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NokturnalBoredom

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  1. Acid Witch is amazing, but they're definitely not black metal. Their slower, chugging, Sabbath-like riffs stand in direct contrast to the manic pace/tremolo picking of a lot of black metal bands. Even slower black metal, more atmospheric stuff, isn't anywhere near to Acid Witch. The fact that you mentioned them though, makes me want to put on my "candy corn vinyl" copy of Evil Sound Sceamers as well as the fact that it's October.
  2. Nokturnal Mortum's "twilightfall". It is so radically different than everything else that they put out, that black metal fans might not like it because it's essentially a doom metal album, but it's high on my list of great albums specifically because it was so different than what they started doing on Lunar Poetry, Goat Horns, To The Gates of Blasphemous Fire, etc. If you haven't listened to it, I highly recommend giving it a chance even though it's technically a demo (as is Lunar Poetry). You might be surprised by what you hear even if you're not a fan of Nokturnal Mortum's other work.
  3. Darkthrone made "Transylvanian Hunger" which is arguably the best & most famous black metal t-shirt of all time... 😉 I've owned my fair share of Darkthrone CDs, starting with Hate Them in my senior year of high school but the one that I'm really interested in getting on vinyl LP is Soulside Journey. I know, I know... it's not black metal but neither was Nokturnal Mortum's Twilightfall and that is one of my favorite albums of all time. I could also see myself shelling out money for A Blaze in the Northern Sky but the big problem I have with Darkthrone is that their output is simply too high for me to really be able to get into them deeply. Seriously, Darkthrone has more albums than most bands I am into and I haven't listened to even half of them yet due to how prolific Darkthrone has been in the area of studio albums. If I don't have something on vinyl, I find it difficult to really carve out time to listen to it.
  4. 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.
  5. Not a lot of people seem to know Arallu or Abazagorath, which surprises me because they both did some pretty interesting things like the former mixing Middle Eastern music with black metal and the latter writing a concept album that seems to lift ideas from Salman Rushdie's controversial novel "The Satanic Verses". I mean, I don't know if either of these bands are not well known (Arallu has some music videos on YouTube) but I actually can't think of any real obscure bm bands off the top of my head aside from two LPs I own: No Sun Rises "Ascent/Decay" and Jotnarr "s/t", the former being more along the lines of post-rock influenced bm & the latter of which sort of mixes like powerviolence/real screamo with bm elements. I got these two both from an independent record label that used to be based out of my area.
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    Books?

    William Gibson's "Sprawl trilogy" (neuromancer, count zero, mona lisa overdrive) are books that I just recently got into a couple of years ago and they're great if you're into the whole cyberpunk thing. I like Sci-fi so the Dune novels are definitely on my list. I'm also into recent history, so I have a great book called "The Berlin Wall: A World Divided" that I have read twice already because the Berlin Wall and former Eastern Bloc fascinate me, but it's history so it's pretty dry at times. I'm also into punk rock and hardcore, so "Please Kill Me" and "American Hardcore: A Tribal History" are also books that I've read. Unsurprisingly, "Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult" by Dayal Patterson was a fascinating and informative read for me when I got it as a gift last Christmas.
  7. I'd have to say Burzum and that's a recent phenomenon for me. I did not used to really listen to Burzum until I bought the double LP of Burzum/Aske last year. I had known about Burzum and everything since I was younger and read Lords of Chaos but I never really sat down and listened to it or got an appreciation for exactly what he was doing until I bought Hvis Lyset Tar Oss a few months ago, and then I immediately went and ordered Filosofem and really got into Burzum through that trilogy of albums. Mayhem on the other hand, I never really got into for whatever reason. I think it's because the first Mayhem album I heard was A Grand Declaration of War rather than De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (A seminal black metal album that I surprisingly do not own), and I was put off by where I had started, so I never really went back and listened to Mayhem after that. Varg Vikernes is nuttier than a Christmas fruitcake, but it has to be said that he created some of the best black metal of all time. I'm not really sure exactly how he pulled it off either, because he doesn't seem to have that much musical talent or ability on the surface, having seen some of his YouTube videos.
  8. Well it's actually a hard question for me: I prefer Marduk (and am listening to the double live LP Warschau right now as I type this out) but one of the first black metal bands I ever got into was Dark Funeral when I saw The Secrets of the Black Arts in a Sam Goody and it looked like everything I was into (Necrolord cover in dark blues/purples, guys with corpsepaint in each corner of the back cover). I get a lot of heat from my buddy and fellow metaller for defending Dark Funeral, but unfortunately I have never seen any of their live performances that were going on down here back in the day. The Secrets of the Black Arts will always have a special place in my heart though, even if I lost a lot of interest in Dark Funeral after discovering Marduk in my senior year of high school
  9. I don't tap my feet, I'm an air-guitar man myself. I can play air-guitar the way Ihsahn plays a real guitar and I have a great time doing it when I'm listening to my LPs.
  10. I've been listening to metal since I was a young teenager and just recently found this forum. Interested in discussing all things metal (particularly black metal), so I made an account and am posting here. I'm a vinyl collector and have a decent amount of metal, hardcore punk, crust, and even jazz LPs. I'm from Florida (at least for the next year or so, as we are planning a move to upstate NY). I play bass as a hobby, but not seriously enough to have any sort of projects or have been in a non-garage band. Favorites bands: Mercyful Fate, Nokturnal Mortum, Marduk, Rotting Christ, (older) Iced Earth, Nekrofilth, Sleep
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