DAMN!! THAT'S WHAT I CALL AN OOOOOOLD THREAD.
NOBODY LISTED ENSLAVED YET...

I'M DEFINATELY NOT A HUGE BM FAN BUT I DO LIKE SOME BANDS
EVEN IF IT TOOK ME A VERY LONG TIME TO GET INTO THEM

ENSLAVED, IMMORTAL, DISSECTION, ABSU (ARE THEY CONSIDERED BM?),
SATYRICON (ONLY NEMESIS DIVINA),

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Yes, absu is BM. wow, no one DID say enslaved.

I saw this post when i was looking for Bathory, and decided to put my thoughts in.

I forgot Satyricon. but i havent really heard enough of their material to really have a great opinion on them. But they are better then Emperor..

You fucking idiot, ABSU are not Black Metal, they're Thrash. They say so themselves in several interviews.

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hmm... only bm i actualy know is CoF and Dimmu... i would like to listen to other bands, but i don't know wich ones i should begin with... i think i should try the favourites listed here, but when it comes to bm i'm a bit shy, since lots of bm bands seem to be nsbm (and since you can hardly make out what grunting singers say, i might be listening to some band for months and at the same time at actualy be some facist pigs )

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Hey, have you seen the way Absu dress? They look about as black as it gets. Pity they ain't much good.

Anywho:
1. Satyricon (all o' their stuff is great, but they've changed a lot - early stuff for 'true' BM freaks, the newer stuff is more for psychotic rock & rollers)
2. CoF - From 'The Principal...' through to 'Midian' they hosed all their competition & cut up some fine tunes
3. Emperor
4. Limbonic Art (really an equal third with Emperor ust because of their cool song intros)
5. Hmmm, dunno, maybe Impaled Nazarene just because they're complete cunts & really, really funny because of it.

BTW: I don't personally think CoF have 'sold out' but they certainly sound a shitload different to what they did originally. I think it's basically a case of Dani realising that he can get away with more or less any type of fucked up experimentation because he's actually got a fan base. However, after Midian, CoF have begun to SUCK in an enormous fashion, their music is trite & horrible & Dani is a complete sack of shit & loves himself way too much (I met him when they played in Melbourne for the 'Dusk' tour).

Black metal fucking owns!

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I havent listened to much absu. i saw one of their MP3s under the black metal section of a website. Havent heard anything from them. (*assumed*)

And the poster above me hit the nail on the head about CoF. Now shut up about it.

dude Cof & Dimmu arent black metal
wearing corpse paint/make-up and incorporating keyboards doesnt make a band black metal

early dimmu can be classified as black, but the current direction...definitely NOT !!!

if you want to get into black metal, check these bands out...

Emperor
Mayhem
Immortal
Darkthrone
Burzum
Limbonic Art
Melechesh (thats kinda death-black)

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Genres are lame im not gonna even type what "Black Metal" bands i like cause there prob not even "Black Metal"

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Corroded, old CoF and old Dimmu were. go listen to "Principle of Evil Made Flesh" and "Dusk...and her embrace" from Cradle. Then get back to us on that one, chief.

Cradle and Dimmu Boring are NOT sell outs, u may be asking why, if the sell a lot od cd's, the answer is cuz they have never been BLACK METAL AT ALL.

Black metal isn't about some fucking gay vampires, or some fucking gohtic romance and so, i have friends that love COF, I respect that, but they sure know they are not black metal, they are just some fucking POSERS!!!!!.

Come'n they not even use "corpse paint" and that is not FUCKING CORPSE PAINT, they are not fucking gothics! it is WAR PAINT!!!!!!!! Black metal is WAR and HATE, not castles and stuff, for that is the fucking gothic metal.

Some REAL black metal bands are:

Enthroned
Kult ov Azazel
Judas Iscariot
Krieg
Zemial
Immortal (old)
Mayhem(old)
Conqueror
Inferno
Maniac Butcher


Hear those bands and u will see the have NOTHING to be with cradle of shit and dimmu boring, they are totally different, REAl black metal.

Those black metal bands should tour with ICP then they could paint each others faces!!!

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dude...read my post again...i HAVE mentioned early dimmu can be considered black.

and i have heard dusk & principle

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you said it

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One question, chaos:

Why did you say "immortal(old)" when refering to what is bm? New immortal is just as grim and frostbitten as it ever was.

That confuses me.

and Sorry, Corroded. I must have read you post wrong.

Immortal are sell Outs, you can hear their first records, and the last ones, and you will se a great difference, they only made those last albums fur fucking money.

yeh im sure they made millions off of Damned in Black that must be why they havent release an album in so long, Because there rich now!

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what BLS said. You are fucking stupid, chaos. I bet you cant even define sell out.

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U didnt get the fucking point.

Is not that they sell a lot a Damned In Black albums or so, is that they did not made the album for the music, just to make some fucking money, just like Bruce Dickinson with Iron Maiden, he's only in the band for the fucking money, not for the music.

I'm noy saying Immortal makes a lot of money, like Dimmu, and dimmu are not millionares, but they can live ver VER WELL, with their music, and that is not the black metal spirit.

I guess someone that is not in the underground scene of the black metal, cannot understand this.

Excuse for my bad English, It is not my first language.

I've been into underground metal for years and you are an idiot

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Yeah yeah, and your favourite bands show that XDXDXDXD.

Any TRUE black metal head, would NEVER say burzum and satyricon are his favourite bands, that shows that you really know nothingh about black metal.

I'bet you can't list here 3 underground (not invented) bands of black metal of the EEUU.

I can list you 3 easly here:

Averse Sefira
Summon
Conqueror