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2 hours ago, markm said:

I've got Pierre Boulez conductor who seems well regarded. Verklarte Nacht is the most peformed-it's very nice. It's a stringed orchestra or quartet depending. That seems to be the usual place to start. Five Pieces for Orchestra next and far some avant garde operatic fare, Pierrot Lunaire. I like some of his choral stuff, but I may be in the minority in terms of enjoying choral operatic. 

Yep, Verklärte Nachte is a lovely piece.  Schönbergs orchestral music is not scary at all.  The choral music will not appeal to everyone.  I like opera though - my wife and I will be seeing Gounoud's  Faust at the movies on Sunday...

This morning  - HORRISONOUS - A Culinary Cacophony, then CREUSCULE - Le Gardien Des Clefs

2 hours ago, Dead1 said:

That's an actual band name?  Hilarious!

 

Bathory - Blood Fire Death

Megadeth - Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good

It about the transistor radio, isn't it?😉

I'll be the first to say welcome.  Just about everything metal is here, but you do have to go looking.

And shameless self promotion, but what the hell.  I will have a listen after work.

Fuck cassettes though.

Earlier GARGANJUA - Through The Void

Right now, STEPHAN THELEN - Fractal Guitar 2

3 hours ago, MarkhantonioYeatts said:

...since WhiteNoise dropped the ball on this last month....

...rather have an all cassette music collection with a super sweet audiophile quality stereo....

...or an all digital music collection with a bullshit Pono music player....

...my apologies and condolences if anyone has a Pono player...

 

 

No-one you need care about has a Pono player...I would go for the latter though, providing I had the means to junk said Pono player and get something better.

But I am not sure I understand this game and if there were only the two choices, then fucking cassettes it would be.

On 6/3/2021 at 12:47 PM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I almost can't believe that I haven't stumbled across this thread yet until just this past weekend. Being a black metal maniac who generally prefers the more modern 21st century stuff over the old 20th century "classics" and also being the ultimate list making fool this thread was made for me. Anyone who thinks all the best black metal has already been made in the 90's doesn't know what the fuck they're talking about. Reading over the previous lists I can see that I have a distinctly different take on modern black metal from everyone who has posted a list here before me, so that makes it all the more compelling to take a stab at this. I'm not even gonna try to rank these in any kind of order and I won't bother trying to limit myself to just 10 because that's just a stupid random meaningless number. I'm just gonna start listing my most cherished 21st century black metal favorites off the top of my head and see where it goes until I get to 13 or 17 or 22 or 36 or however many I come up with, and then I suppose when I'm done I'll stop. There will be no black/death, no black/thrash, no blackened derivatives of any kind, I'm gonna keep this to just straight up no frills black metal.

 

Inquisition - Nefarious Dismal Orations  2007

This is not only my favorite black metal album, but it's also pretty much what I consider to be the absolute greatest metal album of all time right here, it just doesn't get any better than this for me. Doesn't strictly adhere to the classic early 90's Darkthrone template that many of my bm favorites will, but Dagon blazed his own sound and this 2007 album was where he reached the absolute pinnacle afaic. I could list several Inquisition albums here because honestly imo no one does black metal better than they do. Certainly Ominous Doctrines is deserving and really everything else they've put out since 2002 deserves to make my list on its own as well but for the sake of having an interesting and varied list I'll keep it to one album per band.

 

Murg - Varg & Björn  2015

Wolf & Bear. This debut album took me by complete surprise in 2015. Probably my most played album of the last decade. I couldn't get enough of this one when it was new and it is still in heavy regular rotation along with their other two albums to this day. Since we flipped the calendar to 2020 I have often thought about making a greatest metal albums of the 2010's list. And although I have yet to make said list, unquestionably this would be my #1. 

 

Ordinance - In Purge There Is no Remission  2020

This was such an awesome gift last year, from a band who put out an incredible debut in 2014 that flew under most people's radar. Nice to see them bring the heat and manage to top it in 2020. I'd be happy to wait 6 years for any band's 2nd album if this is what they'll deliver. I loved their debut and it would have easily made this list on its own merits, but the follow-up is an absolute riff monster, this album slays from top to bottom.

