[Tom Yum Goong]

  a question for you all-
should i try and get into the first 4 burzum cds-are they essential like early darkthrone,immortal,satyricon etc

Nope.
 

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One of my favorite Black Metal tracks.
The lyrics are in German and so damn complicated that even I don't understand them. Absolutely crazy.

 

[Music Alchemist]

a question for you all- should i try and get into the first 4 burzum cds-are they essential like early darkthrone,immortal,satyricon etc

 
Yes, absolutely essential for that time period. Hvis lyset tar oss is my favorite.
 
Nokturnal Mortum's cover of "My Journey To The Stars" is excellent as well.

 

[wrathzombie]

   
Some excellent DM records released so far this year (besides Sulphur Aeon):
 
Chapel of Disease - The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art (https://fda-rekotz.bandcamp.com/album/the-mysterious-ways-of-repetitive-art)
Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers (https://willowtip.bandcamp.com/album/blessed-be-my-brothers)
Desolate Shrine - The Heart of the Netherworld https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-heart-of-the-netherworld
Abyss - Heretical Anatomy (http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/heretical-anatomy)
 
If experimental DM is your cup of tea, there's Pyrrhon - Growth Without End (https://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/growth-without-end), out next week.

Nice. Didn' know Pyrrhon was releasing an album 

 

[Redcarmoose]

Funny to see Dimmu's Stormblast and this Neglfar album on the same page here as those are both some favorites. I even have the Swarm of Plagues on 1st edition vinyl. A love all of Neglfar but the general consensus is their last album was not as good as the ones before it. I still like the album though. The band also has connections with the black-thrash band "Bewitched".

I don't know if they are even together anymore.

The interesting stuff about the original Stormblast is that the keyboardist copied an intro so that is why the redu of Stormblast with Hellhammer on drums does not have the same songs. In most black metal talks everyone complains about how bad the recording is of the original Stormblast. The music is epic but the recording is so-so. The new remake may have better sound, but has lost a little of the Magic the first one had. I only listen to the original. The CD can be hard to find due to the legal trouble they had from the copyright lawsuit.

 

[520RanchBro]

^ive the re recorded one aswell-its cool
a question for you all-
should i try and get into the first 4 burzum cds-are they essential like early darkthrone,immortal,satyricon etc

In my book, Filosofem is THE Burzum essential

 

[ferday]

My only naglfar album is pariah, and honestly I couldn't remember a track from it

Sounds like I need to brush up!

I do have the dimmu catalog, I actually prefer the post Enthrone Darkness era...I never thought dimmu did the raw stuff as well as the other big bands of the time but they are untouchable in the cheesy synth laden symphonic category. Death Cult in particular is a masterpiece of B-grade fun

In my book, Filosofem is THE Burzum essential

Agreed!

But....burzum is way more historically essential than musically IMO

 

[520RanchBro]

But....burzum is way more historically essential than musically IMO

 
Couldn't have said it better. Never gave any of his other albums a second listen really.

 

[Dobrescu George]

What about talking what metal bands have very good and clean recordings?
 
Like dimmu, it is extremely good recorded. 

 

[keepitsimple]

  Nope.
 

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One of my favorite Black Metal tracks.
The lyrics are in German and so damn complicated that even I don't understand them. Absolutely crazy.

sweet jesus that vid is amazing and the band is on my list-appreciated

 

[keepitsimple]

   
Yes, absolutely essential for that time period. Hvis lyset tar oss is my favorite.
 
Nokturnal Mortum's cover of "My Journey To The Stars" is excellent as well.

cheers-i  also have some n mortum-solid band

 

[keepitsimple]

this is good-band went weird later i think

 

[campj]

 

Some excellent DM records released so far this year (besides Sulphur Aeon):

Chapel of Disease - The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art (https://fda-rekotz.bandcamp.com/album/the-mysterious-ways-of-repetitive-art)
Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers (https://willowtip.bandcamp.com/album/blessed-be-my-brothers)
Desolate Shrine - The Heart of the Netherworld https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-heart-of-the-netherworld
Abyss - Heretical Anatomy (http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/heretical-anatomy)

If experimental DM is your cup of tea, there's Pyrrhon - Growth Without End (https://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/growth-without-end), out next week.

Nice. Didn' know Pyrrhon was releasing an album 

 

Some excellent DM records released so far this year (besides Sulphur Aeon):

Chapel of Disease - The Mysterious Ways of Repetitive Art (https://fda-rekotz.bandcamp.com/album/the-mysterious-ways-of-repetitive-art)
Sarpanitum - Blessed Be My Brothers (https://willowtip.bandcamp.com/album/blessed-be-my-brothers)
Desolate Shrine - The Heart of the Netherworld https://darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-heart-of-the-netherworld
Abyss - Heretical Anatomy (http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/heretical-anatomy)

If experimental DM is your cup of tea, there's Pyrrhon - Growth Without End (https://pyrrhonband.bandcamp.com/album/growth-without-end), out next week.

Nice. Didn' know Pyrrhon was releasing an album 

It's an ep, but I guess at worth looking forward to.

Thanks for the other recommendations Zyk. Forgot about some of those, didn't know about others. Will check them out.

Stupid phone

 

[Redcarmoose]

^ive the re recorded one aswell-its cool
a question for you all-
should i try and get into the first 4 burzum cds-are they essential like early darkthrone,immortal,satyricon etc

Burzum/Aske Normally put together to make one album. The Burzum album and Aske EP.
Det som engang var
Hvis lyset tar oss
Filosofem


The next ambient albums most don't even need to hear. Varg was in jail and could not get a guitar so he made synth records till they let him out.

The first records are historic but musically they are to black metal what early Sabbath records are to heavy metal. No one has ever explained to me Varg's musical influences and hearing the original music I can only conclude he came up with the style himself. I forced myself to listen to the early records and found them almost inaccessible compared to early Mayhem or Darkthrone.

The key is, one understand the pain in the vocals, learn the open guitar cords that are strummed and not played like death metal cords, and listen how Varg moves the songs forward with the bass and slight changes in guitar. There is nothing musically like them. Filosofem ends up being his masterpiece and again no music has ever been made like it.

The dreamy trance like quality is from another world, definitely not this one.

 

[keepitsimple]

^appreciated-i was reading a blog the other day and some guy was raving on about some Dungeon Synth in his works.
yes he is a harsh listen but there is something there certainly-ill put the first 4 in my system for sure

 

[Kirnupiima]

Summer always brings out the Meshuggah in me.