What's new in the Black/Death Metal world?

[ThrashViking]

Easily the best black metal video ive seen was by a Auckland band Skuldom (Rings a bell SM?)
Anyway, it's pure putrid, fithly & disgusting brutality.
It has this odd looking big fulla wearing a apron with what looks like old ladys skin on it.It includes feces eating, naked chicks getting cut up by a machete, naked ladys bathing in menstral blood & meat bikinis.
A must see. Defnitley not for the faint hearted.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Easily the best black metal video ive seen was by a Auckland band Skuldom (Rings a bell SM?)
Anyway, it's pure putrid, fithly & disgusting brutality.
It has this odd looking big fulla wearing a apron with what looks like old ladys skin on it.It includes feces eating, naked chicks getting cut up by a machete, naked ladys bathing in menstral blood & meat bikinis.
A must see. Defnitley not for the faint hearted.

Lol the infamous meat bikini....

 

[aphelion]

I'd say gothic metal is the best way to describe them.

Anyway, Dusk and Her Embrace was an excellent album. Since then they've been up and down. Midian was okay at best, Damnation and a Day had a few good tracks on it. Don't listen to them much these days though and I certainly would never play them to a non-metal fan - Dani's voice really is a love/hate thing.

NP: Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns

True. If only Dani could exercise a little restraint. He reminds me of Sylvain Houde. Taleted sure, but his ego wouldn't let him ease off when that's what the music called for.

Dusk was the last album of theirs that I really liked. "Cruelty And The Beast" had some great songs but the production was horrendous. I only liked 1 song from "Midian" and I gave up on them after that.

I soon discovered that bands like Anorexia Nervosa, Abyssos, and Castrum (I think the latter 2 have since called it quits unfortunately) do the symphonic/vampire thing much better.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

I soon discovered that bands like Anorexia Nervosa, Abyssos, and Castrum (I think the latter 2 have since called it quits unfortunately) do the symphonic/vampire thing much better.

Did you ever get into Gehenna? They really nailed the Symphonic black thing on their second/third albums back in the late '90s before going off in a more death metal direction for their next couple of albums. I've just acquired their latest album (came out last year) and they've gone back to black metal again but minus the keyboards in a more Darkthrone/Burzum direction. Very cold, harsh and atmospheric. I also picked up a couple of other newish things I've been pretty impressed with recently:
Jesu - Jesu: Justin Broadrick's post-Godflesh project, slow, almost ambient doom soundscapes of reptitive rhythms overlaid with walls of feedback drenched guitar, very hypnotic.
Blut us Nord - Themaatic Emanation of Archetypal Multiplicity: Similar to the Jesu album in it's use of repetitiver rhythms and feedback, but far darker and more oppressive.

 

[ThrashViking]

I got the new Gehenna 'MM' albulm through work, I think it's there most impressive work in a long time.
Reminds me alot of Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

 

[ThrashViking]

Unless your talking about the swedish thrash band Gehennah who did a terrible christmas albulm.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

I got the new Gehenna 'MM' albulm through work, I think it's there most impressive work in a long time.
Reminds me alot of Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

Yes it's the same one, the Norwegian Gehenna. Although you got the title upside down, it's "WW" (deliberately ambiguous reference to world war ort werewolves). I agree it's probably their best since "Malice" and certainly way better than their last (Murder).

 

[aphelion]

Did you ever get into Gehenna? They really nailed the Symphonic black thing on their second/third albums back in the late '90s before going off in a more death metal direction for their next couple of albums. I've just acquired their latest album (came out last year) and they've gone back to black metal again but minus the keyboards in a more Darkthrone/Burzum direction. Very cold, harsh and atmospheric.

Yeah, I didn't mind Gehenna. to start with it was just because I thought Sarcana was cute :lol: (wonder whatever happened to her? I'd like to see if Father Time's been good to her...) Symphonic BM is one of my favourite styles of music and a few years ago I had a mate who was into it as well and he taped me everything up to "Adimiron Black". Later on I bought "Second Spell" and AB as they were the ones that most caught my ear.

AB is right up there with Behemoth's "Pandemonic Incantations" as one of the best black/death crossover albums ever recorded in my opinion. I downloaded a song of "Murder" just after it came out and it was just generic death metal, so I considered them a lost cause after that.

Sounds like WW is worth a listen though, I'll have to download some sometime (can't find anything from it on Soulseek right now).

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Yeah Sarcana was hot. You should like WW, it's definitely blacker than the last couple, although the symphonic elements are pretty much gone, it's quite harsh (in a good way). Check your PMs...

 

[Briza]

http://www.plastichead.com/catalogue.asp?ex=fitem&verb=F&target=1901447308


A-Z of black Metal, I'm ordering one!

 

[HevyDevy]

Have you read Lords of Chaos? Good book.

 

[Briza]

Nope, i'll check it out - cheers.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Have you read Lords of Chaos? Good book.

An interesting read, but the authors have a bit of an agenda and I think it overplays the political/NSBM element of BM a lot. Most black metal isn't particularly political

 

[HevyDevy]

Yeah it does delve into a number of issued completely unrelated to the music at times. Plenty on neo-Nazism etc. That aside, it gives a great history of the rise of BM in Norway, where and how it came from, the actions of the leading protagonists and why it became known as the most violent and controversial form of music at that time.