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Ivar Bjørnson & Einar Selvik - Hugsjá

Welcome, as the Goat Old One said it’s great to see Youngblood entering the black metal scene. Morbid and Tormentor are interesting listens if you want to hear what the musicians of Mayhem we’re up to before forming the band. .

Computer generated I guess, but I like the cover art. The music not so much. Generic sing-a-long first track and I gave up half way through.

Welcome. Always good to see new young black metal fans. I get it in my head that it's mostly just us older dudes, middle aged and up who are still into real black metal, so it's really cool to see some Gen-Z kids getting into it. The 'first wave' bands: Venom, Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Bathory and Mercyful Fate are required listening for all new metalheads. Maybe Sarcofago too although they came a couple of years later. You'll get plenty of recos for bands here if you ask, probably more than you'll need. Burzum set the template for that kind of 2nd wave atmospheric black metal. Tons of bands have followed in his steps and operate in the general area of his early 90's stuff. I don't listen to much Burzum myself, but as he's one of the innovators it's understandable for noobs to want to familiarize themselves with the origins of the music they're discovering. I suppose you've gotta at least hear Mayhem, Darkthrone and Burzum to understand the origins of the sub-genre if you're gonna be a black metaller. Probably want to touch base with Emperor, Immortal and Satyricon as well maybe Gorgoroth. These don't have to become your favorite bands but it'll give you an idea of where the genre came from. I'd recommend checking out the origins of the Finnish scene as well. Finnblack is the pinnacle of the black arts, although in recent years Norway has been making a comeback.

SIMP - Sordid Imprecations Meant For Posterity

Xentrix - Shattered Existence

NP: Koitos - En Taida Kuulua Tanne ▶︎ En taida kuulua tänne | Koitos (bandcamp.com) Information on this one is pretty sparse, and I think the archives classify this as hard rock and not metal, which is understandable. I just wanted to know if the singer was the same guy from last years Quasarborn album. Sounds similar, but it seems these guys are from Finnland, and not Hungary. Regardless if you enjoyed that album this one should satisfy.

Hello, here is another song from the upcoming album. It should already be the QQQQQQ version. https://tommusicproject.bandcamp.com/track/01-distance

Hello. Hope you stick around. Texas is home to a few really interesting black metal bands, and of course my personal favorite metal drummer Proscriptor. As far as recommendations it depends on which era of Mayhem we're talking about. There's plenty of bands that changed absolutely nothing from the blueprint provided by De Mysteriis... If you want some all out blitz stuff check Beherit's Oath of Black Blood, and if a little Tolkien muddled in there doesn't bug you check out Cirith Gorgar. Also if it's the high energy stuff you're after it's hard not to recommend some of the more tenured "war" metal bands. It all occurs as a sub-genre of a sub-genre of a sub-genre, but there's definitely some solid stuff to be found. Can't help much with the Burzum stuff as it was never really my area of expertise, but Drudkh is a fair comparison I've heard, although they seem to have had as many different eras as Varg/Burzum.

I saw this forum and thought it looked interesting. I was born in 2008 and I'm a Mayhem fan, I'm checking out some other pioneer Black Metal bands like Bathory & Venom too though. I also like Burzum, I think their Det Som Engang Var album is pretty good. I hope I can increase my knowledge on the history of Metal & find some new bands to listen to while on this forum.

EDENKAISER - Armageddon Overlord

Malum - In Nauseam, Norway 2023 Ossilegium - The Gods Below, Chicago

Druid Lord - Relics Of The Dead

Naxen - Descending into a Deeper Darkness, Germany. Not bad. Ad Mortem - In Honorem Mortis, Germany. Better.

Mare - Ebony Tower, Norway 2018 Duindwaler - In het Heemskerks Duin, Netherlands

Dio - Holy Diver

Piffle tosh

LATE SHIFT - Perception Is Reality

Nah,they got better. Noisy dense dissonant. Everything you hate.

All good. And I'm only half joking. NAXEN - Descending Into A Deeper Darkness. This does not manipulate Thatguy into feeling anything but pumped up and ready to run.

Bolt Thrower - War Master

Uttertomb - Nebulas of Self-Desecration, Chile Vortex of End - Abhorrent Fervor, France 2021

Atlarage - NIHL, Spain 2016. The debut was the only album of theirs I really liked. I wish they'd continued in that direction.

BLACK PYRAMID - Paths Of Time Are Vast