Give Gestapo SS a listen. Very, um, forthright, though it goes to the point of retardation sometimes unfortunately, but the music is pretty good. Good riffs, good leads, solid stuff overall.

Der Stürmer may also be to your liking.

Just to add the polish band, Fullmoon. I recently purchased United Aryan Evil, which even if I don't like that much, I'm sure all 'sieg heil' fans gonna love it.

Could anyone reccommend to me any bands that sound a bit like Mystifier, specifically on "The World Is So Good...." Somthing with a high creative calibre that still remains to sound and be very evil.

Also, any notable Blackened Thrash in the vein of Bestial Mockery is wanted as well.

Forgive me if this has already been asked.

I have not heard that black/thrash band, but as for black/thrash, I suggest you to check out Necrodeath from greece. I discovered them few days ago (actually I listen only to the first their album) and they impressed me as well. Considering fact, that this output was released in early 1987, it sounds great. Evil blackened thrash.

I know Necrodeath, I have "100% Hell." Good band.

Think more along the lines of Slayer (Hell Awaits-inspired, actually) and Bathory influenced Blackened Thrash. And they don't have to be completely fast and crazy, I'd actually prefer something dark, slow, and brooding.

Watain- Casus Luciferi, and Sworn to the Dark
Sacramentum- Far Away from the Sun
Dawn- Slaughtersun
Lord Belial- Enter the Moonlight Gate
Vinterland- Welcome My Last Chapter (though this is more symphonic)

Deathspell Omega and Blut aus Nord are easily the best bands of those you mentioned; they're two of my favorite black metal bands. They both write some very interesting material. You just can't go wrong with either.

Dark Funeral can be fun, but they're not really very innovative at all so they can get a bit repetitive. They play very traditional, somewhat fast black metal. I recommend The Secrets of the Black Arts, which is probably their best album. You may or may not like it; a lot of people find Dark Funeral a bit bland.

Finally, Xasthur has a couple of good releases; I like Suicide in Dark Serenity and Telepathic with the Deceased. However, I've always had the feeling that Xasthur's discography is too big. Then again, depressive black metal generally isn't my thing.

Can anybody recommend bands that sound like anaal nathrakh

I just got into listening to Melodic Black metal, so I was wondering if you guys could help me. Can someone recommend me something that sounds like Catamenia or Aeveron?

Sons of North are very straight forward. His album art is over the top, but I gotta say musically he writes some memorable black metal, at least on the self titled album.

Early Impaled Nazarene or Niden Div 187 come to mind for the music. If you're looking for something similar to Nathrakh's vocals.. well then good luck.

Ugh, that demo is the most overrated piece of shit I've ever heard. I swear people felate it just because of Darken being on there. There's no atmosphere, the riffs suck, basically the opposite of what reviews say here but damn, IT'S TRUE! Suckage.

The NS scene has produced some great black metal (it does actually happen occasionally...), Fullmoon is not one of those bands.

Oh yes, grooveris: On the Der Stürmer thing, the first album is more sucky than the second, so grab the second if you do grab anything by them. Not a fantastic band but hearing them pretty much rip off Sarcofago's INRI on Dawning Israel's Perdition is priceless.

I have a couple of requests.

Can anyone recommend me good Blackened Doom Metal? I have Gallhammer's Ill Innocence.

Also, good Blackened Thrash Metal? I'd like it tooled up enough to have a Thrashy sound, but Black enough to be noticeably Black.

For blackened thrash, you can't do better than Australia's own Destroyer 666.

To Mr. BrokenPentagram, who has yet to post, but will soon because his request thread got locked, I recommend Totalselfhatred for some great depressive black metal--highly melodic and good production.

The only band I've seen called "depressive black metal" that I've enjoyed has been Nyktalgia, who are brilliant. Sort of like the offspring of Dissection and Burzum. None of that crappy Filosofem ripoff stuff peddled by the likes of Xasthur.

I have a few black metal albums, and I like some blackened death and blackened thrash, but I am unable to appreciate most black metal. Can anyone suggest some classic pure black metal albums (I'd prefer older "must have" kind of stuff from late eighties/early ninetys) that lean toward a cripser sort of riff-based death metal sound -- crunchy guitars, prominant bass licks, double-bass drums with lots of fills and tempo changes, brutal vocals, lots of leads/solos, good production -- that kind of thing. Sorry for the awful description -- I'm groping in the dark here. Maybe I just don't like pure black metal.

Maybe Dissection?

You reminded my first reactions, when I listened to this band. But NSBM it's not about music, is it?

Which Paysage d'Hiver release is the best to start with?

Yeah, I have 1995's Storm of the Light's Bane and I throw it on every once in a while. It's OK. I guess I am looking for more stuff along those lines, but less melodic.

vigilius_haufniensis you can give a shot to Bestial Raids. I've listened Order of Doom so far, and it's quite good.
(black/death rec)

I'm looking for a particular sound achieved by Varathron on their first album His Majesty at the Swamp. This is really atypical Black Metal as the riffs are similar to Heavy Metal and the general atmosphere is quite warm and relaxing. Any suggestion??

definitely check out bands like MASOCHIST, PROFANATICA, DEMONCY, GRAND BELIAL'S KEY, ABSU (go for early 90's stuff)

Hello! I am looking for bands similar to Satyricon from Dark medieval Times to Nemesis Divina (i love Now, Diabolical and The Age Of Nero, but not what i am looking for right now).

Anybody know of some really extreme, yet atmospheric bands along that vein?

PS: Carpathian Forest owns, but i cannot for the life of me tell if they are serious or not. Anybody know?

