Your favorite Death/black metal bands
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Topic: Your favorite Death/black metal bands
Posted By: The T
Subject: Your favorite Death/black metal bands
Date 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...
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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Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: April 09 2008 at 14:00
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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. :( ------------- FREEDOM OF SPEECH GO TO HELL |
Posted By: Modrigue
Date Posted: April 09 2008 at 15:08
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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... ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqf2srRfppHAslEmHBn8QP6d_eoanh0eW" rel="nofollow - My compositions |
Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: April 09 2008 at 15:59
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: April 09 2008 at 16:17
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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) ------------- Hi progmaniacs of all the world |
Posted By: markosherrera
Date Posted: April 09 2008 at 17:00
 OOooH ..The T ...I WILL TAKE YOU.UUU..UU------------- Hi progmaniacs of all the world |
The T wrote:Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: April 09 2008 at 18:04
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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) |
Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: April 09 2008 at 18:30
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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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Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: April 09 2008 at 20:59
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: April 10 2008 at 00:52
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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 ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Avantgardian |
Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: April 10 2008 at 03:34
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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 - 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 |
Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: April 10 2008 at 04:01
| uhm, no one has mentioned slayer? |
Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: April 10 2008 at 04:13
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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Avantgardian |
Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: April 10 2008 at 04:30
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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." |
Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: April 10 2008 at 04:31
| 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. |
Posted By: Plankowner
Date Posted: April 10 2008 at 04:50
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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... |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: April 10 2008 at 08:50
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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...
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Posted By: Apsalar
Date Posted: April 10 2008 at 19:42
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. |
Posted By: BroSpence
Date Posted: April 11 2008 at 03:35
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. |
Posted By: _JC_
Date Posted: April 12 2008 at 19:51
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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?) |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: April 12 2008 at 19:57
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I only really like the ambient bits from Burzum... Dark Tranquility would be good if the vocals didn't suck. Opeth is king to me. ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: April 13 2008 at 04:42
Slayer isn't death metal, they are considered thrash metal and/or speed metal. I've never really heard Slayer referred to as death metal, at most it's Evil Thrash metal, but I can agree with anyone that says Slayer and similar bands are closely related to death metal.
I always tended to see it as, bands like Megadeth, Metallica, Testament and the like were the more melodic thrash bands, while Slayer, Death Angel etc, were the more dissonant and in general more influential on death metal as a genre, while Tallica, Deth and Testament had more of an influence on the late 80s/early 90s prog metal, like Dream Theater etc. ------------- 
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: April 13 2008 at 05:01
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As for my favorite Death metal bands (I never really got into Black Metal to be honest, but I might give it another shot one day):
Opeth
Death
Morbid Angel
Obituary
Arch Enemy (I loved Wages of SIn, but after that I didn't like much of what they had to offer)
Hypocrisy
Kataklysm
In Flames
Dark Tranquility
At The Gates
Necrophagist
Nile
Cannibal Corpse (the later, more technical stuff, not of a fan of their early work)
Cryptopsy
Other than that, I just haven't really listened to much other death metal bands, as I was more of a thrash metal dude than death metal, well at least when Metal was what I listened to more than anything else, which changed when I got into more prog and shred guitar.
I honestly haven't even heard any of the major Death metal bands to come out of my own country, but Metal isn't that big in Australia anyway, let alone Death metal or black metal.
Since I've gotten more into the progressive side of metal, I'll probably check out some more of the progressive death bands soon enough.
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Posted By: Abstrakt
Date Posted: April 13 2008 at 05:15
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Havn't listened to Death metal in a good while, but my favorite bands are:
Atheist
Death
Opeth
I never liked black metal, since 99,5% of it sounds like crap! But i do like one song:
Burzum - Det som en gang var
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 13 2008 at 10:20
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Did anyone ever listen to NOCTURNUS, they are known to be the very first death metal band to use synthesizers, which caused them to be bashed by the close-minded average metal listeners.
"The key" and "Thresholds" are masterpieces of progressive death-metal.
Here is a quote from wikipedia : Nocturnus was an http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States - American http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_metal - progressive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_metal - death metal band formed in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa%2C_Florida - Tampa, Florida in 1987 by drummer/vocalist http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Browning - Mike Browning (formerly of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbid_Angel - Morbid Angel ). They were known for their http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science-fiction - science-fiction themed lyrics and use of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesizers - keyboards , both of which were virtually unknown in extreme metal.
