NokturnalBoredom

Varg Vikernes killed Euronymous (and had a completely bullshit story as to why he did it). I still listen to Burzum. It's entirely possible for bad people to make good music, or for good musicians to do bad things. Eric Clapton got on stage and made a speech about how "I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man" (which was a catalyst for the formation of Rock Against Racism) & everyone still thinks that he's great. Bowie said that "Britain could benefit from a fascist leader" and gave a Nazi salute at Victoria station when he was all fucked up on coke... Bowie is untouchable in terms of his renown in the rock world. So the Dagon is a degenerate, that doesn't mean that the music of Inquisition isn't worth listening to. If people want to show how "virtuous" they are by getting rid of their Inquisition albums, that's their problem. If you know that Dagon is a degenerate and still like Inquisition's music, who is going to fault you for that?

I sorta like them, but Hate Forest isn't the first Ukrainian Band I would go to if given the choice. The stuff I've heard just didn't wow me that much. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't stuff that I really wanted to rock out to either.

Like other people have said, Euronymous signed Sigh to Deathlike Silence. I don't mind them at all, they're weird at times especially because they have that girl playing the saxophone but they aren't bad, just different. I have to be in the mood for them.

I've actually never listened to Mgla. I was told that just like Watain, Marduk and Gorgoroth before them, their live shows were protested and shut down by busybodies, so that makes me want to listen to them that much more. I'm actually looking for Mgla albums now and have found Groza and Mdlosci/Further Down the Nest on HH and am debating putting them in my cart. I was hoping to find Exercises in Futility and Age of Excuse because I heard that those were the best ones, but I'll probably start with the other two.

Where do you think that Black Metal would be right now if Count Grishnackh hadn't decided to murder Euronymous? I feel like the murder of Euronymous set black metal back by about twenty years & believe that the genre would have gotten more respect from the mainstream music press had Euronymous lived to see the release of De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. When Vikernes killed Aarseth, it made black metal seem a lot less credible as a serious artistic movement to a lot of people outside of the movement, sort of like how Gangster Rap had a hard time in the late 90s because of all of the violence surrounding it and the deaths of Biggie and 2pac (I'm pretty sure that the church arsons did not help much either). As a result of this, it was pretty difficult to find black metal CDs when I was a kid. You had to special order them from music stores and then the workers would sort of give you weird looks for ordering stuff by Burzum, Mayhem, Emperor, etc. There was one store in particular where the owner would order me anything that I wanted without question, even though the titles for some of the albums were a bit extreme (Channeling the Quintessence of Satan being one of them that Sam Goody refused to order for me back in the day). I also remember getting in trouble with the school cops for wearing Cradle of Filth and Marduk shirts to school & repeatedly having my backpack searched for weapons to "prevent another Columbine" even though I was friendly with a lot of the normies in my school and they accepted that I simply liked a brand of what basically amounts to rock n roll. I never once considered bringing a gun to school (I didn't have access to one at all). Granted I did do some lame shit to local houses of worship as a teen/Pagan dabbler, but being an adult now I feel very negatively about this because my relationship with religious people got better when I was homeless as a young adult and I realized that the vast majority of them are not bad people and are actually very compassionate to the needy. I feel like had Euronymous lived, that he would have essentially been the Lemmy Kilminster of Black Metal and done a lot to bring credibility to the genre from bullshit rags like Rolling Stone who frequently lambaste the genre (and also consider Pink and Madonna to be "rock" music) and the mainstream industry in general. Unfortunately, Black Metal got the rap as being "that music" because of the notorious actions of The Count and his increasingly ridiculous and outlandish statements while he was in prison. We've been trying to live that image down now since 1993 & only recently it seems that we're getting the credibility that we deserve.

Never even heard of Nuclear War Now, believe it or not. My primary places for metal vinyl is Hells Headbangers (got into them based off of two releases: Nekrofilth's "Love Me Like a Reptile" EP and Acid Witch's "Evil Sound Screamers" and then when I saw that he was an inexpensive place to get Nokturnal Mortum in the states, I began to adore him). Other shop I use on occasion is Osmose, but that's generally to get Graveland, Nokturnal Mortum, Astrofaes, etc and Marduk stuff on color vinyl. I'm going to check out Nuclear War Now today because I'm hoping that they have a copy of my current (un)holy grail, Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk. I am so pissed off that I canceled the order through Amazon because now I cannot find it at all. Like the whole run of the Abbey Road half-speed master pressings has apparently been bought up already which wasn't even my first choice for pressings of the album: I wanted the green vinyl edition that was a reproduction of the original vinyl pressing from 1997 to compliment my blue reproduction of In the Nightside Eclipse. The other Emperors I have are the Abbey Road half-speed master of Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise and a red vinyl edition of Wrath of the Tyrant (which let's be completely honest, it's a bit too kvlt for me but I had to get it because it was Emperor on color vinyl). The record store I usually go to in town is selling the Emperor EP (the one with death on the horse) for $39. Dude was trying to get me to buy it yesterday and I told him that I'm not wealthy enough to be able to pay $39 for four songs, three of which I already have. I'm also trying to find some Lucifugum and the first Batushka album because I like pretty much everything that comes out of Ukraine and Poland, even the Christian/White metal band Holy Blood (which is a Nokturnal Mortum clone with Byzantine Icon cover art but are damn good for being a Christian knock off). I actually import more than I probably should. But I have almost no bills, so it works out.

