Favorite First Wave Norwegian Black Metal Act.

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....

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!

Bahahaha....I should have expected your comment. I know, I know, .... you're right, but you caught me in a moment of infernal weakness.

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.

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.

youre making a joke

You forgot Frost's wacky Dead inspired self-mutilation performance art piece btw. Not that it's a good reason to see the movie.

That piece was so insanely bad that it ended up being kind of insane anyway.

Great videos!! Also, Darkthrone. I'm surprised that so many people think Vikernes "did it good" as opposed to "fucked it all up".

Musically or criminally?

Artistically, really. The music is good. The crime is bad. It's that point between the two... some comments here seem to imply that Vikernes' notoriety as a arsonist contributes to his overall "metalness". Which one can't deny. But it's the same mentality that puts Ian Curtis and Nirvana-dude on the cover of magazines every year.

Gotchya. Yeah I don't buy that Varg's extracurricular activities have anything to do with the quality of his records (except mayve insofar as their quality has declined since his incarceration.) Don't care about his overall metalness either since he's clearly such a doof.

how old was he when he did all that stuff? 20, 21? crazy time in a young man's life. the drinking and the murdering and the burning, we've all been there.

Sure, but it's not like he's less of a doof now.

prison does strange things to a man. like jon from dissection. makes one of the greatest metal albums of the 90's, kills a guy, goes to prison and becomes even more immersed in satanism, gets out, tours, puts out an album that hardly anyone likes, and then kills himself in a ritualistic suicide. its a story as old as boy meets girl.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Dissection_live_in_2005.png/625px-Dissection_live_in_2005.png

Can anyone translate http://www.dagbladet.no/2009/08/03/nyheter/innenriks/drap/7491438/ ?
http://gfx.dagbladet.no/labrador/749/749146/7491465/jpg/active/960x.jpg
SKUTT I BILEN: 39-åringen satt i førersetet på denne bilen da han ble skutt. Han døde av skadene etter kort tid. Foto: Svein Gustav Wilhelmsen
Ble etterforsket for å ha slått ned Varg Vikernes

Google translation of the caption:

"Skutt in the car: 39-year-old put in the driver's seat of this car when he was shot. He died of injuries after a short time. Photo: Svein Wilhelmsen Gustav
Was investigated for having turned down Varg Vikernes"