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Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: April 13 2008 at 14:39
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My favourite black metal band is Keep of Kalessin(though some people say they're not really BM, but rather extreme metal. I'm not sure myself). I also enjoy early Ulver. As to death metal, I guess the ones I listen to the most are Death, Atheist, Cynic, Lykathea Aflame, and if you classify them as death metal, Meshuggah.
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Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: April 14 2008 at 13:32
Thanks for reminding me about them, I heard a song off their return album but wasn't too impressed. |
Posted By: Squonkman
Date Posted: April 16 2008 at 13:05
Wow, he actually burned them? Good to know there are some parents out there actually still paying attention and taking an interest in their child's welfare and being a parent.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: April 16 2008 at 13:52
Well... in a way. But really... Venom doesn't kill nobody. Relax anyway, wait till he can't touch your stuff no more and buy all the satanic sh*t you want. Or any sh*t, for that matter. -------------
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Posted By: Squonkman
Date Posted: April 16 2008 at 14:09
My dad did the same thing to my collection of Air Supply cds when I was a kid.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: April 16 2008 at 14:13
Air Supply??
 Man, I can try to understand how Venom can be a bad influence (I can TRY)... at least they're kind of... satanic.... but... Air Supply??? Even the nights are better?  -------------
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 16 2008 at 14:49
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As much as I love pure BM such as Mayhem, Hecate Enthroned and early Emperor and the overy theatric symphonic BM of Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir. My vote would go for http://www.primordialweb.com/ - Primordial - not a pure Black Metal band, but one that has constantly pushed the boundaries and included their own (Celtic) culture and influences into their music. ------------- What? |
Posted By: 1800iareyay
Date Posted: April 16 2008 at 14:53
I don't know, T. If I was a father I'd burn the crap albums. It's gonna be so surreal when I had my future kid a Death CD and he laughs at A)the "huge" size of the CD and B)at how tame he finds them. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: April 16 2008 at 16:47
Well, if my son arrives at home with a reggaeton or hip-hop cd I will have to burn it... for my own sanity...
I can imagine how my son (or daughter even more) would see the cover of Mayhen's De Miisterys Dom Sathanas and say to me: "dad, what the hell?!? I'll have to burn these cds, they may be a bad influence over you"... -------------
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 17 2008 at 17:57
But the two albums I quoted are worth listening.
BTW, I discovered this band after having purchased a tape of "the Key" (metalmind productions ;-) in Przemyśl during holidays spent in the now Województwo podkarpackie in Poland ;-) ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Carheart
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 00:38
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Death metal and black metal are huge loves of mine. I became slightly bored of them which is what drove me to begin listening to progressive music, but I still thoroughly enjoy many black and death metal bands. For death metal, I like Morbid Angel, Death, Guttural Secrete, Defeated Sanity, Prostitute Disfigurement, Immolation, Inveracity, Suffocation, Incantation, Sanguis Imperium, Kronos, late-period Behemoth, Arghoslent, Necrophagist, Spawn of Possession, and Deicide. As for black metal, I love the better known stuff such as Emperor, Darkthrone, Mayhem, and Venom (who are really more thrash than black metal, despite the name of the album "Black Metal"), but also a lot of semi-kvlt stuff like Watain, Deathspell Omega, Ulver, Peste Noire, and Nachtmystium, and really hard to find stuff like Bestial Warlust, Dodsferd, M8L8TH, and Grand Belial's Key. Lately though my favorite stuff has been blackened death metal, which combines the heavy riffing and down tuning of death metal with the rapid fire trem picking and raspy vocals of black metal. Good examples are Belphegor, Infernal War, Destroyer 666, and Satanica-era Behemoth. |
Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: July 29 2008 at 02:05
| I only listen to Nuclear Death, |
Posted By: Katatonic
Date Posted: July 30 2008 at 05:24
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I can't say i like much pure Death metal apart from the obvious ones like "Alters Of Madness" But i love the death /doom genre Katatonia, Daylight Dies, Swallow The Sun etc. With black metal Ulver, Burzum, Mutiilation, Peste Noir and Gorgoroth are among my favorites. |
Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: July 30 2008 at 21:14
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my alltime fav black and death stuff: Conqueror / Revenge - THE most psykotic violent maniacal warblackgrind ever!!!!! and supremely funny too........
