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Ozzy - Blizzard of Ozz

Bolt Thrower - Honour Valor Pride God damn I love me some Bolt Thrower!! \m/

I should also mention too the role of imitators, whether good or bad, and how they influence the perception of a genre. They come in droves and help to popularize a style of music and to a great extent cement into definition what it means to play a particular style of music by the conscious decision to exploit and replicate certain qualities derived from the originators on a mass scale. For example, if 500 black metal bands deliberately write an album in homage to Transilvanian Hunger, people will naturally begin to associate the black metal sound with Transilvanian Hunger and view it to be the archetypal black metal album whether or nor this is fair or accurate in regards to historical context.

Carnivore - Retaliation

Just make sure you're on top of those Z albums, yeah? In The Absence Of Truth - Isis

Each Individual Voice Is Dead In The Silence - As The Sun Sets I knew there was a reason we were keeping you around.

City - Strapping Young Lad

You've got a pretty good point here. I'm convinced. Yeah, I have to admit I was being a bit cheeky with that post. I guess I should have used more emojis.

22/3/68 - 10/8/93

God damn it. I always miss something, and end up rethinking my "top ten".. It's impossible I tell you! Seriously though, Bloodbath is fucking amazing! \m/

The Dwarves - The Dwarves Are Young and Good Looking

Blood Fire Death - Bathory

Thank you! Historical revisionism drives me crazy, and it seems to only be prompted by the notoriety of the Norwegian scene which mostly did follow Bathory's template. That doesn't mean that other first wave bands weren't black metal, it means that bands from other scenes drew more from Venom, Mercyful Fate, Sodom, Celtic Frost/Hellhammer, Bulldozer, Sarcófago, etc... Norway wasn't the first country to produce black metal as most people seem to think, and even in the second wave, there were scenes all over the world producing lots of black metal that people just seem to forget because they didn't receive press coverage from their extra-musical band antics.

I didn't read every post but from what I did read, I agree with everything that BlutAusNerd said. It was no coincidence that the Norwegian bands all initially played death metal and then suddenly quit; they deliberately strove to to bring extreme metal back to its raw, ugly, blackened roots when they were annoyed with the 'trendy' burgeoning death metal scene; it's exposure, popularity, image, cleaner production. Many of the already-mentioned 80s bands served as major influences but Bathory, in particular, was plagiarized the most; hence why most black metal fans will cite Bathory as the first and only 'true black metal band' of that era but this understanding or lack thereof is akin to a kind of revisionist history.

I'm certainly looking forward to 1755 as well as any future releases but I need to go back and listen to their last couple albums as my recollection of them is vague at best. I purchased the Alpha Noir/Omega White limited edition CD but was disappointed with it at the time of its release. On Alpha Noir, it sounded like Fernando, at times, was blatantly imitating Sakis from Rotting Christ and I found this to be odd and distracting. Extinct didn't really leave a strong impression on me either.

Good luck in surgery dude.

Today is the day I go to the doctor to check on my eye to see when I go surgery tomorrow night is my wrestling show thank you all for in your well wishes and support I appreciate it. Whole lot

I thinking of getting crimson by sentenced and shadows of the last

Ziggy stardust - David Bowie. I got it cover req

Done with 'Cold Heart Forged In Hell' by Anata and I plan to never, ever, play it again. God damn that was frustrating. Now though 'Shores In Flames' by Bathory.

INRI - Sarcofogo Great proto-black metal (joke).

Hey Salmo, do you think there are bands out there that we could define as proto-proto-black metal?

Currently learning Megadeth Hanger 18, been about a week, still a little clunky on the last couple of solos.

Re: Rate the song above you! Now you gotta post a song, for the next person to rate