Album Rating: 3.0

o kev..

Album Rating: 5.0

black metal is inherently corny and that's why it's cool

Album Rating: 4.7

Exactly!! I remember I ripped all the pics out of the album booklets for The Principle of Evil Made Flesh, Pure Holocaust and The Somberlain and hung them all over my room when I was like 14 or 15 lmao. So cheesy but thats why I love it.

Album Rating: 5.0

100% man, feel the exact same. that's why i love immortal. no pretension, just dudes larping in the forest making evil jams about wizards and shit. that's why varg didn't fuck with them.

Album Rating: 5.0

I think it’s so funny when people try to take metal seriously. We’re just a bunch of nerds screaming about shit over sick riffs. Yes it’s art but nobody should be taking themselves that seriously.



Except tool that’s high art obv

Album Rating: 4.5

Completely unrelated but kinda related, Futures you heard Cân Bardd? They embrace the forest cheese and it is so mossy

Album Rating: 4.7

In terms of overall consistency/impact on my bm journey Immortal is probably top 3 for me. When I first started it was all about Cradle, Dimmu, Immortal, Mayhem Borknagar, Ulver, Satyricon, Darkthrone, Burzum, Enslaved, Windir, Rotting Christ, Leviathan, and Dissection. Those were the core bands that got me into bm.

Album Rating: 5.0

never heard of em nash, i'll have to check it! been on a pure bm binge for weeks now lol.



yeah hawks you got into the good stuff immediately haha

Album Rating: 3.0

speak for yourselves poseurs i sacrifice goats daily to satan

Album Rating: 4.7

It took me a while though. The first time I heard Nattens I thought it was god awful lmao. But once I was into it fully I just took off lol.

Album Rating: 4.5

can baard [2]

Album Rating: 4.5

Black metal has shitloads of faces



There's the self aware cheesy stuff Immortal



The unself aware cheesy stuff like early Mayhem



There's the more legitimately fucked up and occult stuff like Akhlys and DSO



Nature / pagan stuff like early Ulver



Post metal / nature focused stuff like Agalloch



Classical / Neofolk tinged stuff like Aquilus



Blackgaze stuff like Deafheaven



Blackened doom like Ruins of Beverast



I can't think of many other umbrella genres where two releases can be so aesthetically and even musically different from each other



That's why it's probably my fav genre overall

Album Rating: 5.0

Which is the consensus on the remix/remaster for this?

Album Rating: 2.0 | Sound Off

it's tinnier and more compressed but they mixed the bass a bit better



pros and cons ig

Album Rating: 4.0

Dream House is somehow even better live.

Album Rating: 4.5

dream house is a perfect song

Album Rating: 5.0

still remember hearing it for the first time and being absolutely floored. the buzz it had was incredible, everyone was talking about it and you just had to check it out. i was just getting into black metal and about to graduate high school. time flies man.

Album Rating: 4.7

Bump for greatness. Album still rules so insanely hard.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

My favorite album. God I love it so much it hurts

Album Rating: 4.7

Good choice.