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    Posted: April 09 2008 at 13:54
Oh My God I've started a thread about death and black metal. May the Devil take me away...Evil%20Smile
 
If you like any manifestation of these genres or related ones, OK. If you hate these genres, please abstain.
 
What are your favorite death/black/extreme metal bands?
 
 
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I was in a major extreme metal phase a few years ago (which is why I can hardly tolerate the electric guitar anymore) and these are the only bands from the black or death regions whose albums I've kept close:

Burzum
Leviathan (the one-man black metal project flavour of this band name)
!T.O.O.H.!
Cephalic Carnage
Discordance Axis

I couldn't help but notice that a lot of metal bands greatly overlap with one another, so for that reason most of my favourites are notably odd or pioneering in some way. Discordance Axis in particular impressed me as hardly any other grind could.

Yes, I've heard Demilich and Negura Bunget and whatever else cult BM/DM bands but I've lost interest for good, now. :(


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Even if only his 80's albums are black  metal, my favorite band of the genre is undoublty Bathory. Quorthon invented hardly alone two genres : black and viking metal ! (He said he discovered Venom after reading a review of his first album, composed when he was a teenager...) A genius !

Under the Sign of the Black Mark is a gem of a donation to the world of the night.

I also tried Hellhammer/Celtic Frost but couldn't get into them enough...

For more modern black, my fav is Emperor. "In The Nightside Eclipse" and Anthems "To The Welkin At Dusk" define black metal with majestic symphonic touch.

After comes Darkthrone, Immortal ...


Concerning Death Metal, my only loved band is Death. I also tried Morbid Angel, Cynic and Pestilence, but they didn't work for me ...

Even if it's not straight death metal (rather doom/death/atmospheric), I enjoy pretty well Tiamat


Bathory and Death were unique. RIP Quorthon and Chuck...


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they're not quite 'black metal' but i like Dimmu Borgir and still find myself listening to some of their more symphonic songs every once in a while.
more true to their black metal roots, i really enjoy Wolves in the Throne Room (Diadem EP/Two Hunters)
other black/death type metal i dig:
Early Ulver
Early Opeth
some Emperor
Mayhem - i have De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas and ive heard a few songs from their other albums.
Immortal
earlly Arcturus- Aspera hymes something. pretty alright good. not great, but good.
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Death   Black metal..............and related styles.....................
 
Death
Opeth
Atheist
Celtic Frost
Orphaned Land
Emperor
The Faceless
Halo of Shadows
Psyopus
Lumsk
Nomans land
Battlelore
Koziak
Bathord
Dodheimsgard
Soilwork
Cynic
Tiamat
3rd and the mortal
Sirenia
Moonsorrow
Anomaly(jazz metal with  some death and other elements)
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Originally posted by The T The T wrote:

Oh My God I've started a thread about death and black metal. May the Devil take me away...Evil%20Smile
 
If you like any manifestation of these genres or related ones, OK. If you hate these genres, please abstain.
 
What are your favorite death/black/extreme metal bands?
 
 
OOooH ..The T ...I WILL TAKE YOU.UUU..UU
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I love the first Satyricon album.  None So Vile by Cryptopsy is a great example of extreme metal perfection.

Windir is great.
Asmegin.
Manevarn.
At the Gates.
Quo Vadis.
Death.
Opeth.
Cynic.
Sigh.
Sagh.
early Celtic Frost.
Cruachan.
Zoroaster.
Korpkolandi
Tyr
early Dillinger Escape Plan
early Naglfar
Mercyful Fate
Bolt Thrower
Carcass
Napalm Death
Candlemass
Cirith Ungol
Death Angel
Gorguts and Malevolent Creation(sometimes)
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I vein I need to tap into, I like most the black metal I've heard, and same thing with Death metal, but Opeth gets pretty annoying pretty fast.
 
Wolves in the throne room
Becoming the archtype
Early Ulver
Meshuggah
Behold the arctopus
Opeth
Unexpect
 
I really need to find more...
 
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^ try out Dimmu Borgir. they're pretty mainstream and accessible (as far as black metal goes) and very melodic/symphonic. They use a full orchestras on their last (3?) albums and operatic vocals along with the typical black metal screechy-screamy-hiss. good starting point. may i suggest "Death Cult Armageddon"?
But you like WitTR already so you've been initiated. there are a lot of great suggestions on this page.
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Death metal:
Atrocity (old)
At the Gates (old)
Sentenced (old)
Old Funeral
Carcass
Arsis
Disembowelment

Black metal:
Deathspell Omega
Burzum
Leviathan
Lurker of Chalice
Wolves in the Throne Room
Velvet Cacoon
Blut aus Nord
Xasthur
Celestia
Mortifera
Peste Noire
Alcest
Amesoeurs
Shining
Krohm
The Ruins of Beverast
Darkspace
Paysage d'Hiver
Unholy Matrimony
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^^^ nice list of BM there; good to see some French names in there. I'm not sure if you have heard either Mystic Forest and Eikenskaden? they're two of my favourites from the French scene. Also if you dig Velvet Cacoon, you should check out a newish band called Vhernen, they are along the ilk of VC but slower and a little more interesting (imo), though not quite as hypnotic. They use both Electric cello and harp to craft their ambiance. here is their myspace http://www.myspace.com/vhernenblack.

