What Are You Listening To?

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Black Winged Goat Messiah - Satanic Morbid Lust, Cuba 2022

 

Barbaric Horde - Barbaric Hammer Fist, Portugal 2022

 

Bestial Raids - Master Satan's Witchery, Poland 2016

 

[Yannis]

Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider

Eternal Champion - The Armor Of Ire

 

[Arioch]

Cavalera Conspiracy - Schizophrenia (2024)

 

[AlSymerz]

 Devin Townsend Project - Ocean Machine Live

[RelentlessOblivion]

Hexocaust - s/t (2024) [Beleruse]

I think this might just be the first band I’ve ever heard from Beleruse

[Yannis]

Vektor - Black Future

Bruce Dickingson - Accident Of Birth

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

35 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Hexocaust - S/T (2024) [Belarus]

I think this might just be the first band I’ve ever heard from Belarus.

There are more. Not a lot more, but there are a few good ones I've found. Which is strange because right next door in Ukraine and Poland they seem to have a lot of high profile black metal bands. Maybe dudes from Minsk head to Poland or Ukraine to form and join bands because they have bigger scenes there? I knew a dude from Minsk once. Most people just assumed he was Russian because he spoke Russian and worked in a Russian restaurant, but he was a Belarussian from Minsk.

Check some of these guys out Blivvie, I think you're gonna want all or most of these albums:

Khragkh - Ersatz, Belarus 2016

 

Ciemra - The Tread of Darkness, Belarus 2023

 

Pa Vesh En - Pyrefication, Belarus 2019, these guys have several good albums if you're into their murky cavernous style.

 

And who could forget these guys...

Cryptospital - Scythe of the Black Death, Belarus 2021, an atmospheric black metal masterpiece

 

[Yannis]

Gehenna - First Spell

Anathema - All Faith Is Lost

 

[Nasty_Cabbage]

NP: Avatar - Emperors of the Night

▶︎ Emperors of the Night | Avatar | Babylon Doom Cult Records (bandcamp.com)

Pretty decent. I was expecting a bit more of a hybrid between black and death. This is pretty much completely grown from the black metal vine. The production, while suitably loud, is probably a learning project from somebody (either in the band or not) who hasn't quite mastered the use of his recording tools. It's not terrible by any means, but the keyboards do jut from the body of thing a little too noticeably, and the vocals feel kind of isolated. Probably a learning project from somebody younger. The music is a little rough when taking each element individually, but works well enough as a whole package.

[AlSymerz]

Armoros - Pieces

[Nasty_Cabbage]

NP: Sinistrum - Infernal Dawn

▶︎ Infernal Dawn | Sinistrum (bandcamp.com)

This is more what I was in the mood for today. The straightforward nature of this kind of thing sans all the bells and whistles works well enough. I did notice a few moments, primarily when the go in dual harmonized trills and little accents on the guitar work, where they tend to more easily fit into the mold of ATG's Slaughter of the Soul type things. Thankfully a lack of breakdowns and a healthy dose of stomping older school death metal saves these from invoking American metalcore circa 2005 through 2015, that most of us have had enough of. Using shorter leads on top of the mix makes for some transitions that feel almost too smooth at times, as the most intriguing parts for me are when they juxtapose their less immediately digestible riffs against some of the harmonic stuff. Still worth a listen in my book though.

[Yannis]

Sadness - I Want To Be There

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

Anakreb - Fuir des Hommes (2024) [France]

yeah, this is pretty solid, then again I shouldn’t be surprised. French black metal seldom disappoints.

 

Berstup - Shadows Over Uncharted Paths EP (2024) [Poland]

initial impressions were that this is some promising black metal, think I need more time with it though

 

Devouring Void - Across the Endless Nothingness (2024) [Canada]

another one I need a bit more time with, feel like they sit on some of the riffs too long but otherwise decent

[markm]

Sinking my teeth into my Ulcerate/Cutting the Throat of God disc. Post punk, gothy riffs with their aggro dissonance. High on the atmosphere. I'm getting a yin/yang, masculine/feminine vibe....like a hulking front man, Henry Rollins in his prime or maybe the frontdude for the Cro-Mags screaming into the void while a beautiful ballerina dances blithely around like Tinkerbelle. Look, I like this, but it's basically a disso-death post metal album. Nothing wrong with that in my book. I'm an atmo guy. give me the dynamics, hit me with heavy musicality, hit me with a variety of influences which is my one beef with that Coffins albums y'all are in love with.. repetitive. Give me something to sink my teeth into. This works for me. 

[AlSymerz]

Death Decline - Pattern Of An Imminent Collapse

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

Braandholt - Einder (2024) [The Netherlands]

another pretty decent black metal discovery, damn the Netherlands really does have everything legalised weed, nice cities, and black metal…

 

Brüka - Death’s Promise (2024) [USA]
Liking this one quite a bit, more on the menacing side of black metal

 

Marrow of Man - Ancient Hymns of Apocalypse (2024) [The Netherlands]

supposedly this is Black/Thrash, sounds pretty pure black metal to me done pretty well though all things considered

[Thatguy]

2 hours ago, markm said:

This works for me. 

AOTY for me, so far.

[GoatmasterGeneral]

Terrestrial Hospice - Rübezahl, Poland

 

Skuld - Skogen, Norway

 

Faustbruhiel - Клёкатам Крумкача над Ланцугом Магіл, Belarus

 

[AlSymerz]

Demise - Through The Eternal Gate

[Yannis]

Oz - Fire In The Brain 

Stormwitch - Walpurgis Night

 

[Arioch]

Crown of Thorns - The Burning (1995)

Today, I only listen to albums from 1995.

 

[GoatmasterGeneral]

12 hours ago, Nasty_Cabbage said:

NP: Avatar - Emperors of the Night

Pretty decent. I was expecting a bit more of a hybrid between black and death. This is pretty much completely grown from the black metal vine. The production, while suitably loud, is probably a learning project from somebody (either in the band or not) who hasn't quite mastered the use of his recording tools. It's not terrible by any means, but the keyboards do jut from the body of thing a little too noticeably, and the vocals feel kind of isolated. Probably a learning project from somebody younger. The music is a little rough when taking each element individually, but works well enough as a whole package.

That's the 30 year anniversary re-release of their 1994 demo tape with updated full color artwork. And yes they are indeed a symphonic black metal band, no death metal in sight. Their first actual full length release two years later in 1996 sounds quite a bit more professional, although obviously symphonic anything is not my bag so I'm gonna have to turn this off once I grab the URL.

Avatar - ...Memoriam Draconis, Belgium 1996

 

Now if you want some good shit from 1994...

Graveland - The Celtic Winter, Poland 1994

 

Mütiilation - Hail Satanas We Are the Black Legions, France 1994

 

[Yannis]

13 Winters - Dark Palace Of Waterfalls

This band reminded me of Opera IX as well as the vocals sounded very similar to their singer. Overall some really neat symphonic black metal goodness 😁

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

Moon Reaper - Black Sun Sorcery (2024) [UK]
I came across this earlier in the year and it didn’t really click with me at the time, revisiting a few months later it’s growing on me. I don’t exactly know what to call it this elements of black metal, doom, and hard-core that all come through and various points.

[Yannis]

13 minutes ago, RelentlessOblivion said:

Moon Reaper - Black Sun Sorcery (2024) [UK]
I came across this earlier in the year and it didn’t really click with me at the time, revisiting a few months later it’s growing on me. I don’t exactly know what to call it this elements of black metal, doom, and hard-core that all come through and various points.

Blackened Doom Metal? This seems like my cup of tea 🤩