The vast majority are quite good. My favorites, though, are Die Festung, Kristall & Isa, and Paysage d'Hiver. Die Festung is an ambient release, though, which isn't really representative of Wintherr's work. Kerker and Steineche are also great, so I guess I would recommend checking out the self-titled and Kristall and moving from there to check out the other releases I mentioned. If you like all of them, then you won't have any problem getting into the rest of the discography.

Maybe not early 90's but Germany's Riger and America's Ceremonial Castings often cross into the realm of death metal, two great bands (Ceremonial Castings the better imo as long as you dont mind the addition of keyboards, but they are not over used), def worth a listen

It is when the music is the reason you listen to it!

Edited in the quote, I missed all the posts in between.

The self-titled and Winterkälte were the easiest to find, so I started with them. I'll check out the ones you mentioned next, thanks.

Check out Agatus, Deviser and Zemial's 'In Monumentum'. You will love them!

Fuck yes, check out some of these classic Hellenic bands/releases! I'd also highly suggest looking into Heptameron's "Grand Master of the Final Harvest". Its not very long, but it reminds me a great deal of the Hellenic legends, mixed with a tad bit of early Samael. Concise, killer album.

Also, Hail's "Inheritance of Evilness" is worth a go. I certainly wouldn't describe it as a relaxing listen, but the Greek BM touches are very strong and the band even covers "Unholy Funeral" on it. You may also be interested in Root's "Hell SYmphony", which owes as much to Mercyful Fate as do Varathron ...doesn't have the Greek sound mind you, Root is always its own entity.

im looking for some BM like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoicTieIEFs


with great leads and solos


thx

can anyone point me in the direction of some relatively recent us black metal that doesn't suck shit? i don't want any shit bedroom high school dork that just discovered lords of chaos sounding black metal. i fucking hate bands like CRAPBAIN, NACHTMYSTSEMEN, TOOLS IN THE TREND ROOM, KRIEG, KRAPPISS, and the like.

i prefer bands that lyrically deal with concepts of nature, paganism, and/or national socialism. not so much into bands with joke satanism or psuedo-misanthropy. for instance, i like I SHALT BECOME, VEIL, VELVET CACOON, GRAND BELIAL'S KEY, FANISK, JUDAS ISCARIOT, etc.

again, please don't recommend me your shitty bedroom/myspace projects, i'm just looking for current, underrated black metal bands without cliched image. i'm very familiar with all the old bands, so i don't need any of that.

I'm looking for a band/album that is in the veins of Abigor's first Verwüstung / Invoke the Dark Age.

Basically the exotic nature of the sound, accoustic passages and atmosphere this album had. Any rec?

Have you tried Fog? I don't hear much talk about these guys, but when I was on the hunt for USBM that wasn't awful I was very pleased to stumble across this band. I didn't pay much attention to the lyrics, however. I think they revolve around very stereotypical subjects (Hail Satan?) but aren't written in a ham-fisted manner (HAIL SATAN PISS ON CHRIST!). The focal point is the superb riffing, this holds up throughout. If you're into GBK, specifically the first album, I think there is definitely room for this in your collection.

There is also Inquisition, who I'm fairly fanatical about and you're probably already familiar with. I don't know if they're technically to be counted among the USBM acts, but they are based out of the US now. Once again the lyrics are satanic, but I wouldn't say they come from an ironic or remotely comical stand point. Dagon actually sounds very serious about his satanism. Fuck all that though, who gives a shit what he believes in. What he does is write INCREDIBLE riffs. For only having a drummer and guitarist they are able to create a very dense, ritualistic atmosphere. Every album is great, but I'd probably start with the first.

nice, thanks. FOG is sounding pretty good so far. i'm already familiar with INQUISITION.

Oh, you definitely need to hear Countess. Countess is a one man black metal act from Holland and they happen to be one of the oldest second wave-acts from said country (along with the criminally unknown Bestial Summoning) and sweet fuck of the old do they rock. Quite literally, it seems. You see, Countess isn't just another oldschool black metal act. Countess does happen to black metal of the oldschool variety (hard to say otherwise considering that the band formed in 92') and they certainly do worship the old metal, but there wasn't (and still isn't) a metal band like Countess. Orlok (of Countess) managed to take the sounds of legendary old metal acts like Mercyful Fate, Manowar and other legends, bend it over a black metal frame and throw in a bit of rock n' roll-ish flavor (not to say that Countess is a Black n' Roll band) to create some truly unique and fucking heavy metal. Great band, great discography. There are almost no albums that I cannot recommend.

If you happen to like Countess, then Mountain King should be right up your alley. Just like Orlok, Satorius (founding member of Mountain King) is a riff genius. Every riff on their first 9and currently only) album is fantastic. They are full of rocking, traditional metal glory and it's worth noting that Satorius is worth his salt when it comes to bass guitar work. Basically, Mountain King is a faster Countess. Get Gotos-Antichristus and you won't regret it.

EDIT: Did I mention that I love that guitar in the Mountain King band photo? I do. An inverted cross guitar! It's so over the top that it's brilliant!

Any idea where to find the band's stuff?

Edit: Nevermind.

It's pretty hard to get hard copies, generally. Steineche is virtually impossible to find and the rest are released occasionally in short runs. Occasionally, some of his releases will show up on eBay, but I would suggest that you check the blogs anyway; it's pretty easy to find the demos online. If you wait until you've bought the CDs to hear it, you'll be waiting a very long time to get all the stuff you want (if you're anything like me). I've been collecting his releases but I'm lucky that Metal Haven carries them, which is the only store where I've ever seen them.

EDIT: I guess it's too late to not mind. Anyway, Winterkaelte is also very good, so it's not a bad starting point.