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51 minutes ago, halloween said:

IN MY HUMBLE OPINION,THAT TITLE GOES TO SATYRICON. WHO DECIDED TO TURN THEIR MUSIC TO CRAP AFTER "NEMESIS DIVENA"? I THINK I SPELLED THAT RIGHT,ITS BEEN A LONG TIME. ANYWAY, WHO DO YOU THINK DESERVES THIS TITLE?

All caps, you must feel strongly about this. Satyricon definitely dropped off, honestly I don't even like Nemesis Divina as much as the first two, but their early stuff is great and I don't hate a couple of their recent albums. There are way worse bands out there.

 

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On 6/25/2011 at 3:14 AM, Caedere said:

What band do you think that is the absolutely worst/ridiculous black metal band you've ever heard of?

Not just heard of but also listened to - Mayhem and Burzum. IDK how can anyone like them. Mayhem have 5 or 6 somewhat good songs, though not good enough to hear them more than once. Burzum is even worse cuz he has none. :D

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On 6/26/2011 at 12:35 PM, Caedere said:

Re: Worst black metal bands

Cradle of Filth.. just.. No.

 

On 7/12/2011 at 3:59 AM, The Metal Advisor said:

Re: Worst black metal bands Dimmu Borgir is one I particularly can't stand, along with various obscure black metal bands that claim to be "true" and "kvlt." :x Actually, I detest black metal bands that preach Nazism and similar ideologies.

 

On 10/21/2011 at 8:24 AM, General Metal said:

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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Forlorn - Crystal Palace - Amazon.com Music

forlorn has my vote for the worst black metal band. talentless dimmu borgir wannabes. it also didn't help that this album was mixed horribly even for black metal. a cluttered clusterfuck of bad guitar riffs and cheesy keyboard melodies. i am not some elitist who hates symphonic black metal. i love symphonic black metal. gloomy grim, limbonic art, mystic circle, parnassus, hecate enthroned, obtained enslavement, alghazanth, emperor and early dimmu are my jams. i just only like good sympohonic black metal. forlorn is the opposite of good music in my opinion. "the crystal palace" is on youtube if you wanna know what i am talking about. but, i wouldn't recommend it. this was the only album of their's i heard. but at that point, i had heard enough. my ears still won't forgive me. those who like forlorn, to each their own and i respect your difference in opinion

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There was this band out of Tennessee called (I think) Blood Stained Dusk. I ordered their CD off of some website ages ago, can't even remember where it was, and the album just did nothing for me. It sounded more like a band that was trying too hard to be black metal when in reality, they were just a death metal band with corpsepaint photos on their album. I made it through the whole thing like once while I was delivering pizzas for Papa John's and never bothered to listen to it again. I think I traded it for like my third copy of "In the Nightside Eclipse" since the vinyl of that that I now own is like the fourth edition of that album that I've owned.

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