Favorite First Wave Norwegian Black Metal Act.

Complaining about the lyrics seems weird

or
http://tinyurl.com/ltz8oy

Also, totally disagree on lyrics. They matter - the whole concept of BM is that it's not "just the music". I always read lyrics before I play the music.

I like Celtic Frost's first two albums more than any band on this poll. Except for Enslaved.

"Also, totally disagree on lyrics. They matter - the whole concept of BM is that it's not "just the music". I always read lyrics before I play the music."

I don't do this with any kind of music. Sounds really dull.

Agreed 100%. Good lyrics are a plus, but generally the majority of music that I like has lyrics which I dislike or am indifferent to. Either on an aesthetic or moral level.

plus also with the reading the lyrics before playing the music, "welcome to autism".

that's meaner than i wanted it to sound, sorry, drunk.

especially daunting when they're in another language (norwegian, elvish)

if you can't read norwegian u have no business listening to troo kvlt black metal tbh

i can get by but its like why waste time when i could skip "step one" and just get necro

http://i43.tinypic.com/30ic7ee.jpg

anyway some of it doesnt even HAVE lyrics!!

i am just teasing u rox

i cant see that jpg anyways haha

how about http://tiny.cc/KUBhY for an illegible logo

Ok ok, I give up. I can't read any of them! The one I linked to supposedly says "Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra" by the way.

i'm fairly new to black metal - i've got a lot of the stuff mentioned in this thread but can anyone recommend any recent more experimental bands?

http://www.myspace.com/byzantum

stan im afraid ive forgotten what bands those logos were from lol. Hope you didn't want to know hehe

one of them was korgonthurus actually. I took note of that one.

and the other was lurker of chalice

Yeah, the filenames on two of them help, I noticed after giving up. :-)

im surprised you couldnt read the lurker of chalice one

Now I know I see it as soon as I look at it - not so with the other ones. This is like staring at stereograms, I can't do those either.

not black metal but this one is unreadable
http://i30.tinypic.com/fzaw45.jpg
Only people who know what it is are those who have seen it on other sites/forums where people go hey can you read this

and im going easy on you by showing you where i got it from
http://www.ladyomega.com/the-most-unreadable-metal-logos-my-13-picks/

why do these sites say unreadable instead of illegible ?

lol check the definition of Metalhead
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=unreadable&page=8#

I thought I saw a W, yay! (because unreadable is what non-english speaking people logically deduce "illegible" is in English)

ahh, i thought it was maybe an actual term im black metal for logos.

btw Stan, does your 'M' stand for Metal?

That Korgonthurus logo is great.

No, it's the first letter of my last name. (xpost)

I'm not _that_ into metal, actually :-)

so this isn't you, Stan?
http://www.thorcentral.com/mp_redesign/images/memorabilia/truemetal-greek-mag.jpg

Um, no. I look more like Frank Black :-/

I can make out Wa***g the Cadaver

i'm fairly new to black metal - i've got a lot of the stuff mentioned in this thread but can anyone recommend any recent more experimental bands?

serious as uncranky-as-I-can-be-about-it q: why do people always want the "experimental" stuff first - isn't that a way of saying "I really don't much care for the genre but when it's informed by other genres then ok maybe"?

can you recommend me some reggae that sounds like rock music

redemption song my boo

ty

Obviously all of these boring, by-the-numbers bands aren't experimental enough.

in the real world all kids are exactly like LJ clearly

who needs paper thin guitars, blast beats and nature worship when u can have a whole LP of boring sludge drones from the latest southern lord signee.

lolj.

LJ will be running a best avant garde black metal poll to go along with this one.

learn to crawl imo

i don't agree. for one thing, i don't believe there is a right or wrong way to familiarize yourself with a genre. the one bit of advice i would give anyone who was listening to stuff for the first time: dig in! listen to lots of stuff. bad and good. figure out what you like from there. and don't worry too much about people's lists and such. as far as starting with the more traditional...i don't get it. start wherever you like. and why do people gravitate to the "craziest" and most "out there" or most experimental examples of a genre first? because this can be the most fun place to start for an adventurous music fan. a lot of people who post on ilm enjoy the sui generis in lots of genres. it's simple curiousity. who took the genre the furthest? who was the most bonkers country/rockabilly/r&b singer of the 50's? you know? and i think if people start with that kind of stuff and like what they hear they might be more curious to hear where the music began. who were the pioneers? this is often true of rock fans. they start with the "crazy" free jazz and later, if they truly enjoy the stuff they hear, then they go back in time and learn to appreciate the more prosaic, but just as rewarding, pleasures of bop or hot jazz or whatever. once someone starts, wherever they start, you never know where thy are gonna end up.

<3

and now, Mayhem

just always gonna disagree w/ you on this one scott, I think it's bullshit when people take The Metal That's Most Comfortable For Me and then champion it as The Most Awesome Metal when they kinda don't know what they're talking about

feel the same way in other genres & fields too, my position is if you don't have a hunger to learn the history then you're doin it wrong

I know this is an obnoxious super-orthodox stance to take but what can I say, I'm a Catholic.

btw De Mysteriis was sweet, Ordo Ad Chao also sounding like it knows its plain evil from its megasuperdemonic

awesome is subjective, because it is my own awe kthx

mind you I am only too happy to have the important classic stuff impressed upon me, because one day it will stick and it will be like joining a particularly awesome club of people who understand why shit like this happens in the first place