Blasphemy - without them no Revenge/Conqueror and hilariously nonsensical 'Canadian war metal'!!
Darkthrone - lords of the tranced-out blackfuzz
Impiety - serious mindbogglingly brutal & violent blackdeath elite assault!!!
All the one-man jokers like Striborg (the maddest!!), Leviathan, Xasthur, Draugar etc etc etc etc...........say goodbye to production values and hello to endless ambient buzz............
Wolves In The Throne Room - can i say their stuff is just so BEAUTIFUL??? epic, sad, misty, u can smell the forest............
Liturgy - Dawn of Ash (think they only made ths one album, but man it is unbelieveably DEEP as in gutteral.........this must be wat some ppl call brutal death grind!)
Anaal Nathrakh - Total f**king Necro (this collection of demos is one of the most nutcase extreme black metal i've ever heard, pity their albums proper are a bit too 'well-produced'.....)
Grindcrusher (not a band but that seminal Earache comp from 1990 or 1989..........blew me away with all the classicks like Morbid Angel, Carcass, Spazztic Blur etc etc etc....)
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Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: July 30 2008 at 21:24
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Death
Opeth
Psycroptic
Cryptopsy
Amon Amarth
Nile
Meshuggah
Necrophagist
Vader
Wintersun
Cynic
Athiest
At the Gates
Gorguts
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Posted By: mithrandir
Date Posted: July 31 2008 at 01:10
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Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: August 02 2008 at 20:55
Dethklok FTW! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/KeiserWillhelm" rel="nofollow - What im listening to |
Posted By: easytargets
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 14:49
------------- The water rushes over all cities crash in the mighty wave; the final man is very small, plunging in for his final bathe |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 13 2008 at 15:33
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I'm studying true norwegian black metal lately... Immoratl was a great band, though not too "true"... Imean, they sound like they wanted to impress at times.... On the other hand, Gorgoroth is pure evil... -------------
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 14:05
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Morgoth ( Odium)
Morbid Angel ( the first four ( and I don´t mean Abomination of Desolation))
Anaal Nathrakh ( Eschaton)
Behemoth ( Zos Kia Cultus)
Dødheimsgard ( 666 International, Supervillain Outcast)
Ved Buens Ende ( Written in Waters)
Pestilence ( Spheres)
Atheist ( I love all three albums)
Cynic ( Focus)
Death ( Human, Individual Thought Patterns, Symbolic)
Zyklon ( World ov Worms, Aeon)
Napalm Death ( The Code is Red...Long Live the Code, Smear Campaign)
Nasum ( Helvete, Shift)
Pig Destroyer ( Terrifyer)
Aborted ( The Archaic Abbatoir)
Paradise Lost ( Gothic, Shades of God)
Malevolent Creation ( The Ten Commandments)
Opeth ( Still Life, Blackwater Park, Deliverance, Ghost Reveries, Watershed)
My Dying Bride ( Turn Loose the Swans)
Angelcorpse ( Exterminate and especially The Inexorable) Very recommendable to fans of Morbid Angel.
Sepultura ( Beneath the Remains, Arise)
Suffocation ( Pierced from Within)
Carcass ( Necroticism - Descanting of the Insalibrious)
Cancer ( To the Gory End)
Macabre ( Sinister Slaughter)
Obituary ( Cause of Death)
Entombed ( Clandestine, Wolverine Blues)
Bloodbath ( Nightmares Made Flesh)
Bolt Thrower ( Warmaster, The 4th Crusade)
Brutal Truth ( Need to Control)
Coldworker ( The Contaminated Void)
Necrophagist ( Epitaph)
Decapitated ( Nihility, Organic Hallucinosis)
Defleshed ( Royal Straight Flesh, Reclaim the Beat)
Deicide ( Deicide)
Demolition Hammer ( Tortured Existence)
Dissection ( Storm Of The Lights Bane)
Edge of Sanity ( Unorthodox, The Spectral Sorrows, Purgatory Afterglow, Crimson)
Enslaved ( Isa, RUUN)
Fear Factory ( Soul of a New Machine)
Sadus ( Swallowed in Black)
Well those are just the few I remember of the top of my head. Extreme metal has meant a lot to me for the last nearly twenty years and it still does.
