Favorite First Wave Norwegian Black Metal Act.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/214/448035710_a67aa9d7dc.jpg?v=0 will walk this

Yeah as much of a douchebag as the dude is, it's kind of hard to argue that even amongst a crowd of great records (and all these acts produced great records IMO) his first four albums really stand apart. That said I think I'm going to vote Immortal just to be contrary.

1. Darkthrone
2. Burzum

Immortal

i knew you would vote for them norm

I was going to vote Emperor (edging out Burzum and Darkthrone) but I clicked on Enslaved by mistake. But I like them plenty, too.

Darkthrone

would vote for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98GXT6tvzs8 for the scope of their catalog, but if we're talking just on their BM merits it kind of has to be burzum

LMFAO

hahahaha oh god damn it, dan has gotten me once again with the mod substitution trick, that youtube substitution should be u.lver

LOL I was wondering what the hell?!?!?

ws that first wave norwegian black metal act

are we judging all the first few records against each other or their entire catalogs? if the former, darkthrone. if the latter enslaved.

Whatever criteria you want.

i change my vote to minogue

my chuck eddy vote

Got to go with the count here. My favourite Black Metal act of all time.

emperor for me.

too skeeved out by varg to really give the burzum records much of a chance tbh.

I always forget that Bathory wasn't Norwegian

Ulver!

hang on so are we saying "favourite band out of these bands" or "favourite black metal band out of these bands"

because although I'm voting Ulver anyway (one of my 3 favourite bands ever) I'd like to know why

Can't really decide this one at all but will most likely vote Emperor.

My favourite out of these bands is Burzum, but he's one the least black metal sounding of them all :-/

Then - Emperor
Now - Enslaved

Funny that they debuted on a split together that was neither's best work.

emperor

Darkthrone.

I think the Emperor/Enslaved split is pretty good, personally. But then I'm not much of a fan of either band's later stuff really.

Went for Emperor, although there are a bunch of good ones in there.

In case anyone is wondering what this music sounds like, here's two famous songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVF3M_dn7sI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjFmFukl1jM

No burzum vids?

Excellent stuff, StanM

Yes! Two! http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=8-bit+burzum&search_type=&aq=f

(xpost) and :-) , there's a lot of 8-bit metal out there for some reason (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F8080C2B70655081 )

wow, there's more than two.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Cj_EVnuMs

The Darkthrone one actually sounds a bit like Striborg. Until the heya heya polkasection kicks in, that is.

I like the more recent stuff by Enslaved and Satyricon better (I know, probably blasphemy but whatever), so I think I'm going to have to vote Emperor.

Voted Darkthrone. My Norwegian forestcat is called Fenriz, so that's a no-brainer really.

found this on youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luFCBdS5PAs

Whoah, this is hard. To me, Immortal are the quintessence of black metal in the sense that "Pure Holocaust" pretty much exemplifies what the genre is about and would be the record to give somebody who didn't know anything about this genre, while the Darkthrone story and the way they've changed over the years make them a far more interesting band, but less likely to "exemplify" a bigger genre. Darkthrone is Darkthrone and they've evolved many times. Same with Burzum- undeniably high peaks, but such a specific and truly individual case, esp. in the jump from the first records to the Casio/prison era. (reminds me of the debate about what was the greatest goth band- the best ones are too thorny and particular to easily exemplify a movement)

No idea, really, but voting Mayhem since I went to the same school as Øystein Aarseth.

Drew please post *that* pic of you wearing your Burzum shirt :)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3019/2973592054_8883935155.jpg

but my heart belongs to . . .
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3418/3354729329_1d57d05ae4_o.jpg

hehe I love that pic.
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ok i always avoided a lot of these bands due to the nazi connotations. If i was going to listen to burzum, which album should i download?

filosofem

tossup 'tween burzum & darkthrone btw

i can't believe Geir is the only person on this thread who has mentioned Mayhem yet. Where is the love?

might vote darkthrone tho, for 'panzerfaust' alone but they've also got all those other great early albums

Dude, I can see those matches in yr pocket.

x-posts

maybe satyricon?!

I'm sure most of them wear more make-up than most girls.

Who do girly BM bands sing about? Satangela? Satannie?

is this belgian wit

:-(

who will win?

Did people vote for

Favorite First Wave Norwegian Black Metal Act - 1992-1996

or

Favorite First Wave Norwegian Black Metal Act - whole career until now

?

