Check out Orrery's Nine Odes to Oblivion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUUZSRKTohM

Could someone recommend me bands similar to Kob (RUS) ?

Hi, I'm pretty big into black metal, but it just occurred to me that I've never heard much of depressive black metal. I was hoping some people here could give me a few pointers into the classics of the subgenre.

There's no better start to DSBM than Mutiilation's "Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul".

Looking for a band like Diamatregon, but with no sampled elements. Clear but raw sounding, etc.

Can anyone suggest some contemporary (2000 - present) raw black metal that feels "fresh"? As in not something that's just rehashing LLN or Darkthrone, etc. I'm thinking mainly Bael, S.V.E.S.T. and The Ruins of Beverast. No NSBM please.

Katharsis
Azaxul
Teitanblood
Deathspell Omega
Funeral Mist
Craft
Armageddon
Hellsaw
Pest
Urgehal
Peste Noire
TsJuder
Urfaust

Some more modern raw black metal, if you haven't already heard of it. Try checking out bands from the Black Twilight Circle like Volahn and such too.

Thanks! I'm familiar with some of those bands, but will definitely check out the rest. Do you mean the German or the Finnish Pest, by the way?

-| Classics
Hypothermia - Gråtoner
Hypothermia - Köld
Life is Pain - Bloody Melancholy
Life Neglected - Bleeding Hope
Make A Change... Kill Yourself - Make A Change... Kill Yourself
Nae'blis - Sketches of Reality
Nyktalgia - Nyktalgia
Sterbend - Dwelling Lifeless
Trist (Cze) - Zrcadlení melancholie
Trist (Cze) - Sebevražední andělé
Trist (Cze) - Stíny
Wigrid - Die Asche eines Lebens
Xasthur - The Funeral of Being

-| Larger list (including the releases mentioned above)
Blutklinge - Reflection of a Bleak Mind
Deep-pression - I walk the life in depression
Défaillance - Contemplation Misanthropique de l'Humanité...
Gris - Il Était une Forêt...
Hypothermia - Gråtoner
Hypothermia - Köld
Hypothermia / Durthang - Lead Yourself to Failure
Impavida - Eerie Sceneries
Korium - The Pendulum of Sorrow
Life is Pain - Bloody Melancholy
Life Neglected - Bleeding Hope
Lustre - Serenity
Lustre - Night Spirit
Make A Change... Kill Yourself - Make A Change... Kill Yourself
Nae'blis - Sketches of Reality
Nyktalgia - Nyktalgia
Saol - Eerie Isolation
Sterbend - Dwelling Lifeless
Todessehnsucht - Stillstand
Trancelike Void - Destroying Something Beautiful
Trauer - Hungrig durch die kalte Nacht
Trist (Cze) - Za hranicí skutečnosti
Trist (Cze) - Zrcadlení melancholie
Trist (Cze) - Sebevražední andělé
Trist (Cze) - Stíny
Trist (Cze) / Korium - Split
Wehmut - Wehmut
When Mine Eyes Blacken - When Mine Eyes Blacken
Wigrid - Die Asche eines Lebens
Würm - Aux portes de l'agonie
Xasthur - The Funeral of Being

-| As a later addition (that is, if you like the rest):
Acedi - Askese
Angest Herre - Le Dernier Râle des Negs - Esquisse
Anti - The Insignificance of Life
Brocken Moon - Mondfinsternis
Kilte / Funeral Mourning - Emission through Self-Infliction
Kyla / Life Neglected - With Destructive Intent
Lost Inside - Cold Days
Managarm - Poems of the Shadows Disappointment
Marnost - Pukající Svět
Unjoy - Worthless Life End

-| What you should avoid at all costs
Apati
Hanging Garden
Happy Days
Hypomanie (with the exception of their instrumental shoegaze album ''A City in Mono'')
I'm In A Coffin
Livsnekad
Nostalgie

What you also should avoid are most releases from Self Mutilation Services and most bands and projects from South-America (with possible exceptions being 'Thy Light', 'From the Sunset, Forest and Grief' and '78424325'). As another general rule, you should avoid the projects or bands that involve A. Morbid from the USA as a main member. There might be some exceptions (like the album from Secretly in Pain) but most of the time it's mediocre nonsense.

Still waiting for some recommendations if any ones up for it!

Thanks!
I'll start digging in now.

If you fancy some drone added in, you might check out Berghest.

With Watain gaining popularity, are there any bands completely aping Sworn To The Dark and Lawless Darkness?

Noctiferum - Serenades of the Impure, great demo what's very similar to Watain.