This is very difficult, but here goes: 1. Burzum - Filosofem 2. Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse BUT POSSIBLY Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, I cannot decide 3. Marduk - Nightwing 4. Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract 5. Nokturnal Mortum - Goat Horns (Had to, sorry) Honorable mentions that I struggled to not put on this list because let's face it, 5 albums is kind of tough Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (it feels kind of cheap to put this album on the main list, as it's essentially THE black metal album even normies think of when the subject is brought up) Dark Funeral - The Secrets of the Black Arts (second black metal album I ever bought) Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast (Not the bullshit 2005 rerecording, the original was amazing with how centered the keys were and how the guitars were pushed to the back of the mix. Very original) Cradle of Filth - Dusk & Her Embrace, Cruelty and the Beast (Cradle of Filth was a black metal band at one point in time) Abigor - Channeling the Quintessence of Satan (under appreciated album) Dodheimsgard - Kronet til Konge (why this band went in the direction they did, I will never understand) Enslaved - Frost Immortal - Pure Holocaust Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky, Under a Funeral Moon, Transylvanian Hunger, Panzerfaust (Can't include one without doing all four) Gorgoroth - Pentagram (Even though I'm not really into Gorgoroth) Graveland - Thousand Swords (It felt cheap to put this & Nokturnal Mortum on the main list) Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane

"Defending the Throne of Evil" was the only Carpathian Forest CD I ever had and I remember it being pretty good in retrospect even if I didn't appreciate it at the time. The only reason I listed "Sons of Northern Darkness" over "Damned in Black" is because Sons has the track "Antarctica" (the coldest place of all!), "In My Kingdom Cold" and my favorite Immortal song ever that my best friend and I used to blast while we played Laser Tag (they used to let you play your own music and we made a black metal CD specifically for our Laser Tag matches): "Tyrants" Damned in Black was like my second choice for an Immortal album, but I had to list two Nokturnal Mortum albums because I couldn't decide between the two of them, although I personally like Verity's cover art more even if it is a blatant rip off of Tiamat's "Wildhoney" I'm a huge Marduk fan but I haven't actually listened to Viktoria yet. I did not put Marduk on there because it's too hard to choose between La Grand Danse Macabre, Plague Angel, & Warschau since those albums are essentials.

Yo, that "The Sun's Journey Through the Night" was great and I'm not usually into that sort of production value. It relaxed me and I fell into sort of a nod for about an hour and woke up feeling all refreshed. Might have to look for that one. I went out and ran some errands and listened to the new Darkthrone while I drove around, it's pretty good and I'd consider buying it too, but I appreciate the fact that you actually knew what I meant when I dropped different bands I listen to on here because Varathron & Rotting Christ definitely have their own sound, as do Nokturnal Mortum and Emperor.

I need some recs. Problem is, there is so much in black metal that is mediocre and I don't want to go spending money on something that I'm not necessarily going to like. I'll list the bands that I'm into and if anyone knows anything that sounds like the following, let me know so I can look for their vinyl on Hells Headbangers. I like stuff like Nokturnal Mortum, Rotting Christ, Varathron, Drudkh, Lucifugum, Emperor, Burzum, Graveland as well as stuff like Witchery, Immortal, Destroyer 666, Nekrofilth, Kult ov Azazel, Marduk, Melechesh, Abazagorath, Averse Sefira, Watain. I even like some more raw, underproduced stuff like Sargeist, Leviathan, Darkthrone (to an extent, they have way too much material for me to keep up with so I don't). My black metal preferences run the gamut from atmospheric, symphonic stuff to more traditionally brutal metal stuff. I don't know if I am into "blackened death" because as far as I know, there is not a lot of death metal that I like aside from Dying Fetus, Cannibal Corpse, Origin, & Malevolent Creation. I'm always on the look out for black metal that I might like, so if anyone knows any bands similar to the ones listed and you want to drop their names and ideally, their best album to start with, I'd appreciate it.

The thing I like about vinyl is both the sound quality, the different color options, and the fact that when you get vinyl you're getting something big and substantial so if it has good cover art you can display it as a nice piece of art. I'm debating buying an In the Nightside Eclipse picture disc just to frame the cover of the album (since I already have a copy on blue vinyl). I have vinyl of all different genres though. Not just metal. I have some alternative rock (Smashing Pumpkins), post-punk & goth (The Cure, Bauhaus, Joy Division), some hip hop (Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, the Roots), Punk & Hardcore (Rancid, Black Flag, Youth of Today, Earth Crisis) and even some Jazz (John Coltrane, Miles Davis) and Country (Neko Case, Johnny Cash). I have them all on an Ikea shelf in my room and I'm rapidly running out of space on it and need to take a trip to Tampa to buy another one.

