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cradle of filth were okay! they have gotten worse over the years though :L
Totally agree, Principles of evil....and Dusk and her embrace were amazing albums, but just lost interest in them when Midian came out, just cant take them serious anymore!
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Re: Worst black metal bands I especially find it hilarious that the accordion player is the breadliest guy there. :| But I do think that's a real band...I could be wrong, but I know they're a French group. Whether they're a parody group or not remains to be seen.

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Dimmu Borgir is good, well, at least Their newest Album ''ABRAHADABRA'', ;D but we all think Different^^
You're right, they were good until Puritanical came out. That album was both the start of their rise in popularity and their downfall creatively. Everything afterwards has been incredibly bland & unoriginal IMO.
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even in dimmu's darker days i would never class them as being one of the worst black metal bands :L
They were alright but they're boring now. Death Kult Armageddon was a joke. It was full of Mayhem and Cradle of Filth rip offs. I heard and sadly purchased the one after and it was just stupid. The first two tracks were good but the rest was filler. Plus the concept was painfully juvenile and has been done plenty of times before. I put them here, not because they're living the dream, not because they're popular, but because musically they've got nothing interesting or original to offer.
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Re: Worst black metal bands OH GOD THE ELEPHANTS!!!!!! Anyways, if you want bad black metal, look no further than the crap released by Cryptopsy recently (by recently, I'm thinking around about 5 years). Oh, and there's also this:

While not being the WORST of black metal, I still think it's shitty. The vocals are the only thing making me say that though.
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I think I might finally have found vocals more awful than metalcore. Ouch. At least the elephants were funny. Maybe they could sing about Hannibal's invasion of Rome?
While reading this, I was watching footage of a fire in the Australian countryside, and was almost on the floor laughing. Suffice to say, if my Mum didn't think I was crazy already, she does now.
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Re: Worst black metal bands Satanic Destroyer. Words can't describe. Definitely can't agree with Ildjarn and Abruptum, Forest Poetry is awesome and Abruptum had some cool/creepy material. Haven't heard enough from the others to say, and despite liking plenty of USBM, I've honestly only heard maybe one or two Krieg songs and can't really remember them.

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