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My buddy bid on that show, but what they wanted was a bit ridiculous for our small market, so I'm going to miss that one unfortunately. However, I have seen Mayhem and Watain before, the former was outstanding, and the latter was great the first time, but not as good recently. As far as the best black metal show I've seen, I would have to go with Maryland Death Fest 2014. The Ruins of Beverast were stunningly massive sounding, easily the heaviest live band I've ever seen. Taake kicked serious ass during their set, as did Inquisition, with Pseudogod and Diocletian also turning in great performances. Obviously not strictly a black metal show, but there were plenty of black metal bands there. Mayhem did rate extremely highly for me though, as De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas is my favorite black metal album and they played a good chunk of it, but Marduk and Nazxul were also amazing.

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Despite I'm not a big fan of BM, I've seen a few nice black gigs, and definitely the best was performed by Polish band Mgła (Mgla) on Brutal Assault Fest this year. One of the best gigs on BA, better than Slayer, Down, High On Fire and a tonnes of other bands from the whole world. Other nice acts I've noticed through my life, were: 1349, Satyricon, Marduk, Impaled Nazarene (guys were so fucking drunk, but playing accurate and rock'n'rolled strongly), Watain, Furia, Shining, Besatt, Blaze of Perditon, Iperyt (MIGHTY IPERYT), Deep Desolation... I was also on Mayhem twice and was really disappointed...

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Despite I'm not a big fan of BM, I've seen a few nice black gigs, and definitely the best was performed by Polish band Mgła (Mgla) on Brutal Assault Fest this year. One of the best gigs on BA, better than Slayer, Down, High On Fire and a tonnes of other bands from the whole world. Other nice acts I've noticed through my life, were: 1349, Satyricon, Marduk, Impaled Nazarene (guys were so fucking drunk, but playing accurate and rock'n'rolled strongly), Watain, Furia, Shining, Besatt, Blaze of Perditon, Iperyt (MIGHTY IPERYT), Deep Desolation... I was also on Mayhem twice and was really disappointed...
Mgła was at MDF too, can't believe I forgot to list them, as they were great too. I'm surprised that you found Mayhem disappointing, was Maniac on vocals, or Attila?
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I would love to see Furia performing their older stuff. Probably the best BM show I've seen was Mayhem on the Grand Declaration tour. Maniac is also my favorite vocalist for them, at least among the living. They're far from my favorite BM band but their set was great. Satyricon was less impressive; Satyr was only doing vocals, the show wasn't very dynamic, and he kept walking to the side of the stage to talk to the sound guy. Rotting Christ was a disappointment too, mostly because of their set; the oldest song they played was Archon. I'm not a fan of anything they did after Triarchy. Mutilation Rites was really good. There have been a bunch of other local or kvlt bands I've seen here and there, but nothing really worth mentioning.

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Mgła was at MDF too' date=' can't believe I forgot to list them, as they were great too. I'm surprised that you found Mayhem disappointing, was Maniac on vocals, or Attila?[/quote'] Both with Attila, I suppose - I don't know the newest history of this band. Gigs in 2008 and 2013. I appreciate "DMDS" mostly and tracks from that album were poorly played. Also stage image confusing - rather funny than scary...
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I can't realy pick one show among all; I always enjoy Taake and Watain shows' date=' they are always great. I also loved Mgla even though I saw them only once in realy realy small hall. As for Satyricon shows, they are always awesome but I perfer their festival performences.[/quote'] Watain have actually grown less appealing each time I have seen them, their schtick seems to be overpowering their songwriting and performance anymore. The songs I've heard from their new albums sound so dull live that I haven't even bothered to check out their last 2 albums, whereas they sounded lively and passionate when I saw them touring on Sworn To the Dark. Satyricon put on a good performance when I saw them, but their set list was quite disappointing. I like all of their albums that I've heard, but the only song they played from before Volcano was Mother North, and their old material is vastly superior to the new.
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Watain have actually grown less appealing each time I have seen them' date=' their schtick seems to be overpowering their songwriting and performance anymore. The songs I've heard from their new albums sound so dull live that I haven't even bothered to check out their last 2 albums, whereas they sounded lively and passionate when I saw them touring on Sworn To the Dark. Satyricon put on a good performance when I saw them, but their set list was quite disappointing. I like all of their albums that I've heard, but the only song they played from before Volcano was Mother North, and their old material is vastly superior to the new.[/quote']I never realy had troubles with not liking Watain shows. Last time i saw them it was i april last year i think, they made pretty cool performence, but it's true i never saw them before 2011 if i remeber correctly. Satyricon line-ups are sooo different from one show to another :D In 2013 when they performed in a small club hall lineup was nothing special, they played only few of songs before Now Diabolical (Mother North, Hvite krists dod and Repined bastard nation), but in one of the bigger festivals in 2014 they played more of their old material, that i would deffinetly enjoy to hear some more nowadays also not only till 2008..
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That Mayhem/Watain/Revenge show on 30 Jan was right up there. Quite a different line-up for the Swedes in the US. Emperor/Borknagar in '99 was incredible. Satyricon, in 2004 at The Pound in SF was good. Dark Funeral/Enslaved in Orangevalealso ruled.

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On 15-5-2015 at 1:32 AM, Frostaudn said: After yesterday: I would say Svartidaudi. Also Der Weg Einerfreiheit is very great live.

Allow me to correct myself.

Mgla must be one of the most tight bands live.

They certainly are. As good as they were though, there are still a number of black metal performances that I would place above theirs.

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