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  1. Horns
    Balor given a Damn from NokturnalBoredom in Thoughts on metal and negativity   
    I don't think their stuff is too hard to get in the US, as their record label has a US distro: https://shopusa.season-of-mist.com/catalogsearch/result/index/?p=1&q=drudkh
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    Balor gave a Damn to Thrashman in Your Artwork   
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    Balor gave a Damn to NokturnalBoredom in Was it really necessary? (Burzum "From the Depths of Darkness")   
    He has electricity because he makes really cringey videos where he tries to argue that he's not a White Nationalist and he's got a computer and obviously electricity to power synths for his more recent offerings, but his house looks like a shithole. There are panes of glass missing on the windows, it's actually really depressing to see what his life is like & I was kind of shocked when I first started watching his material. One time he showed a royalty check and it was for like $6000 US, but that many people cannot possibly be buying Burzum albums and merch because Burzum is not really the easiest black metal to listen to (Easier than Darkthrone, but still). I know that I have like five albums and a shirt, but he sells shitloads of different merch-- backpacks, mugs, hats, shirts-- all sorts of stuff emblazoned with the word Burzum and art from the albums. He's also written some kind of dry books about paganism. I had three of them and then ordered another one for my buddy one Christmas because he's a guy who likes Burzum specifically because of the notoriety.

    I just don't know how he is able to support himself off of any of that unless he's got a really high-royalty deal for both his merch and his albums. He's got to do something else, or be getting welfare from the French government (which would be abjectly fucking hilarious to me, but I doubt it).
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    Balor gave a Damn to NokturnalBoredom in Thoughts on metal and negativity   
    Aren't the majority of Drudkh's lyrics just taken from poems by Taras Schevchenko and other Ukrainian poets? Like they don't even write their own lyrics is what I mean, they just take poems that were already written and put them to music?

    I currently have a Drudkh album coming in the mail: A Furrow Cut Short. I'm really looking forward to it getting here.
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    Balor gave a Damn to AlSymerz in COP26   
    Eradication of the human race is the only way because neither side has the answers, they think they do but both side can conveniently ignore their own problems and focus primary on the the other side.
     
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    Balor gave a Damn to NokturnalBoredom in Was it really necessary? (Burzum "From the Depths of Darkness")   
    I honestly do not know. I have not listened to Belus or Fallen, so I cannot make a judgment call on either of them. A lot of me wants to say that the post-prison albums were a cash grab and a capitalization on his notoriety for the sake of making money, but then I remember the Thulean Perspective videos where he essentially says that he lives a survivalist lifestyle in rural France with his wife and however many kids he has. I guess he still gets royalties off of the Burzum albums but he can't possibly be selling that many that he is able to support himself off of the royalties alone.
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    Balor gave a Damn to MacabreEternal in How it is to quit from metal?   
    There's a huge sense of drama to the is thread that points to some underlying problems.  I mean if you have stepped away from metal and your friends have turned away from you then it strikes me that they weren't good friends in the first place.  Taken at face value your posts suggest you were sick of your life given the theatre around the language you used (guessing English isn't your first language though so may appear more dramatic then you intend).
    But it sounds like you're happy with your musical tastes now and you should never feel bad about evolving your listening habits.
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    Balor given a Damn from NokturnalBoredom in Albums You Love With Artwork You Hate   
    Who thought that was a good idea? Was this ever even considered good animation?

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    Balor gave a Damn to NokturnalBoredom in Horror Films   
    The thing about Gummo, is that it's both remarkably pretentious (like the absolute worst of Wes Anderson) and shocky at the same time. Generally because it was made by a pretentious hipster asshole who "ironically" likes black metal, and that type of person I have no patience for. It's not so much a proper movie as it is a series of vignettes about poor white people that are tied together by a very, very loose narrative that they are inhabitants of a town called Xenia, Ohio that was hit by an F5 tornado and "never was the same afterward". You get to see Chloe Sevigny's boobs, skinheads slap boxing in their kitchen, and a freaky looking kid eating spaghetti in a filthy bathtub... with a piece of bacon taped to the wall. It's a lot of stuff like that, where you can tell that the pretentious hipster asshole director was just doing stuff to "shock" or weird people out. There is a lot of black metal in the movie and it opens up with the song "Dragonaut" by Sleep, but it immediately gets bizarre and goes for the "tasteless" thing right away.

