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02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

The Goat Problem posted:

In recent black metal news, though, I hear the new Darkthrone is kind of poo poo. I haven't heard anything since The Cult Is Alive, and I liked that. Anybody heard the new one?

whoever your source is, punch him in the face

then buy the new darkthrone album

in that order

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02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

brightfield posted:

Wrath of the Weak, Xasthur, Wolves in the Throne Room. Burzum.

i'm sure if you commented on a blabbermouth post with this you would show them all

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

Yes, you all care entirely too much.

In related news, I present to you "Great Moments in Alphabetically Arranged Playlists, Part One"



gently caress yeah

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

beat the bad guys and make 'em sigh
Johnny Cage is not afraid to die

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

It's an awesome album cover, at least. i loved everything up to and including Now, Diabolical, but the My Skin is Cold EP was really boring.

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

I quite enjoyed Det Som Engang Var and Filosofem, and assumed everything else he released was a hairy ballsack. Did i miss anything?

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

Why does nobody like the newer Gorgoroth albums? They're awesome as far as I'm concerned, they're just not as easy listening as the earlier output.

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

Chromaplasm posted:

Question:

What are some criteria that one might use to judge whether a black metal album is good or bad?

It varies a lot from one band to the next. In the case of Gorgoroth, they have a neoclassical thing going on, it's mostly expressive. Listening to a Gorgoroth album, to me, is an emotional journey, and I rate it on how it moves me. The newer albums have great atmosphere, and they never sacrifice the mood/story/concept/whatever to just insert riffs for the sake of being catchy, which they did on some of their earlier stuff.

Edit: in the case of say, Old Man's Child, the entire idea of the music is just to be catchy, so I'd rate it like that. With something like early Satyricon, I'd rate it on both these scales at once.

02-6611-0142-1 fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Nov 21, 2008

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

okay i am trying to track down a band:

there was a short lived thread or subtopic in a thread or something about beloved black metal vocalists, and someone linked a black metal band, french i think? That had absolutely inhuman and awesome shrieking. I recall looking at wikipedia at the time and it said they started out as a NSBM band and moved away from it later, and it may have been a one man project but I'm not sure. The album cover in the youtube track reminded me of black and white plague etchings.

edit: Found it. It was Peste Noire.

02-6611-0142-1 fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Dec 28, 2008

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

On the Satyricon DVD Frost struck me as less-than-sane. I love his work and everything, but he's definitely a weird one.

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

so i just saw satyricon.

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

*sob*

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

Honestly, it was still a good show, their Volcano stuff onward sounds way better live than on an album, and it was fuckloads of fun. I just wish I'd gone in not expecting to hear early stuff.

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

Nazxul finally put out a second full-length album! It's only taken ten years.

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

Well, I love the heck out of the new Immortal, so you can all eat my butt. It's definitely no Sons of Northern Darkness though, it strikes me as another At the Heart of Winter, stylistically.

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

But then, Laveyan Satanism is just kind of a more retarded Ayn Rand so it's all equally bad

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

Plasma1010 posted:

Most people I talk to actually consider Incipit, Twilight, and AMSG great albums just as well as the others.

[citation needed]

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

Why didn't any of you jerk motherfuckers tell me that there was another Ruins album out? I am enraged.

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

I think Kenose holds up really well as a whole.

That Haeresiarchs of Dis band plugged on the last page kind of own, too.

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

Hipsters are all "I enjoy Deafheaven, therefore it's not black metal, it's part of some new different thing, I'm too cool to listen to dorky metal stuff, it's ambient-post-blackgaze or something. This is incredible and revolutionary and bears no resemblance to that lowly black metal plebeian music of old" while metalheads are all "other people enjoy Deafheaven, therefore it's not black metal, it is white metal for the casual poser. I will constantly redefine the boundaries of anything I like to exclude people who have girlfriends"

I don't like Deafheaven's music because I dislike the aesthetic but man, they've really managed to upset a lot of nerds and I respect that

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

A human heart posted:

Hipsters don't actually exist, and 'metalheads' probably don't have the views you think they do.

Here, let me cite my sources:

1. 'some angry posts I saw on tumblr', 2015

2. -

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

Maybe he's trying to position himself in people's minds as the true continuation of Immortal, especially if his new music turns out to be better than Immortal's. He would probably get good publicity out of that paint style since he is in hundreds of memes and stuff, he's very recognizable even outside metal circles.

02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

Did anybody get a screenshot of the Nargaroth guy whining about Lords of Chaos before he deleted it?

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02-6611-0142-1
Sep 30, 2004

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