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Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 15:03
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I f we are talking strictly about death/black Emperor Death (last 3-4 allbums) Arch Enemy (particularly the first album!!! - an absolute gem) At the Gates (pioneers of NWOSDM - new wave of Swedish death metal, especially their last album) Dimmu Borgir (newer stuff) Drank Tranquillity (up to Mind's I) I can't say I like bands like Burzum, Marduk, Mayhem etc.  I have tried some 'straight' black metal like Immortal which I enjoyed at times, but overall I cannot cope with the 'grinding'  oh and don't forget the mighty NILE, excellent band |
Posted By: Avantgardehead
Date Posted: November 14 2008 at 16:08
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Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: November 15 2008 at 07:45
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Still listening to Napalm Death, Carcass, Pestilence or Death. I'm not impressed by the evolution of extreme metal nowadays but I would save pennies for the albums of Genghis Tron, Matriarch or I Wrestled A Bear Once. |
Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: November 15 2008 at 11:08
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wow. i'm quite impressed with this place's taste in metal. what can i say that hasn't already been said? my favs- death metalz- suffocation - effigy of the forgotten & pierced from within gorguts - anything and everything cryptopsy - up to their most recent offering morbid angel martyr atheist origin devourment (brootal stuff) defeated sanity lykathea aflame decrepit birth !t.o.o.h.! immolation deicide (legion in particular) wintersun (more melodic death, but whatever) black - peste noire deathspell omega windir sigh ulver amesoeurs alcest negura bunget drudkh dub buk grand belial's key weakling etc. etc. FolderStart('templates/AcidTechGreen/images/folder.gif'); ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/moe_blunts/?chartstyle=minimalDarkRecent"> 
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Posted By: Prisoner
Date Posted: November 17 2008 at 21:21
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I'm not a big fan of death metal but I'm well into black metal and other extreme metal acts.
Burzum - Great atmospheric BM. A personal favourite of mine.
Bathory - Classic. Nothing compares to this.
Paysage d'Hiver - This invokes feelings of winter.
Summoning - Fantasy inspired BM. An acquired taste to some. Most of their lyrics are about Tolkien's world of Middle Earth.
Drudkh - Highly recommended. Similar to Burzum.
Darkspace - Similar to Paysage in that it invokes feelings of outer space.
Nyktalgia - Obscure depressive Black Metal band. Very promising.
Nargaroth - Herbstleyd is all you need from this black metal band.
Ahab - Awesome funeral doom band. They are inspired by the book "Moby Dick."
Wormphlegm - Funeral doom. Only released a demo which had one great 32:00 minute epic.
Primordial - Great celtic metal band.
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: November 17 2008 at 22:34
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By the way... you should all check out a classic: Satyricon's "Nemesis Divina". One of the best black metal albums ever, with the best riff ever in "Mother north" -------------
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 05:45
this is the most imfluencial black metal voice in the world imo.......
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Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 05:47
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^ Thou shalt not post photos of Mikael Akerfeldt in vain. This thread needs more mentions of Immolation, especially Close to a World Below. |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: November 18 2008 at 08:54
I don't want to sound rude, but this joke isn't funny anymore. Moreover, it's so American-centered that a lot of Europeans mustn't get it: I never heard or read of this caracter until last year. If you're looking for the origin of death metal growlings, listen to the "Piltdown Man" vocal parts on Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells". But this reference to Mike Oldfield may not be a silly joke: in "Choosing Death" (by Albert Mudrian, Feral House, 2004), Mike Amott confess "ripping off melodies from The Exorcist and The Omen soundtracks and stuff like that" when he was playing in Carnage in the late eighties. So, there's at least one death metal band influenced by Mike Oldfield. One last thing about death metal vocal parts: my father made the theory that the originator of such vocal parts was... Captain Beefheart. Yes, he was joking. |
Posted By: Philip
Date Posted: November 22 2008 at 17:21
| If you consider him Black Metal, as I do, my favourite is King Diamond. |
Posted By: sean
Date Posted: November 22 2008 at 18:00
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glad to see Wolves in the Throne Room getting a lot of love around here.