    It was a big movie in my circle of friends when I was a lot younger, because we knew the type of people that the movie is portraying since we live in Southwest Florida. I sold the DVD years ago though, because it's one of those movies that you put on and drink beers or smoke pot while you're watching it and quote the dialogue as you watch it and say "Hey that reminds me of (name of someone you know)". It's definitely a weird movie, but I noticed in retrospect that it's more of a movie that hipsters like to tell one another that they've seen. It's not really a movie that anyone really likes, because there isn't much to like in it. Come to think of it, it reminds me a lot of like a CKY movie, just for pretentious hipsters who live in Brooklyn so they can feel better about not being poor white people who live in the South or Midwest. It sort of comes off like a documentary in parts, but everything in it was staged as far as I know save for the locations that they used to shoot it (the scene with all of the roaches in the house notably). It is supposed to be about Ohio but was filmed entirely in and around Nashville, TN and it shows... not saying anything bad about Tennessee though, because I personally like Tennessee and would move there if there was work that would pay me enough to be able to afford a decent place to live and not a shit shack.
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    Balor given a Damn from NokturnalBoredom in The Movie Thread   
    I think that part one was better than the sequel, and it was pretty shocking how graphic this one got.  I am still not entirely convinced that the new It movies are better than the 90s tv version.
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    Balor given a Damn from NokturnalBoredom in WHAT ARE THE TOP 3 THINGS PEOPLE LOOK FOR IN A NEW METAL SONG?   
    There is a new KPN album out, incidentally!
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    Balor gave a Damn to NokturnalBoredom in What is the best black metal shirt of all time?   
    I was trying to get a new Burzum shirt because mine is tattered and torn, so I thought about getting the Filosofem shirt but they only seem to sell it in 2XL and that's way too big for me. The other reason I wanted it was because it was white and I don't have any white band shirts anymore.
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    Balor given a Damn from NokturnalBoredom in What is the best black metal shirt of all time?   
    The Burzum Hvis... shirt is fantastic!
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    Balor gave a Damn to NokturnalBoredom in Horror Films   
    I like it. It's one of the only movies I ever put in my Netflix queue when they still sent DVDs to your mailbox.

    Gummo I had on DVD because I'm a fundamentally deranged person and felt a sort of sympathy for the characters because I live in Florida and actually know a lot of incredibly poor white people who live in the kinds of conditions that are shown in that movie. The fact that it had a soundtrack with Sleep, Brujeria, Burzum, Absu, Nifelheim, etc made it that much more pertinent of a movie to me.
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    Balor given a Damn from NokturnalBoredom in Greatest Album Openers   
    "Dunkelheit" - Burzum (Filosofem):
    One of the most essential and atmospheric songs ever produced by Burzum (or any other bm band in general).  An absolute classic.
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    Balor gave a Damn to NokturnalBoredom in Intro Riffs.   
    I actually checked out TheMetalDetektor and was able to find the edition of Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk that I've been hunting after for ages (dark green vinyl). Granted it cost me $52 but I just got paid today, so no harm no foul. Probably going to be the last album I buy for a little while as I am running out of ideas for albums to get and need to start checking out new bands.
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    Balor given a Damn from NokturnalBoredom in Intro Riffs.   
    Blazebirth Hall was a collection of Russian bm bands that was around for a while in the 90's.  I can't say that I am an expert on them, but they originated the sound that bands like Drudkh/Hate Forest picked up on.  I usually only hear good things about them.
    https://www.metal-archives.com/labels/BlazeBirth_Hall/3260
    I second this.  It works really well for US buyers.
    Also, NWN is a solid distro.  I ordered from him before, and would recommend him for anyone into war black/death metal.
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    Balor gave a Damn to FatherAlabaster in Intro Riffs.   
    Check out themetaldetektor.com - they're a search service that gives you a list of all the prices and different versions of whatever album you're looking for, with links. I've wound up ordering lots of albums from random small shops around the country that happen to have what I'm looking for, or have better prices for particular things.
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    Balor gave a Damn to Sheol in Intro Riffs.   
    For what it's worth, Nuclear War Now has a pretty giant online store, and many of the record labels usually have a US store. Or you could do what us Europeans do and bite the bullet and pay extortionate shipping and VAT fees 😂
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    Balor gave a Damn to NokturnalBoredom in Intro Riffs.   
    No, I'm actually not as well-versed in black metal as one might think. I only know like two handfuls of bands, but they're bands that I'm really into... a lot and own multiple records by. I don't get to buy a lot of black metal because I either have to A) Import it from Osmose or B. Order it from Hells Headbangers as the local record stores don't carry a whole lot of black metal. I'm actually getting ready to make an excursion down to the one record store that sorta carries black metal to pick up a remaster of Watain's Rabid Death's Curse and possibly Dimmu Borgir's "Spiritual Black Dimensions" (Because what the hell, I'm still 17 at heart, right?) but if he has Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk or Burzum's From the Depths of Darkness, I'll leave Dimmu Borgir where it's at.

