folk influenced band you may have missed. 'n Crugu Bradului is their best work. I'd say OM is better honestly. Also I recced Negura Bunget already but who cares, they deserve exposure.
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Jul 1, 2013 18:27
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Gamma Nerd posted:I'd say OM is better honestly. Didn't see that - my bad. Om is very good, but I just find myself listening to 'n Crugu Bradului more.
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Jul 1, 2013 18:42
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I got to open for Negura Bunget when they came stateside a year or two back. I usually don't enjoy this kind of folky, atmospheric stuff live as much as I do when I listen to the recordings, but they put on a great show.
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I wish I had been able to see Negura Bunget live when they put out their good stuff  OM is an incredible album, I should probably check out the other one mentioned in this thread too. I wish Blood Music would hurry up with the OM reissue and the Nightbringer vinyl as well! They always do an amazing job.
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Jul 1, 2013 21:19
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The new DØDSFALL album, Djevelens Evangelie, sounds rather promising.  
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Vulich the Subtle posted:I'm pretty sure I'm the only person alive who likes Ved Buens Ende's "Written In Waters" so there's one album for someone to consider not enjoying. the gently caress dude. VBE is massive man I've heard way more positive reactions than the opposite
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Oldstench posted:Negura Bunget is the best Romanian-folk influenced band you may have missed. 'n Crugu Bradului is their best work. Martolea
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Oldstench posted:Negura Bunget is the best Romanian-folk influenced band you may have missed. 'n Crugu Bradului is their best work. Sauska posted:Martolea You guys mispelled Dordeduh. Martolea is pretty good, but I don't feel his songwriting is quite there yet. His last album was pretty drat good, though, it had some pretty old-school sounding poo poo sometimes (like Vine Muma Padurii). My main problem with it was that it just wasn't very consistent. 'n Crugu Bradului was pretty drat good at the time it came out, but I can't get over Negru's loving drumming. It's so loose and off sometimes. Also, Hupogrammos' clean vocals were poo poo at the time - totally off key. Thankfully they're used pretty sparingly. Despite all my gripes, IIII is a pretty loving awesome atmospheric black metal track. edit: this song is loving awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFewjwTMDjM
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Jul 6, 2013 03:34
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Here's Taiwanese Black/Folk/Symphonic Metal band Chthonic covering We Are The Champions for the opening of Taiwan's professional baseball league, because apparently one of the teams has a bunch of metalheads. It's not the best cover ever, but it's a pretty interesting thing to happen. You'd never see a black metal band opening the MLB season in America, that's for sure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlWqA22ut9M
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Jul 10, 2013 01:30
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So I bought myself a candle in Bergen, Norway the other day.
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Jul 14, 2013 11:20
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And the commercialisation of black metal grows ever stronger... Man, I'm going to listen to some of the best and pretend the current crap doesn't exist.
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Jul 15, 2013 00:12
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Apparently Altar of Plagues has decided to break up:quote:Altar of Plagues will conclude this year. I'm pretty bummed. I had hoped that the next album would use more of the style they played on The White Tomb et al.. Still, I can't say that it's not a respectable decision. Better that than to become the Morbid Angel of post rock/black metal crossover.
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Varg Vikernes has been arrested in France on suspicion of planning terrorist activities. Seems like the French police have been reading Burzum.org-articles. They believe he is a Breivik-sympathizer and that he and his wife are stockpiling weapons. I feel bad for their 3 young children.
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