BlutAusNerd

Yes, I know it well. I live in Sandy, UT, Park City is just a short drive north and then east through Parley's Canyon, only about 30 minutes away. The canyon can be a bitch in a snowstorm, but I've always liked the drive up there. That's where they hold the Sundance Film Festival and hosted a lot of our Olympic events, so it has a unique vibe to it. Most of the locals are granola hippie types, and the other properties are owned by wealthy business people who vacation there, so it's a weird and kind of snobby dynamic, but there are lots of good places to eat. The scenery is gorgeous all over northern Utah, but that area in particular is great. The neighboring towns of Midway, Heber, and Kamas are just as lovely, but aren't as frequented by tourists, so they feel a bit more rural by comparison.

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Sounds righteous. One of these days, we'll have some of those high ABV beers together my friend.

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When your Great Dane thinks he's a lap dog...

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A lot of Goth sprouted up from post punk, so there is a punk connection and a bit of a grey area with the early bands. It makes sense in a lot of ways.

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When your Great Dane thinks he's a lap dog...

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Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

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Lots of killer material there.

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Paul is totally into conspiracy theories and quantum physics, so when they played that song live, he said after it concluded "that song wasn't actually as long as you thought. You've just experienced time dilation." [emoji851]

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I've got some time to spare, so I guess I'll do another round.
 
