An obvious one, but Agalloch's Pale Folklore is blatantly inspired by Bergtatt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-zyfxzihqA

Also Myrkur has some nods to Bergtatt, not so strange when both Haavard and Garm worked on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqRHqkWy7ks

Hey guys! I'm kind of new to Black Metal and I've been loving the early albums of Darkthrone, as you already expected the Unholy Trinity and Panzerfaust, I've listened to other bands but I haven't been able to find this type of sound, this rawness which drives me crazy. Would you guys recommend me some bands/albums that have kind of sound? I've found Mutiilation (So far I've only listened to Vampires of Black Imperial Blood, if there's anything I need to know about this band please let me know) quite similar but so far that's the only band I've found with a similar sound, what other bands do deliver this kind of sound?

Thanks beforehand!

Hey guys! I'm kind of new to Black Metal and I've been loving the early albums of Darkthrone, as you already expected the Unholy Trinity and Panzerfaust, I've listened to other bands but I haven't been able to find this type of sound, this rawness which drives me crazy. Would you guys recommend me some bands/albums that have kind of sound? I've found Mutiilation (So far I've only listened to Vampires of Black Imperial Blood, if there's anything I need to know about this band please let me know) quite similar but so far that's the only band I've found with a similar sound, what other bands do deliver this kind of sound?

Thanks beforehand!

I actually came here looking for a few recs similar to Drudkh. I already know many of the similar bands, but I'm trying to find some of the "best" with minimal keyboard and clean vocal use. One of my other current favorites in similar style is Ellende. I have been meditating to black metal a lot lately and need more super chill stuff.

maybe not 100% what you're looking for, but just in case you don't know them yet, what about windswept? a bit similar to later drudkh maybe. I'd recommend the great cold steppe in particular.

You really need to listen to Akitsa. Also probably early Gorgoroth, Judas Iscariot, Urgehal, Horna, Satanic Warmaster, Baptism maybe? I'm sure I could come up with plenty more. Edit: And Vlad Tepes, start with the split with Belketre, one of the best raw black metal albums ever made.

I actually came here looking for a few recs similar to Drudkh. I already know many of the similar bands, but I'm trying to find some of the "best" with minimal keyboard and clean vocal use. One of my other current favorites in similar style is Ellende. I have been meditating to black metal a lot lately and need more super chill stuff.

thanks for the recommendations, even if theres not alot from spain....anyone know any more black/death metal bands from America that are similar to the likes of say....Morbosidad? Going through their stuff right now and seems they are america's answer to war metal pretty much. Someone told me the American scene is quite rife with extreme metal bands yet I only know Kult ov Azazel and Wolves in the throne room and now Morbosidad

I'm really in a Paysage d'Hiver mood lately. Can people recommend me more wintery, spectral, obscure black metal?
I'm aware of Nordlicht.

Dude...get all the Angelcorpse albums. And if you like them, you might also dig the other bands that Pete and Gene were in. Sorry that I didnt have time to list them all at the moment.

Bands in the vein of Ulver?

What are some black (or not black if you can think of any other band) metal bands that have medieval riffs? I mean something like Abigor?

Godkiller, Obsequiae, Aorlhac, Darkenhold, Flamen, Vehemence, Suhnopfer, Tronus abyss, Geisterfels, etc

I'm looking for a very specific (yet not uncommon) sound, which you can find in this song by Ancient.

Soaring, atmospheric, somewhat melodic, with a Pagan tinge if possible.



Thanks in advance.

Der Weg Einer Freiheit is pretty fast, but there's also a lot of variety in the music, and it's musically incredibly good - well, the last two albums are. There's quite a bit more there than just speed and blastbeats, but it's one of the musically strongest bands with high speeds.

VI is also very fast, and musically excellent. The music is more straight-forward, and there's more focus on fast passages and drumming, although the speeds may not be Nile level. They're satanic and more orthodox than Der Weg, if you care about that sort of thing.

Those are the best fast black metal bands to me currently. I don't know why you wouldn't like to give a band a chance if they don't have a slew of albums out. If the music is great, it's not like it was wasted effort, is it?

Decided against Der Weg in the end, not for me, did you know the musicians used to be in a deathcore band? That alone is a put off.

Really? You take that stuff way too seriously.

I don't like metalcore or deathcore, but their band was actually surprisingly good. Terrible name, though.

Black metal is to be taken seriously.

Fair, but as soon as I find out that all the musicians of the band come from a deathcore background, I can not take it seriously anymore. They look it, they sound it. With that, I mean: To me there's nothing black metal about it.

Exactly, deathcore is like the cancer to proper extreme metal, go with the recent polish scene! Loads of legitimate evil and brutal bands from there

What recent Polish bands are you into the most?

I'm not into the recent Polish scene at all. Too poppy for me.

What recent Polish bands are you into the most?