Unexpect
Opeth (preferably the older stuff, like Morningrise and Still Life)
Children of Bodom's earlier works (I like up to Hate Crew Deathroll but Follow the Reaper is their last great one)
Nachtmystium
Strapping Young Lad
I also really enjoy John Zorn's work where he combines free jazz with extreme metal
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Posted By: Petrovsk Mizinski
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 04:30
Finally someone said it!  It was probably funny back in the 80s..........maybe. You know, when they first told the joke. It's 2008, two decades after Death Metal was born and it's an established sub-genre of metal. And yes Death Metal, the joke is about death metal vocals, NOT BLACK METAL. The cookie monster joke has not been funny for over 2 decades. Please let it rest. |
Posted By: Visitor13
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 04:40
| ^ That said I love imagining the Cookie Monster singing Opeth songs. |
Posted By: aapatsos
Date Posted: November 23 2008 at 16:13
Even if I am not a fan of Satyricon, this album is one of the most innovative in black metal I've ever heard... good recommendation |
Posted By: moe_blunts
Date Posted: November 26 2008 at 14:19
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I have to emphasize my admiration for Devourment. They took an intriguing concept and executed it perfectly. True pioneers. this quote sums up how i feel about the band: "Saying that Devourment suck because of the straightforwardness and low-end technicality is like saying you hate water because it's too wet." ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/moe_blunts/?chartstyle=minimalDarkRecent">
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Posted By: UMUR
Date Posted: November 26 2008 at 15:25
And the video for Mother North ! Yummi. I was about to say something indecent, but I´ll restrain myself . Those of you who have seen the video knows what I´m talking about here.
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Posted By: Dim
Date Posted: November 27 2008 at 10:29
WEAK!
Black metal-
Wolves
Early Ulver
Negura Bunget
A forest of stars
Emperor
Enslaved
Drudkh (super recommend this group)
Deathcore-
Job for a cowboy
War from a harlots mouth
Killwhitneydead
The number twelve looks like you
Arsonists get all the girls
Emmure
See you next tuesday
Deathcore is a really underated genre here, I think we should all take an interest in everything that has to do with extreme moshing
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Posted By: kevdog
Date Posted: November 28 2008 at 03:19
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Opeth In Flames Soilwork Dark Tranquility Amon Amarth The Faceless Swallow The Sun Scar Symmetry Dimmu Borgir Mercyful Fate ------------- I look at the world and see no understanding... DT |
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: November 28 2008 at 12:00
| Unexpect sounds interesting. I should check them out seriously. |
Posted By: Tiresias
Date Posted: December 16 2008 at 21:26
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There's a real crossover between this thread and the "lyrical content" thread....lol Black Metal: Burzum, Xasthur, Leviathan, Nachtmystium (Met these dudes. Insanely nice), Skeletonwitch (Live in the same town as these dudes), Peste Noire, Alcest, Bone Awl, Von, Nokturnal Mortum (not for their politics), Dead Reptile Shrine, Abruptum, Mayhem, Darkthrone, etc. Sludge/Stoner Metal: Sunn O))), Boris, Torche, Mouth of the Architect, Electric Wizard, OM, Weedeater, High On Fire, Sleep, Buried At Sea, Jesu, Isis, Neurosis Grindcore / Powerviolence / Hardcore: Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Spazz, Man Is The b*****d, Apartment 213, Behold…The Arctopus, Pig Destroyer, The Locust, An Albatross (INCREDIBLE live show), Genghis Tron, Minor Threat, Black Flag, Crass, D.I.R.T., Harry Pussy Noise: Wolf Eyes, Merzbow, Sword Heaven, Prurient, Whitehouse, Sutcliffe Jugend, Bloodyminded, (literally more than I can name…I’m huge into noise and run my own small label.) I’m glad to see a thread on PA that doesn’t try to assign bands as a subgenre of prog in order to justify liking it.
------------- Wh'ghal ng'fth mglw'y Ry'leh, Cthulhu fhtagn... 
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