I need your three essential black metal albums so that I can hear the best of what the genre has to offer.
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Leviathan - The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
>>65699528
>>65699543
>>65699581
My three.
Transylvanian Hunger
Under the Sign of Hell
Battles in the North
weakling - dead as dreams
sacramentum - far away from the sun
absu - tara
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
It's hard to pick just three albums since black metal has a wide Varity.
>>65699592
Good choices for USBM
>>65699468
You can't pick just 3 black metal albums, the genre has such immense variety that you really need to listen to a fuck ton of black metal albums before you get anywhere near a complete picture of it. That said
Die Mysteriis dom Satanas
Filosofem
Pure Holocaust
if you don't enjoy pure holocaust get the fuck off of black metal
>>65699564
if you listen to only one black metal album ever, make it this one.
I really don't get all the love for the Mayhem album. Their demo is much better, and even then I wouldn't give it that kind of accolade.
>>65699770
>if you don't enjoy pure holocaust get the fuck off of black metal
Agreed. Back in the day when my car had a 1 disc CD player, I'd have Pure Holocaust on repeat.
>>65700973
>I really don't get all the love for the Mayhem album.
I think it's the heavy guitars and vocal variety that makes it stand out. Don't agree? Go find me an album that is A) BM B) variety of vocals C) "heavy". It's pretty fucking easy to find some that meet two of these (Arcturus is quintessential A + B) but all 3 is a bit harder.
>>65701151
I can agree on all those accounts, I just don't think it does anything all that well. Variety is fantastic, but the quality of that variety isn't that good IMO.
>>65699468
Top 3
Alcest - Écailles de Lune ( barely bm though )
Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
Peste Noire - L'ordure à l'état pur
Highly recommended
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Dankthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires Circumspice
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
Peste Noire - La Sanie Des Siècles
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II
Hate Forest - Battlefields
Nokturnal Mortum - Гoлoc cтaлi
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness ( barely bm )
Moonspell - Under Satanae
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
Dodheimsgard - 666 International
Shining - Blackjazz
The Ruins Of Beverast - Unlock The Shrine
Burzum - Burzum
Mayhem - DeathCrush
Diapsiquir - Anti
I've been listening to black metal for a long time and my favourites in the genre are:
1. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
2. Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
3. Leviathan - The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide
Grand Declaration Of War
Ugra-Karma
Ravishing Grimness
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Mayhem - Deathcrush (EP)
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Darkthrone - Blaze in the Northern Sky
Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
Blasphemy - Fallen Angel of Doom
Havohej - Dethrone The Son of God
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Profanatica - Profanatitas de Domonatia
Dissection - The Somgerlain
Summoning - Lugburz
Sacramento - Far Away From The Sun
Absurd - Facta Loquuntur
ALSO since I just remembered:
Bathory
Impaled Nazarene - Ugra Karma
Rotting Christ - Passage to Arcturo
>tfw nobody ever posts about satyricon
I know it sucks that they literally sold out but I love some of their earlier albums.
>>65702286
I loved the quiet flute and strings parts.
Filosofem
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Factually the three best.
>>65702327
Dead killing himself before the recording of De Mysteriis is probably the best thing that happened to black metal.
>>65702286
mah nigguh. Satyricon's first album is one of my favourite black metal records, it just perfectly captures that "old & cold" atmosphere that so many band struggle to create. Truly a masterpiece.
>>65702286
>>65702837
Satyricon is one of the most mediocre black metal bands even to date, how anyone would consider their albums great is stuck in the past and is a second wave hardass hipster, because Emperor has them beat in every regard
>>65699468
https://banishedsoulsovforbiddendesire.bandcamp.com/album/hands-full-ov-hate-deluxe-anniversary-edition
this was made by regular lurks in the black metal general thread. its essential.
have three essential melodic BM albums
>Bal-Sagoth - Starfire Burning upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule
>Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
>Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
>>65699528
What's this album? Reverse search gives me 'campfire'.
>>65699468
brujeria - raza odiada
burzum - filosofem
cradlle fith - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
>>65702905
Nemesis Divina is a 10/10 record you goddamn pleb
Not counting first wave bands:
Archgoat - Whore of Bethlehem
Katharsis - 666
Sabbat - Envenom
>>65703373
>brujeria - raza odiada
is this a meme
>>65703138
http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Arizmenda/Desert_Dances_and_Serpent_Sermons/523283
Ulver - Bergtatt
Mayhem - Live in Leipzig
Plaga - Magia Gwiezdnej Entropii
>>65703402
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
>>65703459
let me mexibros have one, bruh
Fyrdung - Hyperborea
Sigrblot - Blodsband (Blood Religion Manifest)
Bilskirnir - Wotansvolk
ulver - bergatt
Darkthrone - Transylvanian hunger
Immortal - holocaust
1. Bruzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
2. Ulver - Bergtatt
3. Negura Bunget - Om
>>65699468
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Q3LeWKYyCQ
There's nothing more KVLT than Darkthrone
Peste Noire - La Sanie Des Siècles - Panégyrique De La Dégénérescence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiJPOKeQ2Yk
I just love Famine vocals, and that melody that goes through all the album is sick. Listen to Dueil Angoisseus, my fave song from this album
Grand Belial's Key - Mocking the philanthropist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEMhvCCVW_8
Fucking GBK is such a riff machine, with some mix of heavy metal and black metal.
Hope you enjoy these albums as me
Nordglanz - Von Helden Und Händlern
>>65702286
Lateposting to say that this is a great album, just not something i would rec to a newbie
How about some melodic black metal like Watain - Sworn to the Dark or Melechesh - Emissaries? That stuff's good but also more accessible.
Some Finnish ("3rd wave") black metal also deserves a mention. At least check out Sargeist's Satanic Black Devotion and/or Let the Devil In.
Also, maybe some more brutal bands to show what the genre is capable of: Swallowed (Fin), Nyogthaeblisz, Blasphemy, etc.
Also...
>>65702934
This album is so dull.
>>65699468
The best answer is objectively:
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Burzum - Filosofem
These 3 albums are all classics of the genre and all represent the epitomes of the important musical qualities which frequently occur in black metal.
PH is the epitome of cold mayhemic blizzard riffs and endless blast beats, creating the "trapped in a snowstorm" effect.
TH as a masterpiece example for the raw lo-fi minimalistic side of the genre.
Lastly, Filosofem epitomizes the atmospheric aspects of black metal by creating absolutely unique and never replicated walls of distorted sound and eerie synths.
quite nice tastes in this thread
check out these:
Falls Of Rauros - The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood
Nasheim - Solens Vemod
Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer
Thorns - s/t
