Black Metal!

ahhh, Absu. The best death metal band in Denton is actually from Dallas. My friend played keys with them for a few months.

a.) Scotch, Irish, or Germanic descent to bloodline

Holy shit. Kind of always thought Protractor was a smarter guy than that.

That is pretty bizarre

Prolapser

delightful Morbsian krieg

Yeah, well I went around scouring other interviews for like confirmation. Any other racial shit. "Was he just being sarcastic or something?" Couldn't find anything else in that vein. But it had tainted the band for me.

The Obsequiae album may be my favourite metal record of the year right now. They've got a wonderful ear for melody and I love the clarity of the mix and the guitar tones. The harp passages are beautiful too. I didn't think I was in a mood for black metal, but there's something about how this comes together that I really like.

What Summoning to get after Old Mornings Dawn?

all of them, but particularly let mortal heroes sing your fame and the ep nightshade forests

Oh I definitely wanted all of them.

Yeah all of them except the first. Oath Bound is probably the best overall, and it has Land of the Dead.

Thanks guys.

Can anyone recommend some recent bm in the vein of early LLN, Dead Reptile Shrine, Urfaust? I'm talking blurry riffs, flat, paper cup drums, shrieky shallow grave vocals. I'm up on new notable bm like Myrkur, Mastery, Mgla, Misþyrming etc. and it's good but not what I'm looking for. Kuunpalvelus and Ancient Records bands are great but not there either. Thanks!

You might have to go back to the 90s for the early LLN sound, I don't know if you can get recordings that technically "bad" these days.

What do you think of this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3lovxk5_ZQ

Yes! Warloghe I know and love. Is anyone doing this now? Finland always kills. True Werwolf, Ride for Revenge, Cosmic Church, Keres. Thanks for the response. I'll keep digging and post any new discoveries here.

It's been a good year for Finnish black metal:

Sacrificium Carmen

Sielunvihollinen <-- kills, esp if you were dissatisfied with the new Horna

Ruho

Aegrus

None of this has anything to do with the LLN sound but I felt like linkbombing anyway.

Is anyone doing this now?

Man, I don't know, but I hope so. I have to admit the only black metal I've heard lately all seems to be, uh, maturing into an epic, cosmic thing with "proper" production. Which is fine but I do miss that feral chaotic vibe and Tascam 4-track sound.

Hey 'loaf have you heard Veles from Poland? Bad politics alert (and Rob Darken keyboard alert) but they definitely have a chaotic maniac vibe on "Black Hateful Metal." It's super jarring when one of the keyboard intros ends and suddenly this poorly recorded basement metal screams in.

Veles hits the spot. So good! Thanks again. I love Graveland but haven't checked in with Darken since. No problem with the heinous politics either. I'm certainly not the sort of dude these knuckleheads would want as a fan. Fuck em. Their shitty, sniveling hate makes for great music.
Sweet links above to the Finnish jams. Ruho I know but the others are new to me. I get a Negative Approach feel from Sielunvihollinen hahaha. All great. Keep it coming. I'm off to listen to Moonblood.

try these

Slægt

Prurient's Dominick Fernow's bm project Ash Pool

Bone Awl

Polish dudes more than a bit inspired by old Graveland, Veles and Infernum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrrujoT8Rg

Dude from Horna playing it hateful, slow and evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_elflBQmDdw

I think The Black Twilight Circle might be what you're looking for, that group of bands have very raw production values but not quite as blown-out and impenatrable as LLN.

This is like their 'starter pack'
http://crepusculonegro.bandcamp.com/album/cn-02-worship-black-twilight-v-a

Cultes des Ghoules (yet more BM from Poland) released an EP this year with a great 15-min track (they excel at this), and have some of that LLN veiled-evil (along with lots of old Darkthrone too).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fIgRyIynf4

Appreciate all the suggestions. I don't imagine there are many contemporary bands mining the old LLN territory but there's plenty of disgusting, raw bm in the air. Some recent favorites are:

Bekëth Nexëhmü (Sweden)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3IX-uOgJUs

Kêres (Finland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13VOgh6E-T4

Asymmetry (USA/Finland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4sPeknafAk

Teitanblood (Spain)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDmUagGCZX4

Rhinocervs (USA)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_5MWLekZDs

Necrostrigis (Poland)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgEZwMavMyU

Akitsa (Canada)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A0NELOWY1Q

Branikald (Russia) [older but essential]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7PrRJTUWOw

https://malokarpatan.bandcamp.com/releases

Well this is pretty amazing. Sounds like Mutiilation playing extended Venom songs. Necro Wave of British Heavy Metal? Might apply to yelp's call for LLN type stuff (except they're from Slovakia).

