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.
― country matters, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
here's the REAL u.k. answer to black metal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThkCalDdPIw
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:22 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrBsDB4k1Og
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:25 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― country matters, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:32 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― wax onleck, wax affleck (jjjusten), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
you're gonna kick my ass till it burns :(
― country matters, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
have you heard canadias answer to black metal "the silver mt zion" by chance
― wax onleck, wax affleck (jjjusten), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
crack smokers probably responsible for stealing J0hn's cd binders ... don't want to rub it in, but we told you so.
― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
ok sorry i'll stop.
xpost
― wax onleck, wax affleck (jjjusten), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
having a tralala band is so totally burzum dude
― country matters, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
xxp Crack smoking Hood, American Analog Set and Jessamine fans are the worst that way.
― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
France - Ved Buens Ende
whut
(also Bathroy LOL)
― MORBID RANGEL (D-NY) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 02:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone read this?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link
France - Ved Buens Ende (classic)
Yeah I thought this was a Norwegian supergroup of sorts.
― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― someone who is ranked fairly highly in an army of poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 18:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Most annoying but also fascinating BM voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoGkDtPqtbY
― StanM, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
(also, best intro scream ever?)
― StanM, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 19:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Korean 14-year old kid:http://www.aquariusrecords.org/bin/search.cgi/keyword=pyhahauncdhttp://surrealdocuments.blogspot.com/2008/10/pyha-haunted-house.html
(ok ok, this isn't norwegian or first wave, sorry)
― StanM, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― nabisco, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 21:03 (fourteen years ago) link
voted for Emperor, btw
― nabisco, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
but only cuz AmAnSet wasn't an option
Great anagram of "me Satan" there.
― StanM, Tuesday, 28 July 2009 21:08 (fourteen years ago) link
That Korean 14 y/o black metal kid seems like an Onion joke.
― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
he's genuine
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 21:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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 was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 28 July 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
prove it.
― MORBID RANGEL (D-NY) (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 00:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyone else like 1349 ?
― StanM, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
hell yes
― MOAR HUMOR THAN A HUMAN(E) (jjjusten), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 19:19 (fourteen years ago) link
^^
― someone who is ranked fairly highly in an army of poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 19:20 (fourteen years ago) link
the seizure inducing video for "Sculptor Of Flesh" is like the greatest thing ever
― MOAR HUMOR THAN A HUMAN(E) (jjjusten), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, I'd never seen that, thx!
― StanM, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― Soukesian, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe somewhere in the world there's a band of 9 year olds playing black metal
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 23:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 July 2009 01:48 (fourteen years ago) link
a few really great bands there, but i don't hesitate a second in voting for ULVER.
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 30 July 2009 05:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Shame they never managed to top their career highlight Do The Locomotion. :(
― StanM, Thursday, 30 July 2009 06:46 (fourteen years ago) link
thats real
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Thursday, 30 July 2009 07:18 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I see what you're saying, but then most parodies are pretty close to the originals. That's how it works.
― Soukesian, Thursday, 30 July 2009 10:52 (fourteen years ago) link
http://i30.tinypic.com/10ii6gz.jpg
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Going with Burzum
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
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!
― the evil genius of Zaiger Genetics (J0hn D.), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Geir needed to translate http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/08/03/nyheter/innenriks/drap/7491438/
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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$%ked, he certainly was/is THE ONE musician in this scene who both originated the sound AND backed his stuff up....
I voted Burzum.
Btw- for those still determined to see the film- the Harmony Korine BM performance art piece is FANTASTIC....
― Reassuring Drops, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 02:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Bahahaha....I should have expected your comment. I know, I know, .... you're right, but you caught me in a moment of infernal weakness.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 02:24 (fourteen years ago) link
while Burzum was/is totally f$%ked, he certainly was/is THE ONE musician in this scene who both originated the sound AND backed his stuff up....
Well sure, but hard drives were expensive in those days, and being careful with your recorded material is hardly kvlt.
― moley, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 03:21 (fourteen years ago) link
xp Hmmn I think regardless of the movie's "goal", Varg pretty much demonstrates that he is/was a completely unstable person and a total dumbass to boot.
― Alex in SF, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 03:27 (fourteen years ago) link
youre making a joke
― kid cruti (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link