Album Rating: 4.5

Lol that anyone is dumb enough to try to argue who is in the wrong over Euronymous’ murder. It’s like it isn’t clear to some of you that most of those guys were deeply fucked up and often awful people. It’s an interesting story but there’s no right and wrong to it, just a lot of wrong that resulted in an enduring, incredible, and mystifying music genre.



The movie was pretty fun to watch if you’re into black metal but it’s not a story meant for film. The people in it are too real and too fucked up to every be portrayed with any accuracy so they always come off as fiction or unbelievable.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, didn't like it at first either. But Cradle of course paved the way, and when I heard I Am The Black Wizards for the first time, I was hooked. Can't deny that catchy coldness, perfect perfect perfect riff, superb vocals and atmosphere... Man. Brings a tear to the eye, doesn't it.

Album Rating: 5.0

Cradle paved the way for me too but it was hard getting into the Norwegian stuff. Which is crazy to think about now because there’s so much stuff that’s way more under produced out there lol.

Album Rating: 4.5

I had a weird entry to black metal because it was technically through burzum when i read an interview around the time belus released and then listened to a song off it but then I tried some stuff from wolves in the throne room and some others that prepped me for the second wave stuff. Mayhem and darkthrone were very offputting to me at first.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yep agreed. Cradle, Dimmu and Borknagar were the 3 main bands that eased me into the genre.

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah hawks i was going to post, it was stormblast & for all tid that made bm click for me, in a, "holy shit this is the only music that makes sense to me" kind of way



those two dimmu albums are still like, sooo beautiful

Album Rating: 4.5

Oh yeah dimmu would definitely be the first band I listened to besides Cradle of Filth’s “Her Ghost in the Fog”, but it was just their in sorte diaboli (underrated album btw) period because Im a young fella. Those guys I just kinda wrote off at the time before starting to get interested some years later.

Album Rating: 5.0

and i guess the first time i heard transilvanian hunger was even more of that, like holy god damn, that is one special album. can't really do what that album does in any other genre

Album Rating: 3.5

Yeah, Dimmu for me too, but mine were Spiritual Black Dimensions and Puritanical/DCA.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yep Puritanical and DCA were seminal albums in my bm listening experience. Still some of my favs ever.

Album Rating: 5.0

yeah those heavy metal dimmu albums were big for me too, but the first two were like actual actual bm. i listened to the dreamside dominions track off SBD like a month ago for the first time since maybe 2005 and holy shit it was overwhelming

Album Rating: 5.0

SBD doesn’t get enough love.

Album Rating: 3.5

Haha, yeah.

The Insight And The Catharsis was my fave, Kings Of The Carnival Creation, Eradication Instincts Defined, Arcane Lifeforce Mysteria, Cataclysm Children, omg man, the memories...

Album Rating: 5.0

WHEN THE GHAASTLY MOURNEEEERS AWAAKEEEEN FROM THE SLEEEEEP

AND THE VOLATILE FUNERAAL CROWS ARE WATCHIIIING

Album Rating: 3.5

SBD doesn’t get enough love. [2]

This so hard, very magical atmosphere. Insight & The Catharsis is my fave Dimmu track still.

Album Rating: 3.5

Oooooh man, going to spin that haaard now!!! Hype!!!!

Album Rating: 5.0

I mean it’s like my 6th fav Dimmu but it’s still so damn good.

Album Rating: 3.5

Haha! They're quite neglected here overall, right? Not that many people into them or something. CoF and Dimmu used to be equally popular back in the day.

Album Rating: 5.0

is stormblast OG your 1st?

Album Rating: 3.5

Mine? No. SBD is, the older ones were never really my thing, a bit too bm-y for my young and innocent tastes, although I did enjoy them.