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Maybe calling Kenose an album is wrong, its three tracks in 36 minutes. Thats the last one who have some sort of coherence, A few random stops and notes are there but not to the extent that it annoys me. Thats the problem with the later material. 'Si Momentum Requires, Circumspice' Is also a good album i would recommend.
I like the older and newer periods. The old stuff is Darkthrone style black metal, but better than many of the more unoriginal clone bands out there. The new stuff reminds me of the newer works of Blut Aus Nord, Gorguts, Ulcerate, etc..., chaotic, dissonant, fierce, and sort of otherworldly. Starting with Fas they did get pretty avant-garde, and it's not for everybody, but it is my favorite album of theirs. SMRC is up there though, it's the perfect bridge between their older and newer material.
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I like the older and newer periods. The old stuff is Darkthrone style black metal' date=' but better than many of the more unoriginal clone bands out there. The new stuff reminds me of the newer works of Blut Aus Nord, Gorguts, Ulcerate, etc..., chaotic, dissonant, fierce, and sort of otherworldly. Starting with Fas they did get pretty avant-garde, and it's not for everybody, but it is my favorite album of theirs. SMRC is up there though, it's the perfect bridge between their older and newer material.[/quote'] The only understanding I have of avant-garde is that i dont use to like bands labeled with it, I dont really know what makes a band avant-garde to be honest. But at Fas i kind of stopped interesting me to new material. Just heard a track or two from Paracletus for example.
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I have duly begun to check out the Black Metal Recommendations thread in my name and so far I've heard Aeternus and am listening to Ancient Wisdom.

also women look sexy in black icon_e_wink.gif
easty there tiger lol
You have absolutely no idea of the monolith of sexuality that motivated that statement. :P Such is the nature of DAV3.
wtf is Avant gard anyway
It is the musical equivalent of the small chili pepper next to an item on a restaurant menu.
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Or you could be like Blut Aus Nord and make totally awesome' date=' fucked up, and otherworldly sounding metal with regular metal instruments...[/quote'] Yeah, I like to imagine that MoRT's guitar was actually just one guy whacking the strings using a really really sustained phaser.
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I dislike most black metal from a stylistic standpoint, inverse dogmatism aside. I don't care for blast beats at all, and tremolo riffs can get very old very quickly. I also can't take the vocals seriously much of the time, they can often sound like neutered croaking. Of course, they don't always sound like this but when they do it totally kills whatever mood the band was trying to set up. I have heard some black metal that I do really like (all Asian, oddly: Chthonic, Rudra, and Sigh) but that's owning to the distinctive spin that each band puts on the basic template. The specifically folky bent of Melechesh and Chthonic help to vary the tremolo riffs enough to make them interesting, as do the avant-garde elements in Sigh's music.
I know what u mean! Thats the reason I can't stand certain bands. And I really cant stand depressive black metal! Too much annoying croaking, and crying!
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They're French' date=' so I doubt that they're the type to get dirty, let alone live in caves.[/quote'] Have you ever seen a video of Trepalium performing live? They're probably the grubbiest metal band I've ever seen.
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Black metal is a really weird genre for me. At the first it took me long to get into black metal, I started to like Dimmu Borgir at some point and began to like more symphonic black metal (Graveworm, Stormlord, Carach Angren, etc.). From there, I got more into black metal, mostly atmospheric and depressive black metal. Strange thing is in black metal, there are many bands I like, but also many I dont. I like for example Immortal and Watain, but I don't like Mayhem or Gorgoroth. Same thing in dsbm, I am a big fan of Austere and Woods of Desolation, but I cannot listen to Silencer. On the corpsepaint subject: I don't care. The music matters, not the way how people look.

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I'm much the same, I can't stand Burzum or the entire DSBM scene (that stuff really just takes me to a dark place I'd rather not spend any time given the choice) but I love Melechesh, Necromantia, Darkthrone (before they became the world's most pathetic pseudo-black metal band) Immortal, Master's Hammer and Ulver (just to name a few)

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I'm much the same' date=' I can't stand Burzum or the entire DSBM scene (that stuff really just takes me to a dark place I'd rather not spend any time given the choice) but I love Melechesh, Necromantia, Darkthrone (before they became the world's most pathetic pseudo-black metal band) Immortal, Master's Hammer and Ulver (just to name a few)[/quote'] Same for me! I'm not into Burzum's politics, and don't see how that fits into BM. How can u call your band/project BM and be political?
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