BLACK METAL

[cr]

I've been in an somehow 'escapist mood' for the last couple days and was listening to lots of SUMMONING.
Old Mornings Dawn will end this weekend. Monumental!

[Rhan-Tegoth]

As for "recent" releases, I recommend MJÖLNIR - Magnet Vektor. That album is totally insane (and exhausting in a good way), Industrial Wagnerian BM madness. You really need a coffee break in between, just like if you're watching Terry Gilliams' "Brazil" for the first time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSmpriy9o44

[holy ghost]

That PERVERTED CEREMONY LP on NWN is hitting all the right notes. Raw but not too raw, variations in the songs, capes, candles, fog, lots of Beherit worship... fuckin' choice stuff. Probably one of the only "black metal" LPs I've really dug this year.

Local lads TOMB MOLD have really hit a great thing with their LP too. Very much rooted in the early Finnish death metal scene, I hear great original riffs but lots of Convulse, Purtenance etc....

If you like that "drums recorded in pro studio, guitars recorded in our basements" tech-prog-death stuff I'm pretty into Decrepit Birth's new DLP. I could have done without a goddamned full side of an LP devoted to covers (who needs to hear a cover of "Orion" in 2017) but it's pretty solid. I think trimming it back to 40 minutes for a solid LP would have been a better choice but hey, I'm just yammering out my ass on a noise forum....

That Oksennus LP is fuckin' bananas too. Y'all should hear that salty motherfucker, I hear NWN just signed them.....

[Old Banyan Tree]

What do you guys think about bands that mix PE/Noise with Black Metal?

[Euro Trash Bazooka]

I personally really dislike it.

[Deadpriest]

I liked some of what Vichy did.

[holy ghost]

I liked that WOLD record with the spooky owl on it.....

[Rhan-Tegoth]

That PERVERTED CEREMONY LP on NWN is hitting all the right notes. Raw but not too raw, variations in the songs, capes, candles, fog, lots of Beherit worship... fuckin' choice stuff. Probably one of the only "black metal" LPs I've really dug this year.

Don't think it's anything special. Just the usual overplayed Blaspheritofago stuff NWN is now releasing since years. This label is stuck in a dead end, without their re-releases of classic stuff they would be nothing, their own discoveries like Expander or Cauchemar are fucking AIDS to any normal ear. Of course there's still the heavyweights like Revenge or Goatpenis, but these are not "NWN bands" since they were successful years before on other Labels already without any help from that Vegan chink. 

[urall]

That PERVERTED CEREMONY LP on NWN is hitting all the right notes. Raw but not too raw, variations in the songs, capes, candles, fog, lots of Beherit worship... fuckin' choice stuff. Probably one of the only "black metal" LPs I've really dug this year.

Don't think it's anything special. Just the usual overplayed Blaspheritofago stuff NWN is now releasing since years. This label is stuck in a dead end, without their re-releases of classic stuff they would be nothing, their own discoveries like Expander or Cauchemar are fucking AIDS to any normal ear. Of course there's still the heavyweights like Revenge or Goatpenis, but these are not "NWN bands" since they were successful years before on other Labels already without any help from that Vegan chink. 

Agreed it's not new, but i'm still into it.

Really looking forward to the new Knelt Rote which is supposed to come out this year still.

[Scat-O-Logy]

Not familiar with most NWN! releases but from "new" bands, Antediluvian, Chaos Echœs, Dead Congregation, Grave Upheaval and Irkallian Oracle are very good. Proclamation is more on the "Blaspheritofago" side but I think it's a solid band. When it comes to black metal, Necromantic Worship is very good Greek worship band. And those Goatlord reissues were essential along with compilations from Black Witchery and Ysengrin. Plus they just signed Oksennus which is one of the more interesting current death metal bands. Not a fan of the label, but far from a hater. The "Vegan chink" does good work (even if I don't give a shit about die-hard editions).

[absurdexposition]

(even if I don't give a shit about die-hard editions).

I like a lot of the bands on the roster, but I have no raving praise, nor anything bad to say other than I can't stand these fucking picture disc trophies. Otherwise I think NWN is doing good work and it's important to have labels like it.

[Rhan-Tegoth]

Not familiar with most NWN! releases but from "new" bands, Antediluvian, Chaos Echœs, Dead Congregation, Grave Upheaval and Irkallian Oracle are very good.

These bands are all Death Metal to my ears and not really interesting for me. Too much Incantation worship nowadays, but to each his own.

[Andrew McIntosh]

This is almost fucking perfect, been listening obsessively -

https://paysagedhiver.bandcamp.com/track/schnee-iv

[Rhan-Tegoth]

This is almost fucking perfect, been listening obsessively -

https://paysagedhiver.bandcamp.com/track/schnee-iv

PdH is definitively one of the best BM projects of the ongoing millennium (and I am not just saying this because Wintherr is a compatriot) I recommend you the same-titled demo if you don't know it already. It can get a bit redundant with the whole discography, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lBCPM95YYg

I think BRANIKALD from Russia is one of the few bands that have a similar hypnotic atmosphere. No surprise since I know from fanzines that both bands were in contact in the late 90ies, not sure who influenced whom though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPDAoE-Nr-M

[Thor]

Having dwelt on this subject for quite some time I'll contribute to this topic by speculating the best black metal releases (Imo) with regards to sub genres of bm so any outsider can find the type they like. I'll limit each artist to one spot per subgenre
Starting with the source
1st wave bm
Sarcófago - INRI
Bathory - The return
Mayhem - Deathcrush
Flames of Hell - Fire and Steel
Venom - Welcome to Hell
Hellhammer - Apocalyptic rites
Mercyful Fate- Don't Brake the oath

2nd wave
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Mayhem - De mysteriis dom sathanas
Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
Mutiilation - Remains of a ruined cursed dead soul
Katharsis - Krucifixxion
Vlad tepes/Belketré - March to the Black Holocaust
Gorgoroth - Under the sign of Hell
Beherit - Drawing down the moon
Inquisition - Into the infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult
Veles - Night at the bare mountain
Moonblood - Taste our German Steel

Depressive suicidal bm
Silencer - Death Pierce me
Shining - Within deep dark chambers
Bethlehem - S.U.I.Z.I.D.E.

Bestial Black Metal
Blasphemy - Fallen Angel of Doom
Beherit - The Oath of Black Blood
Archgoat - Angelcunt/Whore of Bethlehem
Proclamation - Messiah of Darkness and Impurity
Revenge - Scum.Collapse.Eradication
Conqueror - War.Cult.Supremacy
Black Witchery - Desecrating the Holy Kingdom

3rd wave of BM

Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum requires Circumspice
Funeral Mist - Salvation
Svartidauði - Flesh Cathedral
Blut aus Nord - The Work which Transforms God
Arizmenda - Stillbirth at the temple of Venus
Rhinocervs - RH-7
Sinmara - Aphotic Womb
Urfaust - Geist ist Tauft

Noise filled black metal
Nyogthaebliz - Progenitors of Mankinds Tribulation
Tsalal - S/T
Tetragrammacide - Typhonic Wormholes...
Total Genocide - SatanVomitChaos
Feitu/Óraculum split
Enbilulugugal - Goatserpents for Noizemongers
Vraeck - Vergraeck Lehuien Gevlaekt
Obskuritatem - (not really noise filtered but flirts with it)

Well I'm writing this from memory so there may be typos or misphrased albums let alone the volume of albums this list is missing but this at least gives overview over the most impressive albums of each style.