Seconded.

When I was little, an older friend of mine gave me a black metal album to listen to. From what I can remember, it must have been a concept album, based on the creation of life, and eventually, the destruction of it. The first track started with lightning and other loud noises, symbolizing the beginning of life and the last track ended with people running and screaming. It may be the exact opposite, but I don't think it matters. So, which album could it be?

Any black metal bands that uses trumpet like Sear Bliss and Den Saakaldte?

Sigh`s "Scenes From Hell" uses a lot of trumpet, played by the hot chick who also growls. Great album, if you ask me. Dunno about trumpet usage on the rest of their discography, though.

You'd probably dig Political Terror's "Bastard Beings" demo. And ideologically it's even the exact opposite of NSBM (it's anarchist), too...here's the whole thing in a video (only 5 songs and most under 2 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1p9Psxlrdo so yeah, if you dig it you can find a download on the Red And Anarchist Black Metal blog (as well as a lot of other great stuff).

SIGH isn't my cup of tea, nor do I think a female being in the band makes it a big deal to be mentioned

Does anyone know some in sound related bands to ''Die Toten kehren wieder mit dem Wind'' from Germany?

Track from DTkwmdW

Thanks a lot for the suggestion. I love RABM as an Anarchist myself.

Just bumping what I posted earlier:

^Pretty vast request, so I'm just going to recommend some bands that I like:

Dissection (first two full-lengths)
Immortal
Dark Funeral
Vinterland

You should check out Quebec's depressive black metal scene; there is a lot of great stuff. The best, in my opinion, is Gris's second album. Hands down my favorite depressive black metal album of all time. Sombres Foret's second album is also amazing. Those two bands did an album together under the moniker Miserer Luminis and that was good too. Sui Caedere's album Threne is really good too. I'm not sure if this would count as depressive black metal or not, but Neige et Noirceur's 2010 album was really good and had a lot of variety, with prominent ambient and traditional Quebecois folk sections.

Here's a sample of Gris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvbroNo-g5I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ1FddQV ... re=related

I'm looking for some bands who are similar to "Transilvanian Hunger"- but good, standout, bands, not any of the 28957238573218975982135 mindless, mediocre clones. Can anyone help me out?

Fraid all the bands are mediocre. After all, that number of mindless, mediocre bands exceeds the number of bands that currently exist so time loops are apparently already involved. Guess you'll have to live in a world where your request is unfulfillable. Of course, you could drop the nonsense about all bands being worthless clones and whole worlds might open up for you... Crazy thought.

Well I don't really care if they're clones (if a band sounds good, I don't care if they're ripping off another band) so much as I don't want them to just be uninteresting...though if it's unfulfillable it's unfulfillable, I guess.

I literally have no knowledge of black metal but I want to listen to some. The closest thing I've heard is Agalloch and that's awesome. Help?

Darkthrone's "A Blaze in the Northern Sky", Burzum's "Det Som Engang Var" and Mayhem's "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" are the logical place to start.

check out Immortal ''At the heart of Winter'' is my fav and one of their most accessible and Marduk (maybe Nightwing or La Grande dance macabre?) to start too

I recommend those three particular albums I mentioned because the are the essential blueprint upon which pretty the "standard" form of black metal expounded. Take Darkthrone's residual 80's influence, Burzum's ambient riffing and Mayhem's aesthetic trappings and you get... Gorgoroth?

Emperor and Immortal are in there somewhere, maybe...

hey, i know its usually considered "hipster black metal" but i love the sound of the post-rock black metal thing thats going on.
any bands i should know about?

the ones i know and enjoy include:

altar of plagues
fen
a forest of stars
woe
a forest of shadows

No, there aren't any important bands like that. You're cool.

I love it too. Try these ones as well:

Deafheaven
Krallice (probably the most intense of them all, and my favourite)
Amesoeurs
Wolves In The Throne Room
Lifelover
Lantlôs
Heretoir
and, probably you already know about them... Agalloch.

Thanks man. I had heard of Darkthrone before and seen the Transilvanian Hunger album cover a lot but never gave them a listen. I'll come back when I listen.

thanks man, glad you agree.

and ill check out those bands. agolloch i dont like, but WitTR are pretty good. and lifelover have some good stuff, as far as the others ill have to give em a listen. thanks for the recs.

edit: oh and kralice, yeah theyre great.

^Check out Arkheth, too.

@VindictiveSecondSoul

Check out Panopticon, Skagos, Marnost (only one song out, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g9L1_Ad934 ), Vessel I, and Ash Borer

thanks guys.