I’m goin w Grand Belial’s Key
― Bstep, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
Hmmm. I'm partial to the Cascadian scene, so I'm going to say Wolves in the Throne Room. For now.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
do the two cancel each other out politically
― adam, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
Sure.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 20:25 (four years ago) link
Xasthur is the first I'm thinking of. He's done recording a new album and in the producing/"trying to bring it down to 79 minutes" stage, according to his fb.
Leviathan/Lurker of Chalice is way up my street too, it's a shame Wrest is an asshole.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:01 (four years ago) link
All time or right now? All time it’s Absu, easily. Right now, probably Obsequiae or Mare Cognitum.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:10 (four years ago) link
Mare Cognitum will be releasing a collaborative album with Spectral Lore in a couple of weeks. Sweet.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:17 (four years ago) link
I’m now going through the RYM chart to see if I’ve missed something but it’s slim pickings.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:36 (four years ago) link
This question gets more interesting if we disbar solo artists and consider which USBM band combines to greatest effect
Then less interesting when I consider how many USBM bands I've seen live (0)
― imago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:45 (four years ago) link
Oh wait actually that isn't true haha
― imago, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:48 (four years ago) link
Liturgy by default then :D
Although it did prompt me to put on Dead As Dreams again and I’d almost forgotten how good that is.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 09:52 (four years ago) link
I thought of keeping the solo artists from actual bands, and in that case it actually is Liturgy!
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 10:14 (four years ago) link
xp I really like that weakling record! Did any of them ever go on to other projects?
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 10:20 (four years ago) link
According to RYM, John Gossard and Sarah Weiner went on to form The Gault, a doom/gothic band that put out an album in 2005. I haven't heard it, but it looks intriguing.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 10:23 (four years ago) link
Wolves in the Throne Room are great fun live. Lots of candles and smoke, as you'd imagine. And scythes, natch.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
False is better than LiturgyMinneapolis rules black metal
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 12:43 (four years ago) link
I like the Bindrune stuff a lot (Panopticon, Falls o Rauros and co.)
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:02 (four years ago) link
Not gonna touch their politics but Grand Belial’s Key is the obvious answer for me. They’re on the early side of USBM and notable for breaking with the Nordic sound. Gelal remains one of the most influential guitarists in black and death metal.
Cases could be made, too, for Demoncy, Inquisition, Krallice or Negative Plane. I’m not counting the one-man-bands in my assessment.
And yes, John Gossard of Weakling now fronts the Oakland band Dispirit.
― Yelploaf, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:15 (four years ago) link
Grand Belial’s Key are cancelled too? Or because of their antichristian views?
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
<googles> Ah it’s more than just antichristian stuff, yeah.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
Their anti-Jesus stance is framed more through a virulent anti-semitism.
― Yelploaf, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
As far as scenes go, The various bands of the Black Twilight Circle are the most unique US manifestation yet.
― Yelploaf, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
+1 on Krallice
― Skrot Montague, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:23 (four years ago) link
AevangelistNightbringer/Akhlys/Bestia Arcana, that dude
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:40 (four years ago) link
Good shout on Panopticon. Kentucky (for all its idiosyncrasies) might be my single favourite USBM release.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:41 (four years ago) link
John Gossard and Sarah Weiner went on to form The Gault, a doom/gothic band that put out an album in 2005. I haven't heard it, but it looks intriguing.
listening to it on youtube now, whoa this is really good!
thanks for the great reccs guys. this should be a fun day of depressive black metal lol
― Bstep, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
I have the gault album on vinyl and a few Dispirit tapes but Weakling is the correct answer for this thread
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:39 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I'd probably vote Weakling narrowly over WITTR with Nightbringer a close third.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:04 (four years ago) link
Krallice were good early on but have done the same thing for too many albums in a row (I know, lol black metal).
Tombs were good live about a decade ago (saw them open for Marduk) but I don't know if they're "black" enough to count in this thread - their songs are actually heavy.
The Black Twilight Circle groups have some interesting ideas but the ratio of good to bad isn't super favorable and I feel like their moment has kind of passed.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:05 (four years ago) link
krallice are barely even a black metal band anymore, this post is nonsensical
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:07 (four years ago) link
yeah Krallice are probably the best band mentioned itt but I don't associate them with BM. (nor Liturgy for that matter)
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:09 (four years ago) link
Skaphe, but good look on Aevangelist as well
― hooper (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
I don't know a whole lot about USBM, I know some of the sort of post-BM bands mentioned like Liturgy or WITTR, but 2 USBM bands I've liked are Black Witchery and Bone Awl, and I had thought that USBM wasn't as tainted with nazis but I just googled and apparently both those bands have far right links. great
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
Revisited Judas Iscariot Thy Dying Light today as well and that still holds up, although it’s of course derivative as hell.
Also, the old Profanatica/Havohej albums are great & bring back good memories, although I have zero interest in what he’s done post-90s, it’s really something that had a time & place.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 23:25 (four years ago) link
WITTR for me
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 23:29 (four years ago) link
xxp bone awl far-right links are like what? darkthrone-level? some stupid ass cover decades ago? i sure hope so
― gaudio, Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:38 (four years ago) link
i don't listen to much bm, but i would say that in recent years panopticon are the most acomplished usbm. very low on that nihilism continuum, while very much engaged with the connection between nature and bm
― gaudio, Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:55 (four years ago) link
*meant to say environment and bm
― gaudio, Thursday, 27 February 2020 00:56 (four years ago) link
Botanist are pretty damn good too
― Oor Neechy, Thursday, 27 February 2020 01:02 (four years ago) link
bone awl has never issued any weird statements & is mainly guilt by assoc. afaik - they've done splits with bands who put the totenkopf on their records, they've done splits with bands who are questionable e.g. Horna who I think turned out to be actual bad news? which sucks, they're actually good, but whatever
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 27 February 2020 02:18 (four years ago) link
yeah i'm aware of a certain split and that's it. they were great, imo
― gaudio, Thursday, 27 February 2020 02:24 (four years ago) link
averse sefira was pretty good
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 27 February 2020 02:59 (four years ago) link
Y’all I’m not a metalhead but it seems so easy to me to simply not collaborate (lol) with Nazis, if you really want to avoid any appearance being associated with Nazism, that’s kind of a circumstance where it’s okay to judge people by who their friends are, just my imo
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Thursday, 27 February 2020 03:02 (four years ago) link