 

Archgoat - Whore of Bethlehem 2006

I guess we can call this goat metal, bestial black or black/death...whatever you wanna call the Archgoat sound, the fact is no one does what they do better. Saw them live only once at some little shithole bar in Denver, the evil power trio in the flesh and they laid waste. Would have seen them a second time a year ago at MDF but they cancelled that shit and then went ahead and cancelled it again this past weekend so who knows if I'll ever get the chance to see them again. This is by far their best album although nothing of theirs could ever be called bad.

 

 

Cultes des Ghoules - Henbane, ...or Sonic Compendium of the Black Arts  2013

Not your typical blast beat happy tremolo picked affair, they're slower more deliberate and they give me very theatrical feeling, like everyday is Halloween. And they have a thick crunchy nasty guitar tone to die for. Definitely one of a kind, no one sounds quite like these Poles and this is their pinnacle. My buddy says he likes 2016's Coven a little more I think but it's like 2 hours long I either have to go do something else or I'll fall asleep before it's over. This was their masterpiece, the one that put them on the map.

 

 

Martwa Aura - Morbus Animus  2020

Not sure why nobody talks about these Polish black metal badasses. Lot of cool Poilish black metal has come out since the turn of the century, they have become a black metal hotspot and these dudes are deffo one of the better ones. Better than Mgla, better than Deus Mortem, better than Batushka and better than most of the rest as well imo. 

 

 

Megiddo - The Devil and the Whore  2000

This 2000 debut album just makes the millennial cutoff, one of those one man band deals by a raspy voiced Canadian who goes by Chorazaim. All his stuff is very good, just 3 full lengths and a few splits and demos in over 20 years, but this is the best one. Nothing fancy going on here, not a challenging listen or anything, just straightforward mostly mid-paced stripped down black metal with the guitar tone from hell. Works for me.

 

 

Armagedda - Only True Believers 2003

I tend to like my black metal angry, caustic, melodic, riffy and headbanging. These Swedes deliver here on all counts in spades and this has been a long time favorite album of mine. This is the only album of theirs that I can say I truly love but at least we got this one.

 

 

Blodsrit - Helveteshymner  2004

Another Swedish band, this is an absolute bm classic every black metaller should own. As the story goes the album was written by the dude Yxmander after he was fired from a teaching posiition (for being in this band ironically) and understandably in the aftermath he was pissed off at the world, felt life was hell and he was near suicidal. Glad he decided to keep on living and write this album and then 4 more.

 

 

Morrigan - Celts  2003

I LOVE this German band, everything they've ever done has been from fucking great to motherfucking monumental...right up until their final full length in 2013 which totally sucked ass so I pretend t doesn't exist. Unfortunate for a band to go out on a bum note like that but at least we have the first 6 stellar full lengths. Formed out of the ashes of Mayhemic Truth (which is an album worth tracking down) This is the best Bathory worship I have ever heard, they mix the early black metal period with the later viking period and it just works so fucking well, absolutely incredible, I like these dudes even more than Bathory hands down. 

 

 

 

Schrat - Schattenwahn 2011

Discovered these guys a few years ago in 2018 when their latest Alptraumgänger came out, and that album is great. But I did some digging and it turned out this one from 2011 might be even better. I do like the German take on black metal, vicious, riffy and infectious. Patiently waiting for their next album.

 

 

Magoth - Anti Terrestrial Black Metal  2017

This album is just as good to me now as it was in 2017. Sadly their 2018 follow up was not as good. But they're young yet so I have faith they can bounce back and give me another Ani Terrestrial.

 

 

Totenwache - Der Schwarze Hort  2019

Another younger German band, this their debut was immensely good, the EP last year not as good, but still I remain hopeful for what might come next.

 

 

 

Eternity - Funeral Mass  2007

Another largely unknown German band, these guys have been "on hold" since 2012 but this the second of their 3 full lengths from '07 is stunning. A must have for any black metal collection.

 

 

Graven - Perished And Forgotten  2002

Guess I might as well just get all of the Germans out of the way in one shot here. This band is listed as "active" but they put out two full lengths in '02 & '05, this being the former and better of the two, and then they were never heard from again. Perished and Forgotten indeed.