    I'm honestly not even sure what Blazebirth Hall is, but I'm assuming it's an Eastern European label like Oriana music (Which being Nokturnal Mortum's label, is one of my favorites). My bands are: Emperor, Rotting Christ, Immortal, Burzum, Goatmoon, Melechesh, Arallu, Graveland, Nokturnal Mortum and the bands that surround them like Munruthel, Dub Buk, Hate Forest (kinda... not really sure whether I like Hate Forest or not), Lucifugum, Astrofaes, Kroda. Khors, Batushka so on and so forth. I'm Ukrainian-American so I'm big into the Polish/Ukrainian scene and don't care that much for USBM although there are a few bands I like domestically: Averse Sefira, Abazagorath, Kult ov Azazel (homestate heroes), Black Witchery (another Florida band), Panopticon (doing the same thing Nokturnal Mortum did but with Appalachian folk music).

    I listen to a lot of different genres of music: Hardcore (Youth of Today, Shelter, Earth Crisis, Strife) Punk (Rancid, Black Flag, (old) AFI), Jazz (John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck), Hip Hop (Common, Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, Fugees) and even some Country (Neko Case, Neil Young, Johnny Cash, John Prine). I have like 200 different LPs and about 50 7"s and it skews heavily toward hardcore and crust because getting my hands on black metal is somewhat difficult as I have to import almost everything that I want or order it from a distro (I have a green and brown swirl copy of Nokturnal Mortum's Goat Horns in the mail now) and most of my disposable income is spent buying records because I eventually want to open up a record store as a free time hobby business when we move to upstate New York in another year or so. Then there's your standard/crossover metal that I like from Hells Headbangers the label like Acid Witch, NUKE, Nekrofilth, Vaultwraith, Nunslaughter, etc.

    There is a lot of black metal that I could be buying on Hells Headbangers, I just don't know if any of it is worth buying. I'm looking at a clear vinyl album by a Belarussian band called "Veitah" now because they supposedly sound like a cross between Burzum and Drudkh, but I'm not sure if I want to drop the $20 on it yet.
  21. Horns
    Balor given a Damn from NokturnalBoredom in Intro Riffs.   
    Listen to any Blazebirth Hall stuff?
  22. Horns
    Balor gave a Damn to NokturnalBoredom in Intro Riffs.   
    Drudkh is the shit, I need to get some of their vinyl. I've realized that I'm very biased toward Ukrainian bands and I blame a lot of it on being Ukrainian-American, but the other part of it is that the Ukrainian bands are just plain good. I don't think I've ever heard a Ukrainian Band that I didn't like. Hate Forest came close to being a band that I wasn't into, but I'd still pick up a Hate Forest album if I could find it in American Dollars for cheap.
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    Balor given a Damn from NokturnalBoredom in Intro Riffs.   
    But the techno/electronic intro was pure genius!  It gave a totally unexpected atmosphere to the ep, making it extremely unique.  To me, it was one of the highlights of Deathcrush.
    Another intro that I really like is the acoustic guitar track at the beginning of Drudkh's Autumn Aurora.  Mixed with recordings of nature, the repeated, folky/ambient riff captures the essence of the end of summer, and perfectly introduces the season of Autumn (which the album paints a picture of).  And the return to the same riff in the final track of the album provides a nice frame for the album as a whole.
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    Balor gave a Damn to NokturnalBoredom in Peste Noire   
    I hear people talk about Peste Noir all the time, I just can't seem to get into them for whatever reason (even though that doesn't make sense really).

    I mean, I've listened to individual tracks by them before. I can see how people would be into them, but they just don't seem to really move me at all & I have no real valid reason as to why.
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    Balor gave a Damn to Serpentboi1992 in Peste Noire   
    my favorite album of their's. i especially love tracks 6 and 7
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