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Hi everyone,

For a long time I have been looking for rare and unknown material of the (in)famous french black metal circle, Les Legions Noires. I have been searching for years and in the end I just couldn't find any. I know it's really difficult to find any kind of material that is even slightly related to this french circle, because they used to keep their real identities unknown and also they didn't share their material too much.

So, this post aims to reach all the blackmetalheads in this forum that are in possess of anything (pictures, demos, cover art, ecc...) about LLN that could be interesting and that I could add in my black metal collection. This post is also intended to help each one of you out there that, like me, is struggling to find any LLN related material on the web nowadays.

Cheers,

Lord V

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On 6/28/2018 at 7:05 AM, carceremlupi said:

Hi everyone,

For a long time I have been looking for rare and unknown material of the (in)famous french black metal circle, Les Legions Noires. I have been searching for years and in the end I just couldn't find any. I know it's really difficult to find any kind of material that is even slightly related to this french circle, because they used to keep their real identities unknown and also they didn't share their material too much.

So, this post aims to reach all the blackmetalheads in this forum that are in possess of anything (pictures, demos, cover art, ecc...) about LLN that could be interesting and that I could add in my black metal collection. This post is also intended to help each one of you out there that, like me, is struggling to find any LLN related material on the web nowadays.

Cheers,

Lord V

HAIL BLACK METAL

Hey Lord V. Interesting idea. 

I guess it depends on what you mean by 'unknown material'. I think tracking down obscure items of a scene like that is a really fascinating prospect. To my shame I haven't explored the French black metal scene as much as I could have. In fact, it was only the other day that I finally ordered Mutiilation's 'Vampires of the Black Imperial Blood' on CD! 

What sort of things do you have already? I'd love to hear some of your inventory. 

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You mean regular LLN isn't obscure enough nor shoddy enough in recording quality to satisfy those kvlt cravings? You might as well dig through dumpsters and search out a bunch of poor quality demo tapes from random bedroom black metal bands. Then print off exceptionally poor quality LLN artwork from online sources for said tapes. Now you've got a match!  

 

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On 6/30/2018 at 9:34 PM, Vampyrique said:

You mean regular LLN isn't obscure enough nor shoddy enough in recording quality to satisfy those kvlt cravings? You might as well dig through dumpsters and search out a bunch of poor quality demo tapes from random bedroom black metal bands. Then print off exceptionally poor quality LLN artwork from online sources for said tapes. Now you've got a match!  

 

This sounds awesome! Send me some material when you get out of those dumpsters. 

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18 minutes ago, Requiem said:

This sounds awesome! Send me some material when you get out of those dumpsters. 

I bet those LLN rarities don't even exist and probably have 100% ratings on metal-archives to add to their kvlt reputation.

That's how I would play it. I would be the most kvlt black metal band of all time with the most revered reputation via fake online reviews for my sought-after so-called masterpieces, despite there being nothing real about any of it. On my promise of available cassette copies, black metal bedrooms would empty, trolls would emerge from under bridge, misanthropes uniting for the first time, and all for the quest of The Holy Grail of all things unholy!

 

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