 

 

Rienaus - Saatanalle 2017

Finland strikes again. Rienaus is Finnish for Blasphemy. If someone were to ask me what is the sound I look for in my black metal I might refer them to this record as a good example. Riffy, melodic and harsh as fuck as only the Finns can do it. Mavrofos' vocals are perfect here. This is only their second full length, I hope there will be many more.

 

 

Kludde - In de Kwelm  2019

Funny how with a little distance and a little perspective the albums that end up sticking with you from a given year can be very different from what you might've thought they'd be at the time. This is one of those albums that's grown on me quite a bit over the last 2 years. They released an album in 2008 and then the follow up was 2019. A strange blend of black metal and stoner sludge that somehow works. But don't let that description fool you, they're most definitely a black metal band. 

 

 

Blut aus Nord - Hallucinogen  2019

I probably would have gone with The Work Which Transforms God to represent BAN, but then in 2019 they dropped this gem. This has been a real grower for me. It wasn't even in my top 10 when I made my best of 2019 black metal list, in fact it came in at #24. But if I were to make that list over again now it would be top 3. Love the trippy lead work and it's catchy as fuck, nothing else sounds quite like this album in their catalog, I probably still play it a couple times a month at least.  

 

 

Forteresse - Thèmes Pour la Rébellion  2016

What can I say about these French Canadians? Nothing else they've done prior to this has hit me in quite the same way but this 2016 album was absolutely breathtaking. Majestic as fuck, this album kills. It's been 5 years now, patiently waiting for these Quebecois to put out a follow-up.

 

 

Spectral Wound - Infernal Decadence  2018

Could have chosen the new one as it's still my frontrunner for album of the year this year but their last one is just as good and I'm more familiar with it. Solid Quebecois Noir.

 

 

Monarque - Ad Nauseam  2009

Another one of my favorite Quebecois Noir bands. They can have a bit of a melancholy lilt to them at times but they still bring the heat. This is their best album but all their stuff is good.

 

 

 

Aegrus - Devotion for the Devil  2015

Yeah, we're back to Finland again, can't help it they just have too many killer bands. This is so damn good, better than anything they've done since. Every band can't be heavyweight sluggers like Darkthrone or Inquisition and hit a home run every time at bat. But if every band has at least one really special album in them well this is theirs.

 

 

Havukruunu - Havulinnaan  2015

If you haven't heard this debut album yet you've been missing out. Came blowing into town like a chilly Finnish breath of fresh air in 2015, nothing else sounds quite like it and nothing else they've ever done has been up to the standard they set with this one. So OK looks like we won't get an actual part 2 but god damn this record smokes. 

 

 

 

Odious Devotion - Odious Devotion 2018

Masterpiece of Finnish black metal. Can't get enough of this one since the first time I heard it. Has an atmospheric track in the middle which I think adds to it, if only they could have shit canned the pointelss 2:45 minutes of static they used as an intro track and just started right in with the metal this album could have been 100/100. 

 

 

 

Diaboli - Wiking Division  2015

Love this band, which is really just one lone Finn ex-con named Pete, I find it nearly impossible to pick a definitive favorite Diaboli release as they're all so damn good. I think this one is probably my favorite more often than it's not, although ask me tomorrow or next week and I'll probably have a different title for you, maybe The Antichrist or Kirous. Doesn't matter, any way you look at it you'll need to get them all anyway.

 

 

Tsjuder - Desert Northern Hell 2004

Big, slick, mainstreamy, riffy and OTT but I love this album. The fact that their drummer looks a bit like Krusty the Clown doesn't even deter me from loving this. This album always sounds quintessentially Swedish to me but they're actually Norweigian. DNH never falls too far out of rotation either, hard to believe this record's 17 years old now.

 

 

Darkthrone - Sardonic Wrath 2004

Couldn't not have a Darkthrone album on my list, that'd be unthinkable. Even though I probably like their newer stuff just a wee little better the problem is I really don't really consider what they do to be black metal anymore since about 2006's awesome The Cult is Alive. I do love Darkthrone's much maligned and sadly unappreciated "middle period" as much as any of their phases though. I'd say the middle period consists of everything from '96 Total Death up to this one in 2004. Hard to pick a clear favorite, I do like Ravishing Grimness and Plaguewielder quite a bit too but for my money this is probably the best one from that era.

