Black Metal!

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.

Crepusculo Negro presents
in alliance with Androgony Whore, Final Agony, Indifferent Nightmare:

Black Twilight Circle - Decade of Chaos

Honoring over a decade of occult chaos worship, the infamous bands of the black twilight circle produce countless records solidifying they're position at the top of the black metal scene. Self recording & releasing all they're own material while working with the top underground labels. Never stagnating BTC continue to revolutionize musically & thematically originating a sound all they're own. Imitated but never replicated BTC stand above cultivating a monument to chaos...

Ticket: $15 / All ages
Doors: 8:00PM
Dolorvotre: 8:30-9:00
Shataan: 9:15-9:45
BHL: 10:00-10:30
Kallathon: 10:45-11:15
Volahn: 11:30-12:00
Arizmenda: 12:15-12:45

The Teragram Ballroom
1234 W 7th St, Los Angeles, California 90017

Nice; I didn't know any of those bands ever played live.

I kind of assumed that whole label was just one crazed dude and a four track tbh

That Ahpdegma sounds great

Cool!

I think it's been discussed on the main metal thread but this Desert Dances and Serpent Sermons 4-way split on Ajna Offensive is fucking great. Four Black Twilight Circle bands playing black metal but I hear moments that remind of of the stereotypical Morricone Western soundtrack, Popol Vuh and weird European prog/psych. I think it's the best production any of those bands have had to date, too.

http://crepusculonegro.bandcamp.com/album/cn-30-desert-dances-and-serpent-sermons

digging that malokarpatan

New Arizmenda tape, Beneath This Reality of Flesh, highly recommended for fans of Les Legions Noires, Lust (Canada), orthodox black metal laced with weirdness and smashed onto a cheap old cassette.

xpost - Where did you find it? Only 50 made and it's not listed on Crepusculo Negro. Thanks.

Nécropole's first 2 demo tapes are now on cd via Northern Heritage. Essential!

xp I illegally downloaded it, actually (from M0rtuusInS0mn1s) - Arizmenda's Facebook had a link to the Bandcamp page but that appears to be gone and until I can pay for that or a physical copy... well, stealing it is.

Find it odd how deeply Mortiis into all the typical black metal fantasy and dungeon music but it seems unlikely he'd ever return to that. Of course lots of people change interests but it's just difficult for me to imagine how you'd leave in some cases.

I do enjoy both periods of his work, though I've never totally loved any of his 3 albums I got. Still amuses me how un-kvlt it is in "Parasite God" when he goes "hmmm-mmm-hmmm-mmm baby"

Wedard (German, depressive black metal, http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Wedard/41641 ) is doing the crowdfunding thing for his next album:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/new-wedard-album-autumn-night-sky-music#/

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

I'm currently obsessed with "Winter Howl" on the first Forest album. 20 minutes of meandering, clean guitars, sparse drums and distant, anguished vocals - not far off The Dead C's more plaintive moments. Can anyone identify other bands or songs that mine similar territory? Some of the weirder LLN stuff comes close, and maybe Circle of Ouroborus.

Urfaust?

Haha, yes Urfaust is on the nose.

Anyone else heard the new Darkthrone yet? Bit disappointed tbh. It sounds so 'clean', production wise. Made me put on Xasthur and Lurker of Chalice for ~trve black metal feels~

I love Darkthrone's "production" lately. I wouldn't call it clean or dirty, it's just an honest plug-in-and-play sound.

I love the new Darkthrone, reaches back to Panzerfaust which is just fine with me. Still sounds dank enough to my ears.

I'm currently obsessed with "Winter Howl" on the first Forest album. 20 minutes of meandering, clean guitars, sparse drums and distant, anguished vocals

I'll have to think about it, but just wanted to say how much I love this track - used to play this on my radio show next to Krautrock, NZ noise, whatever, it's like ur-music.

Ay you know who doesn't get enough props? Carpathian Forest.

"used to play this on my radio show next to Krautrock, NZ noise, whatever, it's like ur-music."

I would love to hear your show! Is it archived anywhere? I made a playlist and drew a bath, hit the bong and sunk in. Dead C's "Outside" segued perfectly into "Winter Howl." I almost drowned.

Sadly, no. Can't even find the playlists anymore. It's erased from history! But thanks!

I never got around to checking out anything in between Carpathian Forest's first and last releases, but I do love both Black Shining Leather and Fuck You All. They're the unhappiest black metal party band. I can never play "Every Day I Must Suffer" loudly enough -- that bluesy riff!

meant to stick a "xxpost" in there

I kinda wish they stayed "serious." Their first EP and about half the stuff on Black Shining Leather seemed to promise something a little more interesting than a jokey party band with leftover Celtic Frost riffs.

Nattefrost made a better black metal GG Allin than that attention whore from Shining, anyway

yeah, "The Swordsmen" and "The Northern Hemisphere" are pretty amazing. Never dipped into the Nattefrost drug soup though.

otoh, SHUT UP THERE'S NO EXCUSE TO LIIIIIIIIVE

Carptathian Forest's "Journey Through the Cold Moors of Svarttjern" definitely fits in the vein of blackened, shrieky post-rock. Sounds like Royal Trux, Pink Reason, Bardo Pond etc.

Has anyone here read WOLVES AMONG SHEEP: HISTORY AND IDEOLOGY OF NATIONAL SOCIALIST BLACK METAL?

Don't know why I have such a strong interest in NSBM. I certainly don't hold those views but I always love art from polarized stances.

I always love art from polarized stances.

Please offer some non-Nazi examples of "art from polarized stances" that you love.

Tragedy Khadafi, Paris, Public Enemy, X Clan, Dead Prez... are a few on the rap side.

I'm currently listening to Jihadi Nasheeds which are quite beautiful and, problematically, the soundtrack to many violent ISIS videos.

plus a bunch of noise/power electronics that celebrates sexual violence: Grunt, Whitehouse, Taint, Macronympha, Atrax Morgue.

Again, not an advocate in the least of these positions but I believe all is fair in art.

also Bratmobile, Bikini Kill, Fifth Column, Mecca Normal, Kleenex,G.L.O.S.S., Huggy Bear.

also Bratmobile, Bikini Kill, Fifth Column, Mecca Normal, Kleenex,G.L.O.S.S., Huggy Bear.

uh

i guess in particular what parallels do you draw between, for example, bikini kill and huggy bear and burzum?

Good question, and one that I feared I'd not answer well. Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear are overtly anti-patriarchy, pro-feminist (which I do support) while Burzum seemingly comes from a place of potent emotion that's hard to locate without knowledge of his views outside music. Bikini Kill's "Feels Blind" immediately states it's intent. Huggy Bear's "Dissthenic Penetration" is more oblique but equally direct, and any Burzum song about Nordic blood seeping into the forest floor is obviously more inscrutable. Still, I love them all.

So...do you listen to music exclusively for philosophical reasons? Or do you ever just listen to music as sound that's been organized into patterns you find aesthetically pleasing?

I suppose the latter though I can't help but follow or read lyrics if they're in English.

"potent emotion"

that's what they call it now?