BLACK METAL

[Abraxxum]

Would anyone care to recommended some recent-ish BM that eludes most genre conventions in favour of a more original approach (lyrical themes included - there are only so many goat-worshipping/boot-stomping/blood-drinking/Viking-LARPing/Tolkien-obsessed bands one can stomach)? Not the "trying hard to be technical/progressive/forward-thinking/whathaveyou for the sake of being techincal/progressive/forward-thinking/whathaveyou" kind, but something organically weird(-ish?)/quirky - outsider BM, basically, I suppose.

What about the new Antediluvian album??  or Sect Pig.... 

[Electro Surgeon]

https://innercityuprising.bandcamp.com/album/satanic-broadcast

Raw black metal from Australia

[Bruitiste]

Would anyone care to recommended some recent-ish BM that eludes most genre conventions in favour of a more original approach (lyrical themes included - there are only so many goat-worshipping/boot-stomping/blood-drinking/Viking-LARPing/Tolkien-obsessed bands one can stomach)? Not the "trying hard to be technical/progressive/forward-thinking/whathaveyou for the sake of being techincal/progressive/forward-thinking/whathaveyou" kind, but something organically weird(-ish?)/quirky - outsider BM, basically, I suppose.

I'd also recommend the latest Antediluvian album, it's phenomenal.

Also, almost anything by Reverorum ib Malacht.  This fairly recent one is great, for example: "Vad Är Inte Sju Huvud?", from 2020.

[NerveGas]

The new Warloghe and new Helwetti albums have been the best releases of the year as far as BM goes for me. I'd been expecting them for years, and they delivered. I'm just holding off for the LP versions. Now I want new riffs, not a release of material written 10 years ago whose instrumental versions were circulating in the underground if possible. And some new Musta Surma music as well.

Hulder's album was also great.

A little late here. But all Warloghe material is amazing. And the newest one was easily best black metal release of last year along with Ride For Revenge. Warloghe even the newest material captures the sound of the old style perfectly. I need to listen to the Helwetti more but I was very impressed and the aforementioned comments about Warloghe could easily apply to them. No modern frills or gimmicks.

[metaltothecore1986]

We still have copies of the latest Warloghe album in stock although it is getting low, and we just received a bunch of new titles from Reek of the Unzen Gas Fumes, Pantheon, Seigneur Voland, Funeral, and a lot more.  If anyone here is not familiar with us, we ship within the United States and to Canada and we accept payment via secure credit card checkout.  We do NOT use PayPal.

Thanks for the interest!

[Eloy]

I just realized that there is a fourth Grand Belial's Key album ("Kohanic Charmers").

U.S.A.: Weltenfeind / Hells Headbangers
Europe/Rest Of The World: WTC

[FreakAnimalFinland]

Recent best BM for me, is perhaps mostly re-issues, but these been listening:

CRIMSON EVENFALL cd, all demo material finally collected of this pre-Musta Surma. 74 mins of Finnish cold BM! Sound has vastly more punch than the old tapes. Mastered from original DAT masters!

SADORASS "Under Siege" 2xCD, in times when most of raw bm sounds in my ears like blackened boutique metal, and most of other BM sounds clean and too nice, it is indeed good to get the real deal radical and hard black metal! Of course I got most of this already. 1st CD with unreleased tracks, 7"s and such is best stuff, but disc 2 has 2002 album on it.

[HateSermon]

I just realized that there is a fourth Grand Belial's Key album ("Kohanic Charmers").

U.S.A.: Weltenfeind / Hells Headbangers
Europe/Rest Of The World: WTC

Preorders up at Hell's Headbangers:
https://shop-hellsheadbangers.com/item.asp?cID=0&PID=101817

[evilxskin]

Recent best BM for me, is perhaps mostly re-issues, but these been listening:

CRIMSON EVENFALL cd, all demo material finally collected of this pre-Musta Surma. 74 mins of Finnish cold BM! Sound has vastly more punch than the old tapes. Mastered from original DAT masters!

SADORASS "Under Siege" 2xCD, in times when most of raw bm sounds in my ears like blackened boutique metal, and most of other BM sounds clean and too nice, it is indeed good to get the real deal radical and hard black metal! Of course I got most of this already. 1st CD with unreleased tracks, 7"s and such is best stuff, but disc 2 has 2002 album on it.

Heavily agree on both of these. Best black metal you can currently get and has been recently published.

[metaltothecore1986]

The new Kvasir's Blood album was released about a week ago and is available from us now.  You can listen to a full stream of the album here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7U5VhxhrCg

Here's the link to purchase the CD from us:

https://metaltothecore1986.com/shop/kb-ter-cd/

[elderblood]

Elderblood Productions announce the new release: EBP-023 Morke Vesener - His Dark Eminence






AMBIENT BLACK DUNGEON METAL FROM THE NEFARIOUS GATHERING OF ELDRITCH CASTLES
An eerie soundscape of lonely dissonance, "His Dark Eminence" is a ritual of raw ambient black metal given breath of unlife by that which is known only by the weeping omen of Mørke Vesener. Wreathed by sorcerous tapestry in the concrete tomb pits, this incantation is a potent alchemical fusion of punishing raw black metal combined with the mournful synth ministrations of the dungeon. Enigmatic in its execution of dream languish melodies, croaking rasp orations, hypnotic percussive momentum and hallucinatory concrete crypt atmospherics; "His Dark Eminence" is a sweeping succession of spells in perfect harmony between isolated ambience and entropic instrumentation. The perfect grimoire to experience beneath a starless sky within the rotting remnants of an ancient oak. Limited to 50 copies only.
<Inscription of woe by Neheroth>
https://elderbloodproductions.bigcartel.com/product/morke-vesener-his-dark-eminence-mc
https://elderbloodproductions.bandcamp.com/album/his-dark-eminence

[CVMN]

Bone Awl meets late Absurd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdtvf2sXEDE

[Theodore]

This somehow appeared recommended in my YouTube. Interview with Goatowarex boss : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvwRCHwdURQ . Although i dont know about black metal and the label, I watched it cause of his relation / side-label to PE. And i couldnt resist watching a chinese metal guy wearing a Genocide Organ shirt. The first part is very interesting no matter if you are interested in metal and his label ...

Best was the impressive info about how they were listening 'western' music tapes in China.

[Fistfuck Masonanie]

New Runespell out today and it's REALLY good, no room for fluff. 30 minutes and only 4 tracks, I wouldn't mind if more artists did this. Never understood making an album 40 minutes plus if you don't have the material, just cut it. Anyway...

https://runespell.bandcamp.com/album/sentinels-of-time

[MHK]

I just realized that there is a fourth Grand Belial's Key album ("Kohanic Charmers").

I've listened to this a few times on youtube and can't decide whether to order or not. Vocals are a vast improvement from Kosherat, but the whole thing feels too clean and tidy (just like Kosherat). I greatly prefer the barbarity of the first two albums.

CRIMSON EVENFALL cd, all demo material finally collected of this pre-Musta Surma. 74 mins of Finnish cold BM! Sound has vastly more punch than the old tapes. Mastered from original DAT masters!

This is absolutely brilliant.