The Metal Thread Genre • Page 170

i feel like those are the bands that have a lot of technical skill but less skill with creating interesting songs

would rec David Maxim Micic and Intervals

 

I downloaded the newest Intervals records but I haven't listened yet. I'll give it a shot soon.

 

Check the Deafheaven thread. @swboyd recommended some black metal to me the other day in that thread.

 

someone rec'ed me these the other day, posting here for others because they've all been great listens so far

Solefald - The Linear Scaffold
Enslaved - Below the Lights
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernale
Negura Bunget - Om

 

I support these recommendations.

 

Here's some bands that got me into black metal and expanded my taste in the genre

Deafheaven (duh)
Wolves In The Throne Room
Woods of Desolation
An Autumn for Crippled Children
Blut Aus Nord
Altar of Plagues
Bosse-de-Nage
Oathbreaker
Show Me A Dinosaur
Trna
Pyramids
Lluvia
Alcest
Ash Borer
Krallice

didn't pick specific albums since they all pretty much have whole discogs worth exploring, probably forgetting some big ones but yeah check any of those bands out

 

Oh and panopticon

 

Agalloch
Atriarch

 

Ah fuck agalloch too

 

thanks y'all!

 

Deafheaven: Sunbather is a good place to start and a nice intro into the genre. More commercial black metal(if there ever was such a thing)

 

See I fail to see what's commercial or mainstream about deafheaven, their songs are still mad long and dense. They just appeal to fans of other underground genres outside of metal, like post rock and shoegaze, neither of which are mainstream or commercial genres

 

That’s what I am saying, they cross over into the more popular genres, especially what’s popular here on Chorus so they are a nice gateway band into the genre. It’s not a bad thing.

 

Nah i got you I just wouldn't say it's commercial or mainstream both words I've seen used several times

 

Well they did make it to an Apple ad, bunch of SELLOUTS

 

Well, they did popularize Black Metal so it makes sense.

 

if we're just doing bands:

mgla
uada
dissection
immortal
batushka
midnight
drudkh
white death
bone awl
darkthrone
aura noir
xasthur
yellow eyes
krieg
dodecahedron
mare cognitum
moonsorrow
obsequiae
vukari
fin
wode
the great old ones
satyricon
taake
zhrine
the ruins of beverast
beherit
grinning death's head
woe
nechochwen
der weig einer freiheit
mutilation rites
inter arma
thantifaxath
bastard sapling
wolves in the throne room
myrkur
midnight
hellripper
vattnet viskar (not vattnet, big distinction)
abbath
woman is the earth
falls of rauros
beherit
false
young and in the way
venom
haxxan
plebeian grandstand
cara neir
wildspeaker
dendritic arbor
speedwolf
poison blood
dodsrit
owls wood graves
over the voids...

this list isn't just limited to black metal bands...i threw some stuff on here that's blackened in influence.

here's a nifty collaborative spotify playlist that i started with a few other people from this site last year:

feel free to add more to it if y'all care.

 

They wanted a FEW bands, not the entire history. That’s overwhelming and I have heard each one.

 

they're not THAT popular. Under 30k twitter followers, they play like 1k cap venues without selling out, I think their popularity is overstated

 

yeah I left off stuff like inter arma and young and in the way because they're not really black metal

 

what? the list? i got started, and i couldn't stop.

and that's far from a complete history. lol. it's just a list of bands to check out at their leisure.

 

lemme get back to you in a year or two : p

 

Like I said before, bringing black metal into more people's hands (and ears) is not a bad thing. It is a genre that deserves more recognition.

 

Deafheaven is just the band that people (like myself) who aren't really familiar with black metal know. I mean they opened for Lamb of God and Anthrax. Not saying their mainstream, but as far as black metal goes, that's about as mainstream as it gets.

 

as mainstream as it gets doesn't even remotely mean mainstream though so idk why that's the word used when other words are much more fitting, like crossover