Favorite First Wave Norwegian Black Metal Act.

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