Favorite First Wave Norwegian Black Metal Act.

that said, love all these bands except immortal and emperor. it's basically a list of my favorite extreme metal bands aside from those two.

You don't love Immortal? What's wrong with you?

"Anthems is just a remake of that with slightly worse vocals, worse lyrics, worse drumming and terribly mixed to boot."

Complaining about the lyrics seems weird when it's virtually impossible to understand like 95% of what their singing about and that's when it's in English and that's if I tried (I don't cuz I don't want to know what they are singing about in most cases.)

Can I just repeat this one word: Bathory.

Can I just point out that they are Swedish?

lol

Or rather he is Swedish. . .

Can I just point out he's Belgian?

(Stanm)

Can I just say touche?

Immortal don't sound good in my earholes.

Yes, I know he was Swedish, I already said that near the start of the thread. :-)
Just wanted to point out that "it's basically a list of my favorite extreme metal bands" might have also included Bathory (except not on this thread, obv.)

You like Celtic Frost, Stan?

I haven't really checked out enough of their music to answer that, to be honest. :-/
I like To Mega Therion, but that's the only album of theirs I heard, I think.

They're on the "to look up more of" list, just like so many other bands.

Oh yeah, and that Mexican Radio cover! Def. need to check them out urgently, ok.

Over the toppest BM logo: http://i28.tinypic.com/n4fwq8.jpg :-) (There's three words on there. Good luck deciphering them.)

its better than
http://tinyurl.com/nrr5yz

Complaining about the lyrics seems weird

or
http://tinyurl.com/ltz8oy

Also, totally disagree on lyrics. They matter - the whole concept of BM is that it's not "just the music". I always read lyrics before I play the music.

I like Celtic Frost's first two albums more than any band on this poll. Except for Enslaved.

"Also, totally disagree on lyrics. They matter - the whole concept of BM is that it's not "just the music". I always read lyrics before I play the music."

I don't do this with any kind of music. Sounds really dull.

Agreed 100%. Good lyrics are a plus, but generally the majority of music that I like has lyrics which I dislike or am indifferent to. Either on an aesthetic or moral level.

plus also with the reading the lyrics before playing the music, "welcome to autism".

that's meaner than i wanted it to sound, sorry, drunk.

especially daunting when they're in another language (norwegian, elvish)

if you can't read norwegian u have no business listening to troo kvlt black metal tbh

i can get by but its like why waste time when i could skip "step one" and just get necro

http://i43.tinypic.com/30ic7ee.jpg

anyway some of it doesnt even HAVE lyrics!!

i am just teasing u rox

i cant see that jpg anyways haha

how about http://tiny.cc/KUBhY for an illegible logo

Ok ok, I give up. I can't read any of them! The one I linked to supposedly says "Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra" by the way.

i'm fairly new to black metal - i've got a lot of the stuff mentioned in this thread but can anyone recommend any recent more experimental bands?

http://www.myspace.com/byzantum

stan im afraid ive forgotten what bands those logos were from lol. Hope you didn't want to know hehe

one of them was korgonthurus actually. I took note of that one.

and the other was lurker of chalice

Yeah, the filenames on two of them help, I noticed after giving up. :-)

im surprised you couldnt read the lurker of chalice one

Now I know I see it as soon as I look at it - not so with the other ones. This is like staring at stereograms, I can't do those either.

not black metal but this one is unreadable
http://i30.tinypic.com/fzaw45.jpg
Only people who know what it is are those who have seen it on other sites/forums where people go hey can you read this

and im going easy on you by showing you where i got it from
http://www.ladyomega.com/the-most-unreadable-metal-logos-my-13-picks/

why do these sites say unreadable instead of illegible ?

lol check the definition of Metalhead
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=unreadable&page=8#

I thought I saw a W, yay! (because unreadable is what non-english speaking people logically deduce "illegible" is in English)

ahh, i thought it was maybe an actual term im black metal for logos.

btw Stan, does your 'M' stand for Metal?

That Korgonthurus logo is great.

No, it's the first letter of my last name. (xpost)

I'm not _that_ into metal, actually :-)

so this isn't you, Stan?
http://www.thorcentral.com/mp_redesign/images/memorabilia/truemetal-greek-mag.jpg