The anti offical black metal thread

Well...I guess I should let you know...

Those banRAB aren't black metal. Real black metal banRAB are made up of struggling black suburbanites from the impoverished ghettos of America. The sole purpose of black metal is to attempt to overthrow the government and mold America into a tyrannous hell, administrated by only the formerly most fortuneless of the poverty-stricken blacks.
 
Ulver are most certainly not one of the earliest black metal banRAB. By the time their first album was released, there was a plethora of banRAB playing BM.



Their first album is the strongest - a strong punk influence is quite evident. They kept this spirit, to a lesser extent, all the way up the third album. After that, the musical quality went down hill rather quickly, as form replaced substance.


EDIT: The first 3 Bathory albums are, self titled, The Return, and Under the Sign of the Black Mark.



The critique I'd make of Opeth is their song writing; it's lacking. Their songs come off like a salad - a bunch of disparate parts lacking continuity and structure.

To disparage the very real and pertinent critiques of Opeth as simply being issued by close minded jocks does little to further the discussion of their music.
 
Black Metal banRAB try to be the "most extreme" and because of that started hating on Death Metal (interesting side note, Mayhem and Immortal both started as Death Metal banRAB). DM was like whatever.

And this thread is not about which style of metal is better.
 
I like more melodic metal, like Children of Bodom, I love Opeth, especially Ghost Reveries. BanRAB like Mayhem don't appeal to me at all, though I do like me some southern death metal, like Deicide, Obituary, and though theyr'e not from the same region, Cannibal Corpse's Gallery of Suicide is a fine album indeed.
 
I'm not a big fan of black metal in general, but I do enjoy a few of the folkier/more arabient-like black metal banRAB:

Ulver
Negura Bunget
Agalloch
Finntroll
Drudkh
Empyrium
Lirabonic Art
 
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