Favorite First Wave Norwegian Black Metal Act.

i was looking forward to the gig :(

u.k. answer to black metal would be 80's grind and crust. black and white artwork. hatred for everything. really fast. really violent. great band logos.

i like when you get the best of all worlds in one band. like skitsystem. swedish d-beat death crust metal punk. it's like one stop shopping.

really excited about the growing war crust movement for that reason.

haha i'd play a JD missing vowels game but that'd be asking for trouble

<3 etc and you are ever cool with me as well but seriously, track down those thieving bastards and reclaim your hood. the album 'rustic houses, forlorn valleys' especially sounds to me what you'd get if you took the moral and artistic aesthetic of BM and applied it to English folk traditions; it's hypnotically repetitive, songs share melodic patterns if not actual melodies, and a very English glumness (as opposed to the snowy wilds of Norway) is given an almost spiritual bearing. Where there were fuzzed, trebly electric guitars are now found clean, dour acoustic or semi-acoustic refrains, woozy horns and the occasional distorted squall. Where there were blastbeats are now jazzy but insistent plods. Where there were keyboards, there are droning violins. Where there were shrieks, there are shy and retiring mumbles, or strangled, distant moans, which convey an extremely depressive and national sort of horror, not quite as striking as damned-soul pagan concerns but deeply haunting nonetheless. Songs move in leisurely fashion, the mood barely progressing but becoming more devastatingly single-minded as each song goes on, the sheer pitch of mood rising with every subtle musical development. Even the ambient sections are racked with a desperate, claustrophobia-inducing suspense. In these regards, I would say that Hood offers a fine counterpoint to BM, and I plan to flesh my argument out further some day.

Right, now it is time for me to stfu 2. Scott carry on plz, and maybe with youtubes.

here's the REAL u.k. answer to black metal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThkCalDdPIw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrBsDB4k1Og

scott you do realise that i have fallen completely in love with this band after 1.5 songs

i thought you might like to know that

and yeah, flippant as it may have sounded, these guys seem to have something darkly mystic and deeply national about them

i want to talk to you about this "hood" band lj but first i need to know if "smoking crack" is a term understood by you britishers because i am trying to make sure that i formulate my argument in a way that will resonate with you

you're gonna kick my ass till it burns :(

have you heard canadias answer to black metal "the silver mt zion" by chance

crack smokers probably responsible for stealing J0hn's cd binders ... don't want to rub it in, but we told you so.

ok sorry i'll stop.

xpost

having a tralala band is so totally burzum dude

xxp Crack smoking Hood, American Analog Set and Jessamine fans are the worst that way.

France - Ved Buens Ende (classic), later Deathspell Omega etc...
Sweden - Bathroy (classic), Dissection (2nd wave), and the first Necrophobic album (which WAY more people need to rep for)
USA - Ludicra

France - Ved Buens Ende

whut

(also Bathroy LOL)

speaking of ved buens ende and czral aka carl-michael eide (and hey what about aura noir) the virus album i got of his from season of mist was, um, fucked up. i didn't really dig it. but people who like the latest manes and dhg might dig it.

Anyone read this?

France - Ved Buens Ende (classic)

Yeah I thought this was a Norwegian supergroup of sorts.

I think it's "blackened grindcore" or something but I really dig The Codex Necro by Anaal Nathrakh for UK BM. Not so keen on their later stuff tho.

Most annoying but also fascinating BM voice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoGkDtPqtbY

(also, best intro scream ever?)

Korean 14-year old kid:
http://www.aquariusrecords.org/bin/search.cgi/keyword=pyhahauncd
http://surrealdocuments.blogspot.com/2008/10/pyha-haunted-house.html

(ok ok, this isn't norwegian or first wave, sorry)

omg, I feel weird saying this but I sort of get where LJ is coming from with Hood -- might say the same thing about something like Crescent. I don't know that it's actually relevant to actual black metal in any way, but I think I get what he's shooting for.

voted for Emperor, btw

but only cuz AmAnSet wasn't an option

Great anagram of "me Satan" there.

That Korean 14 y/o black metal kid seems like an Onion joke.

he's genuine

I don't doubt it. It's still the kind of extra-curricular nonsense that matters more than music itself (although given that we are talking about a genre that a huge portion of people have heard of because of extra-curricular nonsense it's only fitting, I suppose.)

he's genuine

prove it.

Anyone else like 1349 ?

hell yes

^^

the seizure inducing video for "Sculptor Of Flesh" is like the greatest thing ever

Wow, I'd never seen that, thx!

xpost: I don't know definitely about Pyha, but Metal Archives lists a ton of South Korean BM bands. (Apparently it's the most Christianized culture in the region.) Downloaded some projects by an SKBM dude called Barbarous, and it's batshit crazy in the best possible way - just not enough of it!

maybe somewhere in the world there's a band of 9 year olds playing black metal

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a few really great bands there, but i don't hesitate a second in voting for ULVER.

Shame they never managed to top their career highlight Do The Locomotion. :(

thats real

i never got past the frog-in-throat vocals of immortal or the song titles/lyrics which might as well match word for word those black metal parodies that emerged on the net years after the event.

I see what you're saying, but then most parodies are pretty close to the originals. That's how it works.

http://i30.tinypic.com/10ii6gz.jpg

Going with Burzum

omg you Alex in NYC are so not voting against Darkthrone in this poll, you have got to be kidding me. get ahold of yourself man!

Geir needed to translate http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/08/03/nyheter/innenriks/drap/7491438/

Just saw the shallow and disappointing "Until The Light Takes Us" BM doc, consisting of: extensive interviews with Gylve (Darkthrone) and Varg (Burzum), plenty of low-grade video footage of burning churches, a cringe-inducing side story of a Norwegian artist making his career co-opting BM aesthetics in the Oslo art world, and....not. much. else.

Utterly forgettable, unless the goal was to validate Varg's amateur philosophical musings as justification for church burning and rival murder.....which the film kind of does accomplish....

My point being this: while Burzum was/is totally f$%ked, he certainly was/is THE ONE musician in this scene who both originated the sound AND backed his stuff up....

I voted Burzum.

Btw- for those still determined to see the film- the Harmony Korine BM performance art piece is FANTASTIC....