Wow, great find. I'm just hearing it now but Malokarpatan rips. I can see the through LLN through-line; Mutiilation vocals and Vlad Tepes riffs. Plus all the eastern bloc pagan folk elements. And going back to Veles upthread, they are incredible! I bought the cd off the youtube but the album is much more than I'd hoped for. I thought, based on their skin heads and jack boots, that they'd be more Polski meatheads a la Honor but no, the album is all Germs riffs, Xasthur vocals and Group Inerane drums. Hahaha, I'm sure I'm way off on that last bit. They're certainly in no way influenced by Tuareg desert rock from Niger but I like to hear it that way. It's all so fey and not tough at all. I love that kind of cognitive dissonance in black metal.

have we talked about babymetal yet?

I think there's a thread devoted to them but I cant find it in search function.

Another one I've just stumbled upon and feel positively toward but am not sure I'll be listening to years from now so I'll post it here in the niche thread rather than the more general metal one:

Havukruunu
http://naturmachtproductions.bandcamp.com/album/havulinnaan-np061

Finnish but very Bathory inspired, much like Moonsorrow. Some cool heavy metalish riffs turn up every once in a while to take the burden off the pagan/folky jig stuff.

Malokarpatan is so fucking good

Forgot about this thread. Stumbled upon some weirdness yesterday: chipper, celebratory, punky bedroom black metal that I've seen described as "music for the last day of school" and the image is perfect.

Glass Shrine:
https://youtu.be/KZ8DwbqhhFM

Apparently the guy is a fan of Lykathea Aflame, hence the major key approach.

(found on the NWN! forum, where there's a dedicated thread)

While I'm here, and speaking of NWN!, man I'd never heard of this Gnome thing. One man deal from Japan, totes kvlt, like Burzum or Xasthur but flips all the antisocial hostility for something enchanting and convivial. I mean yeah there's still the banshee wails coming from the treetops but the listening experience doesn't become a test of endurance. Almost sounds like a black metal version of oldest Katatonia sometimes. That one song, "The Forest," is something I'd take over many bands' whole discographies. Fucking out of this world.

https://psychedeliclotusorder.bandcamp.com/album/silent-scream

And that's the closest I've come to buying a turntable since actually owning one in the 80s-90s. I hope this thing makes it to CD.

hey devilock, gnome is indeed amazing and on cd! check discogs.

Huh, yeah, look at that. Looks like I'll be snagging one of those.

Also, Malokarpatan posted some art for upcoming tshirts.
http://i.imgur.com/mh38JYt.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/KeBG8aw.jpg

I recommend just reading the thread at NWN. One of the band members has been posting regularly.

Never checked out that NWN forum before, but thanks to link found out about Archgoat show in March, just got tix \m/

Man this Ahpdegma album

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

It's so fucking strange, it takes me back to the golden age of weird, cheap-sounding, poorly-recorded genius. I've seen people refer to it as symphonic but the keys are all so fucked and kind of drunken sounding, like something out of a bizarre prog album that leaned more towards, I don't know, rock in opposition or something.

:D

Demented outsider black metal is the best kind

Seriously. It's so common to hear it well-produced and epic in presentation now I forget about the eccentric genius and a four track era.

how does this compare to the black cilice record from last year

More weird keyboards, more complex but somehow less coherent riffing, vocals don't sound like an angry fog bank

that aphdegma isn't a parody?

haha

I hate u guys

The exclamation mark in this thread title makes me sing the Venom chorus every time I see it.

Whoooooooooaaaarghhh this thread!

continuous revolving thanks to devilock for the hearing of things i would never otherwise be*. gnome & malorkapatan are both incredible.

* hearing of

While you may want to avoid any conversation that doesn't strictly involve music, the NWN! forum is where I go to learn about all the weird black and death metal that otherwise would slip through the cracks.

I'm listening to an album by Manierisme right now 'cos they're related to the above Japanese weirdness, some of it sounds like lofi blackened JRPG themes (I mean that in a good way).

Oh and on a 'still weird but less questionable' tip I finally got round to hearing the massive Black Twilight Circle comp Tliltic Tlapoyauak which is two hours of brilliance

I slept on that Black Twilight stuff for a long time but have recently gotten into Volahn and Arizmenda, both kind of amazing.