I have a few that I like but I mostly listen to them on drives and breaks at work. Joe Rogan Experience, the Cold War Vault, Jim Cornette's Drive-thru, Red Scare, The Tim Dillon Show, and there are a few others I listen to as well. I don't listen to them every day, but I usually have a day or so where I catch up on all the episodes that I missed because I am working most of the time and don't have a job that enables me to listen to stuff while I'm working.

Jim Cornette said the same exact thing on one of his podcasts. The worst thing that happened to wrestling was also one of the coolest things to happen in wrestling: Mankind taking that 20ft bump off of the top of hell in the cell against the Undertaker. At that moment, everyone had to try their best to outdo that match and it became less about in-ring technical ability, making it look as realistic as possible, and putting on a good performance as much as it became about who could do the most dangerous stunts and have the most high-spots in a match. Don't get me wrong. I absolutely love Mick Foley & he's probably my favorite wrestler of the attitude era WWF just because he was a normal, unattractive, fat guy who was living the dream & he had no problem sacrificing his body to put on an amazing show; but in doing so he opened the doors for modern wrestling to be guys taking long falls, doing dangerous stunts, etc and Wrestling has never really recovered from it.

Lol, most of what I mentioned are bum wines and malt liquor. The only decent beer I listed was the Kona stuff. The rest of it is close to undrinkable after the age of 25.

I came close to buying that today at the record store, but wasn't sure if it was something that I'd like because thrash is very hit or miss for me. It was a good price, maybe next time.

Now I'm just browsing through Hells Headbangers debating on what I'm going to order, and thinking about how my insurance company wants me to pay $147 for a seven day "starter pack" of a medication called Vraylar, which I'm not going to do and might instead just see about going on Geodon since the Abilify has made me fat.

Nokturnal Mortum "Return of the Vampire Lord/Marble Moon" it's a compilation of some rarities, demo versions, and covers. The cover of My Journey to the Stars (Burzum) and Turisaz (Graveland) are among the high points on the album, along with the cover of the Ukrainians "Cherez Richku, Cherez Hai" (which might possibly be my favorite Nokturnal Mortum cover song)

I only really play old games, like the stuff on the NES, SNES, Genesis, and N64. I have a few old school shooters on my PC (which is where all my games are because I use emulators now instead of original hardware) but I haven't played any contemporary games for a while because I can't. I noticed when I had the original Black Ops that watching the camera movement and the realistic look of the game caused me to get nauseous after like twenty to thirty minutes once I turned about 30 years old, so that precludes me from enjoying a lot of new games. I could probably still play cartoony stuff like Dragon Quest, Zelda, Mario, but the realistic looking stuff with the constant camera movement just makes me sick to my stomach. Like last night? I was playing Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and then went on to play A Link to the Past. I love video games, always will. I just can't enjoy the new ones for some shitty reason due to my eyes/brain.

I don't have enough space to take a good picture of my LPs and shirts. Granted I don't have that many, but it's enough to require a big lens to get a good picture of them and I don't have a DSLR anymore

Burzum, lol

Nokturnal Mortum "Verity" Tiamat "Wildhoney" (They look similar) Pretty much everything ever done by Necrolord (In the Nightside Eclipse, The Secrets of the Black Arts, Storm of the Light's Bane, etc) Rotting Christ "Thy Mighty Contract" & "Non Serviam" Varathron "His Majesty at the Swamp" Emperor "Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk" Darkthrone "Transylvanian Hunger" & "Panzerfaust"

Nokturnal Mortum Emperor/Ihsahn Rotting Christ Graveland Burzum

Water. Like I usually drink. I drink four things on the regular: Water, OJ, Coffee, and Bang I quit drinking when I quit using speed, coke, weed, and everything else under the sun. I've been on a SOBERTOWN USA NO DRUGS ALLOWED kick now for almost five years now and it's been the best decision I've made for myself and my health both physical and mental. Drugs and alcohol do not mix well with psychiatric medications and make it hard for me to hold down a job, so when I was doing drugs I lost a lot of otherwise decent jobs to my habits and landed in the shituation that I'm in now where I'm working a job that I don't really like that much because it's paying well (and because I have a felony that precludes me from better jobs over some stupid shit I said on the internet about a year and a half ago).

Lucifugum

I'm enjoying my two days off from work before I have to go back and do it all over again. Reading up on the 1983 nuclear war scare and how that impacted popular culture at the time, although nobody really knew about it while it was happening. Thinking about going on Hells Headbangers and ordering some more vinyl although I'm not sure what I want to get yet.