 

 

 

Owl's Blood - Cold Night of Meditation  2014

A sleeper from out of nowhere, sounds like it's straight from the icy fjords of...Basque Country? You don't hear much about these Spaniards they seemed to have fallen off the map but this album is fucking awesome and I play it a lot still. Sounds so Nordic, I often wonder if they squint real hard if they can almost see the aurora borealis from Bilbao? 

 

 

 

Oath - Saatanan Myrsky Yllä Pyhän Maan  2014

Both of these dudes were in multiple Finnblack projects and they've since disbanded back in '16 after their 2nd album. But this one, their first album, is fire. Love how they get that fuzzy distant production. I know a lot of people like to complain about the intentional fuzzy production a lot of black metal bands employ, but I say fuck 'em if they don't get it. 

 

 

Azaghal - Omega  2008

These Finns have a ton of albums out, one of my most listened to bm bands over the years. This is probably their best effort, I go back and forth between this one and the following one from '09 Teraphim. Finnish black metal is the sweet spot for me in case you haven't noticed, no other country balances melodicism with causticity and brutality better than the Finns.

 

 

Horna - Sanojesi Äärelle 2009

Another legendary favorite Finnish band, formed in '94 they have a shit ton of records out too. Not gonna count up all the splits n shit but altogether probably more than Azaghal. Hard to pick a single favorite as they have so many really good ones. Gun to head I'll pick this one as it's 14 tracks, 85 minutes of catchy badassery, every track a headbanger it just never quits.
 

 

 

Baptism - Grim Arts of Melancholy  2008

Yeah it probably seems like this list is becoming a virtual who's who of Finnish black metal but I can't help it that the Finns are so fucking good at black metal. This band is one of the best to hail from that vodka swilling, sauna sweating, church burning, goat humping land (I'm sure the Laplanders hump their fair share of reindeer too) and this record is fucking sick. The first 3 full lengths really and the Wisdom & Hate EP are all fucking sick, just do yourself a favor, bite the bullet and collect the whole damn set.

 

 

Urgehal - Goatcraft Torment  2006

Always forget that these guys were Norwegian, for some reason I always wanna think they were German. I've always loved this album's opening battle cry: This is Satanic black metal! before they lay waste to my earholes. As previously mentioned here on the board a few weeks ago it all fell apart when Trondr Nefas (guitar vox) died tragically in his sleep in 2012 just two weeks shy of his 35th birthday. Much too young to be taken from us but we still have his music.

 

 

Krypt - Preludes to Death  2008

One and done classic black metal album from these Norwegians. M-A has them listed as active still, but 13 years later we haven't heard another peep from them.

 

 

Hovmod - Doedsformasjon  2019

A younger Norwegian band this is their first and only release so far, and they fucking killed it. Shows me there is still hope that young black metal bands can pick up the torch and keep the black arts going strong for the next generation.

 

 

Nattefrost - Blood & Vomit  2004

Only just dicovered this one a few years ago but holy shit does it fucking rip. This is not progressive or complex or innovative in any way like I'm sure lots of you are probably looking for in your music. It's pretty simple and basic really but it makes my list for pure unbridled fury alone. The unrestrained hateful aggression is a big part of why I love black metal so much, I find it very cathartic. Good for my mental health.

 

 

Hate Forest - Purity  2003

Right from the opening track Domination this one lays it down. These Ukrainians sound like they're pissed off and they mean business. Main man Roman Saenko also went on to form some other Ukranian bands you might have heard of, Drudkh, Rattenfanger, Blood of Kingu...but none of them could ever top Hate Forest.

 

Alright I reckon that's enough for now, I could easily list another 25 albums but I bet no one's even still reading this anymore all the way down here.  But I had fun compiling this list and that's all that matters to me.

 

You call that a list?

Nah, just having a lend of you.  An encyclopaedia of BM.  The unworthy can read it and weep.

Earlier - VIOLET COLD - Empire of Love  - quite uplifting despite the banjo...

Now - BRENDAN BYRNES - 2227 - microtonal instrumentals, light and lovely.

