There's BM beyond the popular stuff on Sputnk, y'know.

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm well aware of that, yes. Deathspell and BAN were the only black metal I listened to back in the day. This year has been my dive into the genre, really.

i think atmospheric stuff generally gets decent reception on sputnik. the ones that arent popular on sputnik tend to be the lo-fi stuff (eg LLN, BBH)

there are like a million bm bands, only about 10 are popular on sputnik.

Album Rating: 3.0

I'm in the same boat as salesman, really digging cascadian bm right now. i'm gonna have this record in a couple weeks, love when it drops to just the drums in the second track.

i mean they're no deafheaven but the atmospheric stuff gets decent amount of ratings too around 50~100 looking at BAN coldworld walknut

...and then you look at a band like branikald...

I wouldn't say that, I actually think the lo-fi stuff has gotten more popular on here. With the people REALLY into BM anyway, so especially among people like Wylie, Vesper, Angel, even Hawks ect. I believe also some of the thrashers are into that stuff, sure - maybe not the traditional stuff like LLN or the Norwegian stuff like Zyklon-B and similar but stuff like Bone Awl, Arizmenda and Paysage D'hiver.

i suppose - i guess i should've said 'traditional' instead.

though i really do wonder with bands like paysage and bone awl whether people actually do listen to it from start to finish and give it a 4 because they really do enjoy it, or because they want to establish some sort of self-satisfying cred

I don't know but I'd reckon both varying with the people. I don't think anyone that isn't really into BM would go there, but they mostly stay with stuff like this anyway. I'm personally not the biggest fan of this "lo-fi revival ("cult")" thing going on. I mean some of the stuff is nice but I'd rather stay with the "traditional" stuff or things like Darkspace, old Nocte Obducta or certain Lunar Aurora albums.

Album Rating: 4.7

Speaking of Lunar Aurora, their split with Paysage d'Hiver is amazing.

Album Rating: 4.7

Yeah agreed.

"Yeah a lotta people don't know this bit I agree Lunar aurora has some really good older stuff"
You should check out their new album, it's actually quite similar to the older stuff like Elixir of Sorrow/Ars Moriendi. But I also enjoyed the latest album before they initially split up tbh.

Album Rating: 4.5

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Affirmed.





I like this a lot because of a combination of the vocals and instrumentation; the vox seem, to me, uncommonly wailing and grim, and the overall riffs and production give a really rushed, brutal, cutting feeling. If there's anything similar to this that's non-Cascadian-y, recs would be appreciated.

Album Rating: 3.5

so after listening a couple more times, this is growing on me. i'll edit my rating appropriately when i'm home [:

about fucking time

I like this a lot because of a combination of the vocals and instrumentation; the vox seem, to me, uncommonly wailing and grim, and the overall riffs and production give a really rushed, brutal, cutting feeling. If there's anything similar to this that's non-Cascadian-y, recs would be appreciated.

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Y U NO GIVE CONSTRUCTIVE ADVICE. Grrrrrrrrrrr. New album gonna pone.

Album Rating: 3.5

settling on a 3

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