Album Rating: 4.5

u lack variety in drumming

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

😥

Album Rating: 2.0

I do not get it. This does super little for me as far as atmosphere goes. There’s some good riffage, and I honestly don’t mind any of the “repetitiveness”, but by golly I just think it is bad. The vocals genuinely sound like a meme of bad black metal vocals to me. Like, those videos where a guy goes up to people in the line for metal shows and asks for people to do their best scream. And it definitely doesn’t get the “so raw it adds to the atmosphere” with respect to production. It just sounds not good. I compare them to a contemporary, Emperor (who I’m not really “into”, but I definitely get it more), who I think actually can actually capture the raw, cold, and evil vibe of BM. Someone make me understand this record (or the two other big Darkthrone records surrounding it).



Also - never ever forgiving the Deafheaven hate after listening more deeply to the black metal OGs.

Album Rating: 4.0

get filtered

Album Rating: 4.5

Have you heard A Blaze In The Northern Sky? If you're trying to get into early Darkthrone, I think that one's the best venture point, at least it worked that way for me.

album rules great vox

Album Rating: 5.0

Great everything 💖

Album Rating: 4.5

Pitchfork: Blaze might be worth a shot even if you didn't dig this one. You probably won't end up digging it either honestly though. If you like dm Soulside is well worth a jam though and also my favorite album from them. If you don't enjoy the earlier stuff though you might get something out of their more recent releases. Definitely a ton of quality riffs on their most recent stuff.

I've yet to hear Deafheaven but am curious about just from the sheer amount of insane love and hate I see them get.

Album Rating: 2.0

Thanks for the recs, combustion. I’ll try and jam more and see if I can get into any of it. If you’re going to listen to Deafheaven and you’re a Bm guy, I would recommend “Luna”. First half is classic riffage / shred, shows a bit of the atmospheric side with the guitar leads, second half is the post-rock-tinged stuff - to me, that stuff has the epicness of the classic bm, but it’s much more melodically-major and triumphant. Let me know what you think



I just can’t get over the production and vocals on this, though. BM is definitely not my “thing” but I can get down with plenty of it. This just ain’t it for me. Even compared to some of the other mid-90s artists and records (I like Emperor a lot more, Burzum a bit more, and Mayhem a little more (despite also pretty unacceptable vocals for me))

Album Rating: 4.0

his vox aren't the best on this one but cheq Blaze and the echoes on the vox are nuts.

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

I like the vox here. They could maybe use a little more reverb

Album Rating: 4.5

hey ppls check the abyssic hate EP eternal damnation

Album Rating: 5.0

Is it good???



Good band name, like a really REALLY angry fish.



😡🐟

Album Rating: 4.5

yap its good and it sounds like it clearly took some heavy notes from this

Album Rating: 4.5

are you hungry

Album Rating: 4.5

a l w a y s

Album Rating: 4.0

lotsa bands rip this off and arent nazis tho hmmm

Album Rating: 4.0

"Flittermice" is good for the soul

Album Rating: 5.0

Oh yeah it is. One of my faves here.

Album Rating: 4.5

Def check Blaze Pitch.

Unnacceptal vox eheh

Deafheaven is okay, yet there s better blackgaze/postblack whatever, out there.