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I think if there ever was a case of proving that there's a lot of intent and talent in black metal Funeral Mist would be my top pick. Both Marantha and Hekatomb are incredible works of art. Vicious, melodic, eerie, beautiful, dark and tons of repeat listen-value.

 

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Funeral Mist, one of the rare cases where a band's best album came 25 years after they/he formed the band. Of course they've only managed 3 full length albums in 28 years of existence, I guess that's because Marduk stays pretty busy and takes up all his time. But still it's rare when I don't prefer a bands' early works. The weirdest part is that I'm really not a Marduk fan at all but I thought Hekatomb was brilliant. Guess they don't let him write the songs for Marduk, but maybe they should. I'll have to go back and give Maranatha a spin sometime, that was the first one of theirs I heard, but it's been quite awhile.

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18 hours ago, ratpfink said:

Yeah I heard a couple tracks on bandcamp last night(whole album is not available to stream there yet) and it was an instant preorder. Great stuff!

Listened to it 3 times last night. I don't usually pre-order stuff but I'll probably grab it when it drops on Wednesday or shorty thereafter. 

 

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5 hours ago, eternalcrypt said:

May I recommend immortal, a Norwegian black metal band. these guys are really great, I only just discovered them recently. 

here is one of their albums, enjoy🤘

Immortal - At the Heart of Winter (Full Album) - YouTube

Really?  Only just found Immortal?  Wow! Are you new to metal/black metal?

 

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36 minutes ago, MacabreEternal said:

Really?  Only just found Immortal?  Wow! Are you new to metal/black metal?

 

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i got into metal when my dad showed me rob zombie, but ive only (what most people would call) properly gotten into it a few months\weeks ago, im guessing around 5 to 6 weeks ago tbh. 

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23 minutes ago, eternalcrypt said:

i got into metal when my dad showed me rob zombie, but ive only (what most people would call) properly gotten into it a few months\weeks ago, im guessing around 5 to 6 weeks ago tbh. 

Fair comment.  Seems like you are finding the good stuff, that's a great record, probably Immortal's finest hour.

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