Sykdom - Under Krigen:
Sykdom is a newer Norwegian band that seems to be flying under the radar of most. That's not to say that there's anything revolutionary going on with Under Krigen, but the band does seem to have a good sense of what the Norwegian black metal sound is all about, with some strong melodies to offset the mid-paced riffs. While not reinventing the wheel, I can hear plenty to draw in fans of Satyricon, Gorgoroth, Ulver, and the like.
Tartaros - The Grand Psychotic Castle:
Despite Charmand Grimlock playing live keyboards for Emperor on their famed Empyrial Live Ceremony album/DVD/tour, very few seem to be familiar with his work outside of the band. He handles all instruments and composition in Tartaros, and while this is technically the same genre as Emperor in that period (symphonic black metal), this is quite a different animal. Some might find this to be a bit too campy and cheesy, but I absolutely love how this sounds like a black metal haunted house attraction. It just oozes with drama, symphonic grandeur, and spooky horror. He has a lot more room to stretch his influences here than he would have in Emperor, with even some electronic elements making their way in, but I would think that any symphonic black metal fan or gothic metal fan that might allow themselves to crack a smile really needs to give this a listen. I guess you could take it seriously if you want to, but it's a lot more fun to experience this like you would a haunted house and just have a bit of fun with it.
Tearstained - Nightmare Visions:
I don't think anyone would ever accuse Tearstained of being the most professional of metal bands, especially when factoring in the often amateurish vocals and lyrics, but I personally have a hard time arguing with anyone combining prime Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, and Bathory for just about any reason. Mikael is handling everything himself here, as many other black metal bands have, which is a difficult proposition and not one that everyone is capable of handling. Sometimes his reach exceeds his grasp, so I can't fault anyone for not getting into this, but I enjoy throwing it on when I'm in the mood for some first wave worshiping black metal. 
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise:
There will always be deniers and detractors from progress out there who think that the glory days of black metal are behind us, but honestly, it has to be hard to see anything but what's behind you when your head is wedged up your ass. Seriously, consider how much black metal had to evolve to get to the second wave point that these people want to cling to forever. Was it supposed to stop growing and evolving? Not as far as I'm concerned. Thantifaxath is one such band pushing the genre forward to exciting new horizons, building upon the foundations set before them and blazing new trails into the unknown. Some parallels can be drawn to the likes of Blut Aus Nord or Altar of Plagues, but Thantifaxath is really off in a world of their own. This is the kind of thing that gives me hope for the future of black metal, and shows us that there is always more to explore.
The Abyss - The Other Side:
The Abyss is a side project of Hypocrisy which featured all of the same members in different roles than in their main band. Despite being all of the same people, this avoids sounding like Hypocrisy playing black metal, and rather embodies a similar sound that is fairly typical of mid-90's Swedish black metal. This alternates between the more brutal blasting assaults of Marduk or Dark Funeral and a more melodic mid-paced style that has a bit more in common with the Norwegian scene from the time. All in all, it's a pretty solid listen, and it's too bad that they wouldn't continue with the band after two albums. 
The Black - The Priest of Satan:
The Black is another one of those bands that nobody would have heard of if not for a connection to a pretty well known musician in the scene. This is still a pretty obscure album, but it has made it into the hands of a few because Jon Nodtveidt of Dissection handles the vocals and guitars here. This is a great deal more raw and less complex than Dissection, but its "less is more" approach is actually pretty damn satisfying. Nothing world shattering here, but a great album for fans of Dissection or raw black metal to hear. 
The Royal Arch Blaspheme - The Royal Arch Blaspheme:
For those of you on the search for rotten and blasphemous sounding black metal, The Royal Arch Blaspheme is the answer to your... well, not prayers, I suppose... Anyway, this is truly some grisly and violent sounding black metal from Neil Jameson of Krieg and John Gelso of Profanatica. Thankfully, this is much more in line with the Profanatica side of USBM than the less interesting blasting style that we're accustomed to hearing from N. Imperial's Krieg, but this seems a bit more mid-paced and deliberate overall. The sound is still harrowing and filthy though, despite the clean production and tight performance, and would honestly appeal just as much to fans of raw death metal and war metal as to USBM fans. 
The Ruins of Beverast - Rain Upon the Impure:
The Ruins of Beverast might very well be my favorite black metal band of the modern era. Started by Alexander Von Meilenwald after the dissolution of his prior band Nagelfar, The Ruins of Beverast plays an extremely dark, gloomy, and personal form of atmospheric black metal with lengthy compositions that have a way of seducing you and drawing you into their bleeding arms. The band would incorporate more doom and death metal elements as they went along, and the atmosphere often coincides with the despair and mourning of funeral doom metal, but always in a way that is distinctly theirs. Every one of their albums are breathtaking, and they're easily the heaviest live band I have ever seen in my life. Stop what you're doing right now and hit the play button on this link, then buy all of their albums. You won't regret it.
Thorns - Thorns:
Thorns is the band of the infamous Snorre Ruch, who is most well known for driving Varg to and from the scene of the murder of Euronymous. Prior to this, he had recorded some demos as Thorns and Stigma Diabolicum, which were not only excellent, but also highly influential upon the nascent Norwegian black metal scene, before joining Mayhem on guitar. After his release from jail, he hooked up with Satyr to create this album of very forward thinking and industrial influenced black metal that is a lot like Satyricon's Rebel Extravaganza, but much better. That's not to say that I don't like that album, but this is head and shoulders above it to me. Hopefully there will be a followup one day, but if this is the only Thorns full length that we are left with, then I can't complain. 
Treblinka - Crawling in Vomits:
Before they became the mighty Tiamat, one of the earlier extreme metal bands to transition to exploring the still new territory of gothic metal, the band was known as Treblinka. Despite being named after a concentration camp, the band doesn't have any affiliation with Nazi ideology, but they did have a pretty classy and well arranged first wave black metal style that made them underground legends. The track above is from their first demo, but is more concise and better performed than what many of their peers were doing at the time. This is a cult classic, and a must have for first wave black metal fans, or anyone who thinks Bathory was the only Swedish black metal band of the 80's.

I've got some time to spare, so I guess I'll do another round.
 