The first, but that's mostly cuz I don't give a shit about most these bands post-96 (Immortal and Mayhem are maybe the only two exceptions.)

I voted in the second style.

the answer is darkthrone then now and always

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

lol louis

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha omg

did you vote 34 times?

i voted once, as god intended

hmmm

roll call the 129 ilx users who give a shit about this poll

1. me

I was torn, I voted Filosofem in the Terrorizer poll, but went with Emperor.

You could have had the casting vote.

2. me

Although I think the results are super-hilarious.

almost voted Burzum, went with Mayhem instead.

What the!

Shenanigans?

do you mean the strong showing by girly metal?

voted darkthrone.

Acrostic: bud ee miss.

do a USBM poll!

I haven't read the thread but I don't understand how Mayhem didn't win this

and how Immortal placed even lower than Mayhem =(

because not enough people voted for them? :)

stan seems upset with the results

pig-biting, church-burningly upset

All these fine bands worship my near-namesake, how could I not be upset that some of them received no votes at all?

Burzum is overrated.

Satyricon not only getting no votes at all, but coming in three votes behind the "any other band" option seems pretty harsh.

I don't know their stuff - what did they do to deserve this?

I thought they kind of sucked when I heard them.

you know what you're overrated

xpost

"I don't know their stuff - what did they do to deserve this?"

No idea. Dark Medieval Times >>> anything Ulver ever did.

I'm a big lover of Nemesis Divina. The first track has a weird sound in it. My friends asked me to identify it when they first bought the record. I listened once and declared that it's obviously the sound of a sword being pulled from a scabbard. I know about these things. NATHAN CARSON!

Hail Nathan \n/

"you know what you're overrated"

Don't blame me, I voted for Emperor.

Xpost: "Dark Medieval Times" is indeed a fine and singular work, a perfect mix of minimal synths and icy blasting. Thanks for the tip!

Dark Medieval Times is a strange album. It's laughably incoherent, the songs are just collections of three, four completely unrelated riffs stitched together. Every song has at least one or two moments where there's a brief pause with some feedback before the next segment kicks in. The album is only held together by that amazing guitar sound and the vocals. It's proof that the lack of any songwriting skills doesn't stand in the way of a decent career.

Works for me. Maybe I've spent too much time listening to LLN side projects.

"It's proof that the lack of any songwriting skills doesn't stand in the way of a decent career."

Or in the way of making a great album!

what the fuck

http://www.collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=160333180809

'mother north' from nemesis divina shows astonishing songwriting skills. but it's a total flash in the pan, a real "where the fuck did that come from?" moment. even that album has its share of bizarre fragmented half-songs.

Vlad Tepes/Belketre split (both parts great), the Mutiilation debut. Mutiilation's "Remains..." also very good, similar to Darkthrone "Under A Funeral Moon". Rest of the Legions Noires stuff not really so good except Seviss and Black Murder, all those countless demos by the Vlad Tepes guys have their moments but also a lot of crap. Torgeist sucked.

Vlad Tepes/Belketre split is amazing, as is Belketre's Ambre Zuèrkl Vuorhdrévarvtre demo. Really, these guys were pretty much THE kvltest BM band out there, along with the whole LLN scene in general. The funny thing is I listed to Belketre's pre-BM demos in their Zelda and Chapel of Ghouls guises, and tho just as lo-fi and obscure-sounding as Belketre, are mMUCH more death-metal oriented, even carrying a fair bit of Mr Bungle-esque muso-experimentation. What a weird group of people! Perhaps even more drastic a transformation into BM than Darkthrone made from their first record to their second.

(also fascinating is the amount of money these demos go for on eBay, and their continued bootlegging by people tangentially related to the band)

Yeah I've got a few of the Legions Noires albums, probably not a bad idea to offload them. Ildjarn albums also seem to fetch crazy prices.

Can I just repeat this one word: Bathory.

― StanM, Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:16 PM bookmarkflaglink

Can I just point out that they are Swedish?

― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:16 PM bookmarkflaglink

lol

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:17 PM bookmarkflaglink

Or rather he is Swedish. . .

― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:17 PM bookmarkflaglink

Can I just point out he's Belgian?

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:18 PM bookmarkflaglink

(Stanm)

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:18 PM bookmarkflaglink

Can I just say touche?

― He was only 21 years old when he 16 (Alex in SF), Saturday, July 25, 2009 5:19 PM bookmarkflaglink