On my run this morning - ORYX - Lamenting A Dead World

Right now - GHOST LODE - Terrestrial Bodies

Couldn't be more different...

3 hours ago, navybsn said:

Everything

Me too...but not usually sleeping.

HORRISONOUS - A Culinary Cacophony

1 hour ago, navybsn said:

I've been trying to get a copy of Nite Flights for years with no luck.

Spirit Adrift - Enlightened in Eternity - I hear people like this band. Never heard of them before but I can see that they could fall in that relatively friendly radio rock category and have wide appeal.

 

Bowie's version of the song is very good but not as good as the original.  I too have been chasing the album forever but without any luck.  I would even break my rules and go physical if I found it.

3 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

I bet you owned at least one of those albums back in the 70's Doc, maybe more than one. What were YOU listening to in 1976? That was high school for me. We all know I'm not the biggest fan of 70's rock these days but going back occasionally to listen to some of those old random songs from decades gone by is kinda like looking through an old photo album at pictures of yourself when you were a teenager. We wouldn't want to go back to those old hairstyles and clothing styles now, but it's still fun to remember and have a laugh.

 

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Off the top of my head in the mid  '70s?  Soft Machine, Yes, Brian Eno, Split Enz first album (the only good one)...and Anthony Braxton.

1 hour ago, MarkhantonioYeatts said:

My first real concert was DAVID BOWIE in 1974....the Diamond Dogs tour...my older brother took me....at the Norfolk Scope....I saw practically every tour after that...76, 83 87,etc,etc....including both TIN MACHINE tours...BOWIE is probably my favourite artist...with IGGY, Nick Cave, Neil Young and John Coltrane not far behind....

...every era of BOWIE is sublime...but I would put the Berlin Period through Scary Monsters as my favourite years....

 

...in Honour of BOWIE....one of his favourite artists...

 

SCOTT WALKER - Tilt

SCOTT WALKER - Bish Bosh

 

 

Now you're talking.  I like Bowie -  but he is mainly for listening with the wife - but Scott Walker was just brilliant.  What voice!

There must have been some good music in 1976, but the Goatmaster has deliberately avoided listing any.

And Aladdin Sane is indeed music for the ages.

VALBORG - Romantik

JUTE GYTE - Helian

Actual songs.

And number five - a baker's four - INDESCINENCE

8 hours ago, zackflag said:

Altarage - Succumb

This band sounds like every song from St. Anger played at the same time. Change my mind...

 

So, I listened and I get what you mean, but how is this a bad thing?

ESOTERIC

ATARAXIE

MOURNFUL CONGREGATION

ILLIMITABLE DOLOR

Fairly obvious choices for me -  a good deal of long winded pretention -  but in a good way.

I'm easily distracted too - this trait kind of makes life wonderful even as it annoys everyone around. My son is the same and he is bloody annoying at times.

It seems that some here may be worthy.  I told yers last week the new ALTARAGE was great. 

Nobody listens to Thatguy.  I think my posts are too refined...

Anchovies are feral.  It is one of life's bad things when you chow down on a good looking pizza and some degenerate has snuck anchovy onto it.

MAKAYA MCCRAVEN - In The Moment.  Jazz so hip that most of you will not be allowed to listen to it.

14 hours ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

You have a better list Doc? By all means please share. I reserve my real listy lists for genres I feel more strongly about.

I meant the list was not of exhaustive length and therefor not up to your usual high standard.  I will have a refined list to add here when I get the time to put my thoughts in order.

22 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Dude wasssupp!!!  I love how your first introductory topic has a classic Marky Mark typo!

 

Thanks for finally signing up, I've only been badgering you unrelentingly for 2 solid weeks. This place is a little different, unfamiliar and hard to navigate at first but it also has it's positives. Nothing's ever perfect but I think you'll find it's more than adequate for our needs. Now if we could only get Jon and Marko here. Take a look around and once you have the lay of the land you can use the activity tab up at the top of the page to see the most recent unread posts. It's an extra couple of clicks but it has deffo made this place navigable for me. Once I found a new app "Global Dark Style" to make the backround dark and the text white the other day I've started to feel much more at home.

I was just about to gripe about the lack of Dark Style.  I will look for the app.

Oh, and glad you made it, Mark.