Sykdom - Under Krigen:
Sykdom is a newer Norwegian band that seems to be flying under the radar of most. That's not to say that there's anything revolutionary going on with Under Krigen, but the band does seem to have a good sense of what the Norwegian black metal sound is all about, with some strong melodies to offset the mid-paced riffs. While not reinventing the wheel, I can hear plenty to draw in fans of Satyricon, Gorgoroth, Ulver, and the like.
Tartaros - The Grand Psychotic Castle:
Despite Charmand Grimlock playing live keyboards for Emperor on their famed Empyrial Live Ceremony album/DVD/tour, very few seem to be familiar with his work outside of the band. He handles all instruments and composition in Tartaros, and while this is technically the same genre as Emperor in that period (symphonic black metal), this is quite a different animal. Some might find this to be a bit too campy and cheesy, but I absolutely love how this sounds like a black metal haunted house attraction. It just oozes with drama, symphonic grandeur, and spooky horror. He has a lot more room to stretch his influences here than he would have in Emperor, with even some electronic elements making their way in, but I would think that any symphonic black metal fan or gothic metal fan that might allow themselves to crack a smile really needs to give this a listen. I guess you could take it seriously if you want to, but it's a lot more fun to experience this like you would a haunted house and just have a bit of fun with it.
Tearstained - Nightmare Visions:
I don't think anyone would ever accuse Tearstained of being the most professional of metal bands, especially when factoring in the often amateurish vocals and lyrics, but I personally have a hard time arguing with anyone combining prime Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, and Bathory for just about any reason. Mikael is handling everything himself here, as many other black metal bands have, which is a difficult proposition and not one that everyone is capable of handling. Sometimes his reach exceeds his grasp, so I can't fault anyone for not getting into this, but I enjoy throwing it on when I'm in the mood for some first wave worshiping black metal. 
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise:
There will always be deniers and detractors from progress out there who think that the glory days of black metal are behind us, but honestly, it has to be hard to see anything but what's behind you when your head is wedged up your ass. Seriously, consider how much black metal had to evolve to get to the second wave point that these people want to cling to forever. Was it supposed to stop growing and evolving? Not as far as I'm concerned. Thantifaxath is one such band pushing the genre forward to exciting new horizons, building upon the foundations set before them and blazing new trails into the unknown. Some parallels can be drawn to the likes of Blut Aus Nord or Altar of Plagues, but Thantifaxath is really off in a world of their own. This is the kind of thing that gives me hope for the future of black metal, and shows us that there is always more to explore.
The Abyss - The Other Side:
The Abyss is a side project of Hypocrisy which featured all of the same members in different roles than in their main band. Despite being all of the same people, this avoids sounding like Hypocrisy playing black metal, and rather embodies a similar sound that is fairly typical of mid-90's Swedish black metal. This alternates between the more brutal blasting assaults of Marduk or Dark Funeral and a more melodic mid-paced style that has a bit more in common with the Norwegian scene from the time. All in all, it's a pretty solid listen, and it's too bad that they wouldn't continue with the band after two albums. 
The Black - The Priest of Satan:
The Black is another one of those bands that nobody would have heard of if not for a connection to a pretty well known musician in the scene. This is still a pretty obscure album, but it has made it into the hands of a few because Jon Nodtveidt of Dissection handles the vocals and guitars here. This is a great deal more raw and less complex than Dissection, but its "less is more" approach is actually pretty damn satisfying. Nothing world shattering here, but a great album for fans of Dissection or raw black metal to hear. 
The Royal Arch Blaspheme - The Royal Arch Blaspheme:
For those of you on the search for rotten and blasphemous sounding black metal, The Royal Arch Blaspheme is the answer to your... well, not prayers, I suppose... Anyway, this is truly some grisly and violent sounding black metal from Neil Jameson of Krieg and John Gelso of Profanatica. Thankfully, this is much more in line with the Profanatica side of USBM than the less interesting blasting style that we're accustomed to hearing from N. Imperial's Krieg, but this seems a bit more mid-paced and deliberate overall. The sound is still harrowing and filthy though, despite the clean production and tight performance, and would honestly appeal just as much to fans of raw death metal and war metal as to USBM fans. 
The Ruins of Beverast - Rain Upon the Impure:
The Ruins of Beverast might very well be my favorite black metal band of the modern era. Started by Alexander Von Meilenwald after the dissolution of his prior band Nagelfar, The Ruins of Beverast plays an extremely dark, gloomy, and personal form of atmospheric black metal with lengthy compositions that have a way of seducing you and drawing you into their bleeding arms. The band would incorporate more doom and death metal elements as they went along, and the atmosphere often coincides with the despair and mourning of funeral doom metal, but always in a way that is distinctly theirs. Every one of their albums are breathtaking, and they're easily the heaviest live band I have ever seen in my life. Stop what you're doing right now and hit the play button on this link, then buy all of their albums. You won't regret it.
Thorns - Thorns:
Thorns is the band of the infamous Snorre Ruch, who is most well known for driving Varg to and from the scene of the murder of Euronymous. Prior to this, he had recorded some demos as Thorns and Stigma Diabolicum, which were not only excellent, but also highly influential upon the nascent Norwegian black metal scene, before joining Mayhem on guitar. After his release from jail, he hooked up with Satyr to create this album of very forward thinking and industrial influenced black metal that is a lot like Satyricon's Rebel Extravaganza, but much better. That's not to say that I don't like that album, but this is head and shoulders above it to me. Hopefully there will be a followup one day, but if this is the only Thorns full length that we are left with, then I can't complain. 
Treblinka - Crawling in Vomits:
Before they became the mighty Tiamat, one of the earlier extreme metal bands to transition to exploring the still new territory of gothic metal, the band was known as Treblinka. Despite being named after a concentration camp, the band doesn't have any affiliation with Nazi ideology, but they did have a pretty classy and well arranged first wave black metal style that made them underground legends. The track above is from their first demo, but is more concise and better performed than what many of their peers were doing at the time. This is a cult classic, and a must have for first wave black metal fans, or anyone who thinks Bathory was the only Swedish black metal band of the 80's.

