Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Deathspell Omega supremacy tbh, another black metal band that prominently features a nazi, but yknow, actually good.



With you on that tho venin, filosofem is dogshit and Burzum is overrated as fuck fr fr

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

You all crazy, Filosofem is a masterpiece of the genre and Burzum has at least three outstanding records. It's not for everybody though, that's for sure.

Album Rating: 3.2

If you don't dig at least the first 4 Burzum albums then I gotta question whether or not you even like bm tbh. And this being #1 bm on RYM is laughable lmao.

never really understood categorizing this band as bm in the first place

I love a lot of bm acts and this guy's shrieks do absolutely nothing but irritate me. sounds like if a metalcore singer wanted to go bm or smth. that being said, the energy is there so I will try to give this a proper listen at some point

deathspell omega wails. have not listened to them in quite awhile

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Revelator is hair ball riser







sidenote: early Burzum and DsO rule

Album Rating: 4.0

LPWP #1 (excluding nsbm)

Album Rating: 4.5

"If you don't dig at least the first 4 Burzum albums then I gotta question whether or not you even like bm tbh. And this being #1 bm on RYM is laughable lmao."



Eh, I don't know! To be honest black metal is all over the place like other genres and it's a sign of the times. I respect Burzum and oldschool black metal to death but I can't necessarily say I love it like newer more "clean" bm bands. I'm not really into the extreme lo-fi sounds of the genre and I get their appeal but it's a struggle for me. That being said though, yeah this being 1 on bm is laughable at RYM but I also find a lot of their ratings/albums to be a joke anyway. That site is more just better at database and lists so I use it for that. Interaction wise and album reaction, I much prefer it here.

Album Rating: 4.5

That's not to say I don't like some lo-fi classic bm and such but everyone has their own taste as far as the genre goes. I just don't enjoy the purist takes anymore. Someone brought up Deathspell whom I love

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

FIND THEM,



BRING THEM,



CUT THEM DOWN!

Album Rating: 5.0

Album is exceptional.

Album Rating: 5.0

George has never sounded so good, love the vocal production

Album Rating: 3.0

“I do think i'd like this more if it weren't so compressed - total headache to get through due to the heavyhanded compression”



yeah, I just thought that’s what this band sounded like generally, but I can’t disagree with the general sentiment. Seems like a real lack of low-end too which I dislike, trebly af (probably why it all sounds so “epic”)



still, it’s not bad

Album Rating: 3.2

Fair enough Fear bro!

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

"If you don't dig at least the first 4 Burzum albums then I gotta question whether or not you even like bm tbh. And this being #1 bm on RYM is laughable lmao."

Counterpoint: letting a Nazi like Varg fade away into obscurity instead of promoting him would be the best course of action

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

Although..dumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdumdum

Album Rating: 3.0

Deathspell > Peste Noire > Burzum tho

Album Rating: 2.5

"i can't lie it is absurd, but for me it's like Filosofem should've never been the #1 anyway so i'm laughing at their expense"



tbf that's a completely reasonable sentiment ahahaha. filosofem is perhaps black metal's most overrated album - total snoozefest. hvis lyset tar oss is the only album from burzum i think is good but for obvious reasons i can't find myself enjoying it any more.



i get a lot of comparisons to burzum with my own music but they were never really a huge influence on how i crafted my songs - more like an 'influence by osmosis' because of how prominently other bands took notes. burzum's the epitome of a 'right place right time' band, dude struck just at the right time but compositionally his stuff doesn't doesn't stand up today at all where by comparison there's a bunch of albums from around the same time period i don't feel has aged quite so poorly.



i'm not mad about this taking the spot from filosofem by any means lol. but what i would say is that this album isn't a great representative of the genre due to black metal not being as strongly represented as screamo and hardcore in it. if this were someone's very first black metal record i highly doubt they'd come out of it knowing what black metal actually sounds like.



that's a me problem though lmao.

Album Rating: 4.0

I do think burzum is a little overrated in the grand scheme of things. He wasn't a great musician and most burzum stuff isn't something that's wows me... but he had a unique take on black metal that pretty much is the origin of atmo black

Album Rating: 4.0

where’s the daudi love?