NokturnalBoredom

Marduk "Dark Endless" vinyl I just bought today. Probably going to throw on Watain after this one.

I actually quit drinking like four years ago. I can't drink and be on psych meds at the same time, the two cancel each other out and then I just wind up getting sick and vomiting. I used to drink 4-6 pints of Miller High Life a night though when I was in my early 20s & occasionally I'd drink Jagermeister. Sometimes if I was slummin' it, I'd drink Cisco or Mad Dog 20/20 or like Mickey's or something but that was toward the end when I realized that I was becoming an alcoholic and quit.

I do miss being able to enjoy good beers though. I think the last beer I drank was Kona Big Wave & I ended up getting sick.

My vinyl collection. Not pictured are the 7". My CD's are packed in boxes in the basement, because there's just no room in the apartment.

Emperor- Nightside eclipse cos its just amazing..

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.

Listen to any Blazebirth Hall stuff?

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.

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.

Oh god, where should I start? The four of us were in my car one day when we were skipping school and there was this snowbird's house who had a circular driveway, and was not yet down for the season.

So we put on Emperor's IX Equilibrium and spent the entire run time of the CD driving in a circle in this guy's driveway at about 30mph. I'm actually quite amazed that we didn't get the cops called on us for that behavior.

Another activity that my best friend and I liked to do, was put on Nokturnal Mortum CDs and then go hit mailboxes with baseball bats from my car. Never got arrested or even found out over that one either. We also used to pick up empty trash cans and bowl them across people's lawns while we were listening to either Nokturnal Mortum, Emperor, or Dimmu Borgir.

We used to smoke a lot of pot, drink alot, sometimes I would take some speed or do some coke... my teenage years were typical suburban metalhead fare: lots of skipping school to smoke pot and watch concert DVDs, lots of going to see bands like Origin, Malevolent Creation, and Exhumed when I got my license and car, criminal mischief, fighting the white-kids-who-wanted-to-be-black, we did a few actions to religious statues/churches (Which I now feel badly about at 35), and we used to go "steeplejacking" (climbing on top of churches to drink/smoke pot/listen to metal) & hung out at cemeteries after dark as well. We were every character of every teenage metal movie ever made rolled into four or five different guys.

Sons... is having its 20th anniversary next year. Expect 50 different color options for the reissues by then.

Yeah it wasn't remarkable but for an Orlando band, it was pretty good. I actually remember it being a lot better than a lot of what was coming out circa 2001, because Nu-Metal was pretty much over by 2002 and then the pop-screamo stuff like Atreyu got big. Songs like "Sunshine" and "Kill Control" are still ones that I play every so often when I'm in my car.

From what I've seen from documentaries and such is that Dead was a really depressed guy and so he would have definitely committed suicide. I'm sure the forensics and detectives would have noticed any foul play.

Yeah I'm the same way: When HHH or Shawn Michaels, Undertaker wrestle I sometimes have an interest in it but most of the time I just pull up the matches on YT. Besides, most of the guys I know have retired anyway (Undertaker is retired now iirc). I stopped watching it right as John Cena started to get over so I missed that whole thing pretty much.

My favorite wrestler of all time is Mick Foley. Dude had more entertaining matches for a guy who was not in prime physical shape then you figured that he'd have.

I was a tight arse, when WWF stopped being shown here on free to air TV I gave up following it. Mostly because our paid services in the early 90's were overpriced and shit, but also because I just found other things to do. They did start putting RAW on here after midnight once a week about a decade ago, and another hour long greatest hits show followed, but neither of them lasted very long. I don't hate it now I just don't pay for a sports service that streams it to me, I do occasionally watch some of it on YT but it's not often. I also prefer the older matches, but that's mainly because I know the wrestlers, about the most modern wrestlers I know are John Cena and HHH and I have no idea if they are still wrestling.

I used to love the WWF when I was a kid, and I still listen to Jim Cornette's podcasts every now and then. I stopped watching wrestling around 2004 though, I lost a lot of interest in the WWF after the attitude era (DX, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Undertaker's Ministry/The Brood, etc). Wrestling has for the most part, at least the WWE, gone "TVPG" now so it doesn't have the same amount of compelling content that it did when I was 13-18. I don't know any of the current superstars, can't get into them, and don't even have TV anyway-- so when I get a bug up my ass to watch wrestling, I watch old matches from the attitude era that I may not have seen.

I had some Cracker Barrel Mac n Cheese and black beans & rice for dinner tonight. I actually don't eat a whole lot of meat and I work in fast food, so I don't eat a lot of fast food either. I do drink a lot of coffee though, I usually drink an iced coffee in the morning and then one when I go on break at work.

Later tonight before I settle in, I'm going to make some ramen with egg, cheese, and green onions. Then probably have some pecan praline Blue Bell ice cream.

Please Kill Me is a great book. Quite enjoyed that one myself.

Yep. Had the cd for years until I did a long overdue purge a while back. Bought it while I was stationed in Italy. Pre-internet and streaming, I acquired a lot of stuff of questionable quality and occasionally hit the jackpot. I remember them being somewhere in the middle. Decent but not remarkable.

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.

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