I've been on here for several years, and while it doesn't have anywhere near MA's traffic, it doesn't have anywhere near the level of trolling or childish bullshit either. There's a small, but cool collective of regulars and a good vibe, and I know that you have good taste, so I think you'll be a great fit with us.

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Deströyer 666 - Phoenix Rising

Gearing up for the show tonight, should be a blast. I'm going to need it after today.

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Ripping Corpse - Dreaming With the Dead

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I've got some time to spare, so I guess I'll do another round.
 
Sykdom - Under Krigen:
Sykdom is a newer Norwegian band that seems to be flying under the radar of most. That's not to say that there's anything revolutionary going on with Under Krigen, but the band does seem to have a good sense of what the Norwegian black metal sound is all about, with some strong melodies to offset the mid-paced riffs. While not reinventing the wheel, I can hear plenty to draw in fans of Satyricon, Gorgoroth, Ulver, and the like.
Tartaros - The Grand Psychotic Castle:
Despite Charmand Grimlock playing live keyboards for Emperor on their famed Empyrial Live Ceremony album/DVD/tour, very few seem to be familiar with his work outside of the band. He handles all instruments and composition in Tartaros, and while this is technically the same genre as Emperor in that period (symphonic black metal), this is quite a different animal. Some might find this to be a bit too campy and cheesy, but I absolutely love how this sounds like a black metal haunted house attraction. It just oozes with drama, symphonic grandeur, and spooky horror. He has a lot more room to stretch his influences here than he would have in Emperor, with even some electronic elements making their way in, but I would think that any symphonic black metal fan or gothic metal fan that might allow themselves to crack a smile really needs to give this a listen. I guess you could take it seriously if you want to, but it's a lot more fun to experience this like you would a haunted house and just have a bit of fun with it.
Tearstained - Nightmare Visions:
I don't think anyone would ever accuse Tearstained of being the most professional of metal bands, especially when factoring in the often amateurish vocals and lyrics, but I personally have a hard time arguing with anyone combining prime Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, and Bathory for just about any reason. Mikael is handling everything himself here, as many other black metal bands have, which is a difficult proposition and not one that everyone is capable of handling. Sometimes his reach exceeds his grasp, so I can't fault anyone for not getting into this, but I enjoy throwing it on when I'm in the mood for some first wave worshiping black metal. 
Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise:
There will always be deniers and detractors from progress out there who think that the glory days of black metal are behind us, but honestly, it has to be hard to see anything but what's behind you when your head is wedged up your ass. Seriously, consider how much black metal had to evolve to get to the second wave point that these people want to cling to forever. Was it supposed to stop growing and evolving? Not as far as I'm concerned. Thantifaxath is one such band pushing the genre forward to exciting new horizons, building upon the foundations set before them and blazing new trails into the unknown. Some parallels can be drawn to the likes of Blut Aus Nord or Altar of Plagues, but Thantifaxath is really off in a world of their own. This is the kind of thing that gives me hope for the future of black metal, and shows us that there is always more to explore.
The Abyss - The Other Side:
The Abyss is a side project of Hypocrisy which featured all of the same members in different roles than in their main band. Despite being all of the same people, this avoids sounding like Hypocrisy playing black metal, and rather embodies a similar sound that is fairly typical of mid-90's Swedish black metal. This alternates between the more brutal blasting assaults of Marduk or Dark Funeral and a more melodic mid-paced style that has a bit more in common with the Norwegian scene from the time. All in all, it's a pretty solid listen, and it's too bad that they wouldn't continue with the band after two albums. 
The Black - The Priest of Satan:
The Black is another one of those bands that nobody would have heard of if not for a connection to a pretty well known musician in the scene. This is still a pretty obscure album, but it has made it into the hands of a few because Jon Nodtveidt of Dissection handles the vocals and guitars here. This is a great deal more raw and less complex than Dissection, but its "less is more" approach is actually pretty damn satisfying. Nothing world shattering here, but a great album for fans of Dissection or raw black metal to hear. 
The Royal Arch Blaspheme - The Royal Arch Blaspheme:
For those of you on the search for rotten and blasphemous sounding black metal, The Royal Arch Blaspheme is the answer to your... well, not prayers, I suppose... Anyway, this is truly some grisly and violent sounding black metal from Neil Jameson of Krieg and John Gelso of Profanatica. Thankfully, this is much more in line with the Profanatica side of USBM than the less interesting blasting style that we're accustomed to hearing from N. Imperial's Krieg, but this seems a bit more mid-paced and deliberate overall. The sound is still harrowing and filthy though, despite the clean production and tight performance, and would honestly appeal just as much to fans of raw death metal and war metal as to USBM fans. 
The Ruins of Beverast - Rain Upon the Impure:
The Ruins of Beverast might very well be my favorite black metal band of the modern era. Started by Alexander Von Meilenwald after the dissolution of his prior band Nagelfar, The Ruins of Beverast plays an extremely dark, gloomy, and personal form of atmospheric black metal with lengthy compositions that have a way of seducing you and drawing you into their bleeding arms. The band would incorporate more doom and death metal elements as they went along, and the atmosphere often coincides with the despair and mourning of funeral doom metal, but always in a way that is distinctly theirs. Every one of their albums are breathtaking, and they're easily the heaviest live band I have ever seen in my life. Stop what you're doing right now and hit the play button on this link, then buy all of their albums. You won't regret it.
Thorns - Thorns:
Thorns is the band of the infamous Snorre Ruch, who is most well known for driving Varg to and from the scene of the murder of Euronymous. Prior to this, he had recorded some demos as Thorns and Stigma Diabolicum, which were not only excellent, but also highly influential upon the nascent Norwegian black metal scene, before joining Mayhem on guitar. After his release from jail, he hooked up with Satyr to create this album of very forward thinking and industrial influenced black metal that is a lot like Satyricon's Rebel Extravaganza, but much better. That's not to say that I don't like that album, but this is head and shoulders above it to me. Hopefully there will be a followup one day, but if this is the only Thorns full length that we are left with, then I can't complain. 
Treblinka - Crawling in Vomits:
Before they became the mighty Tiamat, one of the earlier extreme metal bands to transition to exploring the still new territory of gothic metal, the band was known as Treblinka. Despite being named after a concentration camp, the band doesn't have any affiliation with Nazi ideology, but they did have a pretty classy and well arranged first wave black metal style that made them underground legends. The track above is from their first demo, but is more concise and better performed than what many of their peers were doing at the time. This is a cult classic, and a must have for first wave black metal fans, or anyone who thinks Bathory was the only Swedish black metal band of the 80's.

