Death Rotisserie posted:

Darkspace - Dark Space III is out and it's the best BM album I've heard thus far this year. Ambient as hell but there are some loving killer riffs in here; totally unexpected.

Avant Gardening posted:

there's samples of it on here: http://www.aquariusrecords.org

i was worried that this was going to be a gimmick, but it's excellent. for being another bedroom bm act it is somehow incredible and new.

Morbid Florist posted:

I just got the Gorgoroth Live in Krakow dvd. It's loving GREAT. The sound quality is better than all of the albums they're playing songs from. It's good enough you'll want to rip the audio. I only wish it was recorded after Ad Majorem so I could have seen Sign of an Open Eye live.

Absolutely a must for any fan.

Qu Appelle posted:

When not listening to BM (or other M, for that matter), I like listening to classical and folk music - especially 'world' music, though I despise that term. But, I do like listening to things like Sami yoiking, Tuvan throat singing, and the like.

But my favorite local radio station is definitely the Classical one.

Gvaz posted:

Sometimes when I'm feeling bad, I'll listen to music that follows my emotions. That's when I'll listen to dreary sort of music. For whatever reason, the ambient tracks on Filosofem are really good in that regard, because if you're just relaxing and listening to that, you can focus on the bleakness of the simple beats. (That sounds gay but whatever.) Anyways that's my 2 cents.

SammyWhereAreYou posted:

There was a time when if you were a metalhead and you listened to anything BUT metal, you would get mercilessly teased. I mean, you could listen to the classic rock precursors to metal but that was about it. In 1988, if you had long hair and a denim jacket with a back patch of the Kill 'em All album cover on it (which I had), you absolutely could not admit to also liking, say, Depeche Mode.

I'm really loving glad that this has changed and people that listen to BM can talk about listening to trance and CPop without being called a massive human being.

Death Rotisserie posted:

You caught the Chicago show? How was the indie pop band that opened for them?
http://www.myspace.com/wallydogger
I can't completely say that I can't believe these guys were supposed to open for Watain, but ugh what a complete non sequitur.

Not Very Metal posted:

Heh, I haven't heard Annet, so I believe this is a "pickle."

Anyway, here is the interview on Blabbermouth, and the documentary you mentioned is here.

Morbid Florist posted:

You live in Iraq? Wow. This may not be the place for it, but what's THAT like?

deltawing posted:

Where you stationed in Iraq?

I was in Fallujah.

On topic, Vladimir from Mirrorthrone and various other projects is an absolute genius.

Qu Appelle posted:

Hrm.

Well, it appears that Peter Beste's photo book, True Norwegian Black Metal, is now out of print at Amazon. I ordered a copy last month at Barnes and Noble (truly the most chain bookstore out there), and I will hopefully be getting it in the next week or so. Now, B&N are showing it as Out of Print on their website; I hope I still get my copy. I did see it still listed as 'Available' through Borders.

Just a heads up, in case anyone else out there was interested in picking this up.

Halo posted:

I haven't read the thread entirely and I have some ideas of where to look already, so I am throwing this question out there for myself and anyone with similar taste. Very specifically, what should I listen to that is very much like Emperor or Leviathan? Those are really the only two black metal artists I am very into right now.

Baron Von Ghoulosh posted:

Kaiho posted:

The mouth harp is the new fuzzy guitar in black metal.

Seriously, when will someone bring steel drums into the genre?

Kaiho posted:

Dark Medieval Times.

That is all.

het posted:

It depends a lot on what music she currently likes.

Clothes Optional posted:

well you guys just hate everything don't you

02-6611-0142-1 posted:

so i just saw satyricon.

mother north, forhekset, nothing off dark medieval times, nothing off shadowthrone.

*sob*

Morbid Florist posted:

I swore Filosofem started with an F

lordblytzkrieg posted:

In the vein of ICS Vortex with Dimmu Borgir you might wanna check out the song, "The Insight and the Catharsis." He single-handedly makes that song amazing. Also check out "The Kings of the Carnival Creation," he sings some really awesome parts in that one as well.


I don't think Dimmu has ever been considered "real" BM. They've always had symphonic elements with harsh vocals.

AgentJotun posted:

Filosofem is great, all you have to do is stop the CD 10 minutes into Rundgang (or chop it down into a 10 minute track) and you got yourself a cool album.

No need to tinker with Hvist Lyset Tar Oss however....

Morbid Florist posted:

I got tipped off to a pretty good band put together by Iscariah and Kvitrafn, Dead To This World. I guess they're not really new but it looks like their only album came out late last year. I sure hadn't heard of them and I don't remember seeing them mentioned here yet.

This is blackrock how it should be done. Satyricon take note.

http://www.myspace.com/deadtothisworld

aliencowboy posted:

Check out "Philosophy of Winter" by Forest Silence. I wouldn't go so far as to call it ambient, but the spacey sounding keyboards certainly make it nice and relaxing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9-7z96ECBM

deltawing posted:

Everything from In Defiance and on is very similar, if you ask me. Maybe your tastes have changed? I dunno, Vermin and Slaves are very similar and In Defiance isn't too deviating from those two at all.

When you get to pre-Defiance is when poo poo starts sounding different.

deltawing posted:

Slaves of the World > Vermin, IMO, and I was a HUGE Vermin fan. Slaves of the World is more interesting and has more hooks. I dunno, it's loving great, definitely check it out!