I've been looking for interesting metalhead forums on the Internet for a long time, but most of them are abandoned. What about this? by the way, I'm from Russia (Krasnodar), it would be interesting to talk to those from another country 🙂
Well this is encouraging. It's not often we get someone new who will post 5 bands I actually like, most of them black metal. Save Marduk, I've never been a big Marduk guy. Walknut is an ineteresting choice since he only did that one Graveforests album in 2007. But it is a damn fine album. Had to slip a Russki band into his top 5 somewhere I guess ☺️
Hey. You should be able to gain a lot of perspectives from across the globe here. I'm fairly new myself, and that's been my experience. One thing I've learned over my time here is that avoiding purposefully manic posts or truculent behaviors directed at other members is just about the only real unbreakable rule. The forum is certainly not dead by most definitions, and even though you might run into a quiet day or so it's actually kind of nice to have a small more insular population. It keeps threads from spinning off the rails completely, and it avoids some of the consolidation of varied interests that happen across social media. That in and of itself is something I really value. Welcome comrade in any case.
I've been looking for interesting metalhead forums on the Internet for a long time, but most of them are abandoned. What about this? by the way, I'm from Russia (Krasnodar), it would be interesting to talk to those from another country 🙂
I've been looking for interesting metalhead forums on the Internet for a long time, but most of them are abandoned. What about this? by the way, I'm from Russia (Krasnodar), it would be interesting to talk to those from another country 🙂
Top 5 bands? These have been spinning quite intensely as of late:
5. Immortal I’m a latecomer to Immortal. I went back to the black metal roots listening to some Black sabbath, Motörhead, Manowar demo, Hellhammer/Celtic frost, Slayer, Bathory etc.. and after having those bands fresh in the mind Immortal finally hit me and now I think the first three albums are some of the best Norwegian black metal there is. Darkthrone, Burzum and Immortal are still getting active listening out of the Norwegian scene these days. I want to howl out “Cryptic winterstorms” which is an example of a song that got me inspired.
4. Warloghe
Another band in an ever growing list of the Finnish black metal scene. Warloghe sounds particularly cruel compared to many others even within the Finnish scene. The band is almost 30 years old and they only have three full-lengths but that’s not a problem. Quality over quantity is always better. The first album sounds little different compared to the other two and the latest album sounds a little more hmm.. “refined” I guess. I’m not very good at reviewing albums especially when comparing two albums that have very little variety. Anyway, Warloghe is a satanic, cruel and raw sounding band without any flaws and I feel really happy listening to them.
3. Moonblood
I don’t know if I like to listen to Moonblood more than I like the overall appeal of this band. There’s been a set of reissues over Moonblood’s “lost” rehearsal tapes which I have like five of them. It’s like dropping in Vlad tepes or Ildjarn level of poor quality which probably even 90% of those who enjoy black metal would throw the album out of the window after a few minutes. But I am getting inspiration out of Moonblood for my own musical experiments. Currently listening only to those rehearsals. I should get into the full lengths at some point.
2. Graveland
I should say Temple of the Fullmoon really, but Graveland and Rob Darken are the founding factors of this polish group. I’m still not very deep with the history of this group and there’s problems with the politics and all that (there’s problems with the nr 1. as well so I’m getting this away here and now), but none of it takes away the fact that Graveland and the other projects within the Temple of the fullmoon are some of the most inspiring black metal ever created. Other projects I enjoy include Veles, Infernum, Thor’s hammer and especially Legion which has managed to put only one demo out, but the vocals on that demo are something I have rarely heard. It sounds like a grilled peacock coughing in agony.
1. Branikald/BBH
Branikald is best described as the beauty, simplicity and cruelty of nature put together. Cloaked in raw black metal of course. The first albums are very Darkthrone/Burzum inspired, but from the fourth album, Rdyandalir, onward the sound changes into this dream-like atmosphere which really is a nice place to delve into. Rdyandalir is probably the most atmospheric while other albums have more attacking sounding parts or full scale aggressive full lengths, but I don’t think any of the later albums go back to the first three Darkthrone inspired sound. I have four Branikald records: To Kampf, Stormheit, Frost vision (or Blikk av kald or whatever) and Rausch der misatrophie. Out of those four, two albums, Rausch der misathropie and Frost vision get regular plays every week. I am bound to find more Branikald records in the future, especially Rdyandalir at some point.
Just for the record I am not only listening black metal. Other bands I could include are Vomitory, Damnation(POL), Crowbar, Type-O, Black Sabbath, Uriah heep and even some Beatles that have regular plays every other week. But for top 5 I had to go for these five for now.
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