As do I. Ahab is one of the few bigger funeral doom bands I haven't seen love yet, but I don't know that they've ever played in the US.

The extreme side of doom metal occupies a lot of my listening time and attention, so it's an easy subject to get lost in for me.

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Very underrated band.

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Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale

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You caught me, lol.

Moonspell - Wolfheart
Type O Negative - World Coming Down
Virgin Black - Elegant... and Dying
Draconian - Arcane Rain Fell
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast
Septic Flesh - Ophidian Wheel
Tristania - Beyond the Veil
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
Paradise Lost - Icon
Funeral - From These Wounds

That's just off the top of my head. I may have missed something, but this should be mostly representative of how I like gothic metal to sound.

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Unfortunately I was too drunk to remember most of Aura Noir's set when I saw. Hope you have fun.

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Enslaved was fucking stunning last night. Even with some sound issues (Ivar's guitar cut out a bunch during Storm Son and intermittently throughout the rest of the set), they were insanely tight and focused. Almost all new stuff, Vetrarnótt from Vikingligr Veldi and Isa being the only ones that were from the last 3 albums, but I had no problem with that. Sacred Horse and 1000 Years of Rain were the highlights for me, but it was all excellent. A class act that always gives me additional reasons to be my favorite band, even though I don't need any more reasons at this point.

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Welcome. Lots of old-school death metal fans here.

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You just said the magic words!

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This advice could be given to anyone who wanted an easy way to make me happy.

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Demonic Christ, yo.
 

Have you tried "the internet"? I know it's a mystical place that not everyone can access, but I've heard tale that if you can get to it, what you can find is limitless.

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