I'm really not even sure where to start discussing this type of music, extreme metal was my entry into music as a wee teenager, so I hold it dearly. But if I were to pick and chose my two favourite bands would be Summoning and Corrupted
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uhm, no one has mentioned slayer?
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Originally posted by Black Velvet Black Velvet wrote:

^^^ nice list of BM there; good to see some French names in there. I'm not sure if you have heard either Mystic Forest and Eikenskaden?


Mystic Forest is on my list of things to listen to again, and I've never heard Eikenskaden yet but I have heard of it.
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As a teenager, I became fascinated with black/death metal for a time... we had a record store in town that seemed to specialize in demo tapes, and so many of these were death/black metal bands..

Had bands like:
Hellhammer who later went on to become Celtic Frost
Death Angel
Slayer (of course)
Bathory (see they were already mentioned)
Destruction
Had quite the Venom collection till my Dad burned them .. heh.  (But Dad those are 30 dollar imports...he didn't care.)
Nasty Savage
Massacre (actually designed the logo for this band)
Obituary
Sodom
Mercyful Fate
King Diamond

It pretty much ended when my Dad burned my Venom albums...  I then went on to find bands like Savatage, Fates Warning, Anacrusis, Sacred Blade, ManOwar, Iron Maiden, Metal Church, Candlemass, et al...

So I pretty much left the genre behind since 1987... though I do find myself throwing Slayer in from time to time ... mainly "Show No Mercy" though "Reign in Blood" gets it's fair share of spins....

I do own some Opeth albums, "Still Life," "Deliverance," and "Damnation."  Of those the only one I spin is "Damnation."  Though I am seeing them with Dream Theater in June....

...and I don't consider Soilwork a death/black metal band (ah I see related, I'll buy that) ... own their whole catalogue and saw them live just last month with War of Ages and Throwdown...

Since where on the topic of related, check out Dry Kill Logic ... they have 3 cds out, for an angry band they have some range... "Darker Side of Nonsense," "The Dead and Dreaming," and "of Vengeance and Violence."
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Which album do you have? My favourite is Romances, took a while for it to skin in, but the classical piano wins me over. The other records don't really hit the spot for me. Eikenskaden is the same guy as MS (you probably already know that), a little less romantic than MS. I can recommend Last Dance. Personally if you have those two albums there is not really too much need to extend your listening. They show both bands at their peak, the remanding are reflections in the mirror.  
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Oh, and...

Angel Dust "Enlighten the Darkness," "Border of Reality," and "Of Human Bondage."

Paradox "Electrify"

Chimaira, Nothingface, Machine Head, All That Remains, Shadow's Fall, Killswitch Engage, Godhead (not extreme really, just a good goth type wanna be beatles kind of weirdness), 40 Below Summer, Motorgrator.. just a few off the top of my head...
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Venom - saw them on the "Seven Date of Hell" tour way back when. They were abysmal, of course. Awesome gig, though!
 
No-one's mentioned Possessed???
 
Death - I really liked their debut, and again, real VFM live. Wasn't so keen on anything they released after the debut, though.
 
Slayer - the best.
 
Dark Angel - borderline Death Metal, more like Dark Thrash, but "Darkness Descends" is one helluvan album.
 
Celtic Frost - just one of my favourite experimental thrash bands - much better than VoiVod (IMHO), and way out there. Again, not strictly Death/Black, but fairly uncategorisable, so I guess they fit anywhere in the realms of extreme metal.
 
Napalm Death. SCUM - 'nuff said, and don't give me the "Grindcore" nonsense.
 
Cradle of Filth - not so keen on Dimmu Borgir or Emporer. Something about CoF's sound and OTT dramatic approach really grabs me and makes everything else seem like a pale imitation.
 
Behemoth - heaviest band in the world to date. Awesomely dense.
 
My tastes are conservative in this area... Tongue
 
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Originally posted by Certif1ed Certif1ed wrote:

No-one's mentioned Possessed???


I actually stuck on Seven Churches this week, been so long since I'd played it. A nostalgic moment indeed, as it was one of my first records.
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Originally posted by schizoid_man77 schizoid_man77 wrote:

Opeth gets pretty annoying pretty fast.
 


I used to like Opeth quite a lot.  Hadn't listened to them for a while until a few months ago.  I still enjoy them somewhat, but I find they get annoying because their main riffs are just based on perpetual sequencing.
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I havent been as involved in this area of music as I use to be, but there still are three black metal bands I have always adored.

Shining (no, not the avant-metal band Shining, the suicidal black metal band Shining),
In Vain,

and, last but sure as hell not least, the almighty...

EmperoR

(Is my fanboy-ism showing?)
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