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Raven_1959:

--- Quote from: Scytale on 04 Oct 2006, 23:41 ---Emperor - "In The Nightside Eclipse" (really good, Ihsahn is another amazing composer)
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If you like Emperor, Ihsahn's solo album is also worth a look.  It isn't completely BM, but what I've heard is still fantastic.

a pack of wolves:

--- Quote from: Misereatur on 05 Oct 2006, 04:53 ---Blut Aus Nord (especially The Work Which Transforms God)
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Seconded, that album's amazing. If the pure BM isn't going down well but you'd like to try something with that sound I'd recommend Teen Cthulhu (think His Hero Is Gone playing BM) and Anaal Nathrakh (they've always sounded a little bit grindcore to me). Neither have the usual BM production values.

But remember, think twice before paying money for NSBM. I like some of that stuff myself, but I'd never want Graveland etc to actually receive money from me. I'd rather rob their nazi asses.

KharBevNor:
I never really got in to Dodheimsgard. Their avant-garde elements have always seemed to forced for my tastes, I may try them again.

Right, anyway, you like Agalloch, so I'll back up that Ulver recommendation, and you'd also probably better check out Woods of Ypres  - Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth (vastly pretentious, but I like it). Scytales list is pretty good, but I think some of the suggestions (Beherit, Judas Iscariot, maybe Burzum) would probably be better appreciated if you'd listened round the genre a bit first. It took me literally years to get into black metal properly, starting with Dimmu Borgir and working upwards. Here's a couple more suggestions, maybe some more mainstream or veering off from black metal a bit, but I think they'll all help you build an appreciation of the whole thing, some EPs in here as well:

1349 - "Chaos Preferred"
Abigail - "Intercourse and Lust"
Aborym - "Fire Walk With Me" and "With No Human Intervention"
Ancient Rites - "Dim Carcosa" and "And the Hordes Stood as One" (An essential live album)
Borknagar - "The Olden Domain"
Carpathian Forest - "Defending the Throne of Evil" and "Morbid Fascination of Death"
Impaled Nazarene - "Suomi Finland Perkele"
Nattefrost - "Blood and Vomit"
Sigh - "Scorn Defeat"
Venom - "Black Metal" (Not really BM, but you've gotta hear it)


And I'd recommend you start with Immortal on 'Battles in the North' and Darkthrone on 'Transilvanian Hunger', but that's mainly taste. Burzum, however, I think you should definitely start on with the self-titled, like, it's just a rule.

Once you get more in to the whole thing, try:

Abyssic Hate - "Depression", "Suicidal Emotions" and the "United By Heathen Blood" split with Det Hedenske Folk
Horna - "Viha Ja Viikate", "Envaatnags Eflos Solf Esgantaavne" and "Sudentaival"
Nortt - "Gudsforladt"
Profanatica - "The Enemy of Virtue"
Vlad Tepes - "Celtic Poetry", "Dans Notre Chute" and the "March to the Black Holocaust" split with Belketre
Xasthur - "The Funeral of Being"


The thing to remember when you listen to black metal is that bands are normally either entirely serious or entirely not serious, and that bands in each category have to be listened to in the way they are intended to be listened to to be truly enjoyed, if that makes sense. Some black metal can be like a religious experience, some is designed to be drinking music. Give each its due, and simply ignore  the really offensive aspects. It's all about the atmosphere.


Oh, and though by all means listen to them, because they do rock, don't actually buy any Nokturnal Mortum records, because they're fucking nazis and funding nazis is bad.

EDIT: Yeah, see above.

Also, this lists probably a bit scarce because I'm in my halls of residence room right now and I don't have my whole music collection with me, this is just from memory. Most if not all the other suggestions are quality though.

Misereatur:
I've been waiting for Khar's post. Anyway, I just remmembered to recommend Dornenreich's Her von welken Nachten. Brilliant avante-grade/melodic BM. I've been listening to that album non stop for like a year now.

valley_parade:
I don't know that I'd call Borknagar black metal anymore, but they are still awesome.

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