Black Metal Bandcamp 2016 edition
Bandcamp's pretty much the first place to go if you want to see what's popular in the black metal sphere. So, given that the year's over halfway done, I thought I'd compile a list of bm on Bandcamp from this year that's caught my eye so far. Maybe not strictly because I like it, but because I know others do, or hope they might. |
1 |  | Old Graves Long Shadows
Atmospheric bm junk.
http://naturmachtproductions.bandcamp.com/album/long-shadows |
2 |  | Harakiri for the Sky III: Trauma
blackgaze shoegaze w/e. Apparently this is top BM for the moment on Bandcamp.
http://artofpropaganda.bandcamp.com/album/iii-trauma |
3 |  | Numenorean Home
Blackgaze with a slight depressive bm lean to it a la Ghost Bath, but improved in pretty much every way. Definitely check it if you like blackgaze.
http://numenorean.bandcamp.com/album/home |
4 |  | Thrawsunblat Metachthonia
Folk/bm. I remember liking this album much more than their previous.
http://thrawsunblat.bandcamp.com/album/metachthonia |
5 |  | Zhrine Unortheta
Ugly black metal/death metal. This has quite a few votes already but no reviews and I expect Sput to love it once it gets more exposure.
http://zhrine.bandcamp.com/album/unortheta |
6 |  | A Diadem of Dead Stars Kingdoms Bathed In Golden Light
Atmospheric bm a la WitTR. They used to just rip off WitTR, but they're starting to find their own voice now. And they write 20-minute songs woohoo.
http://adiademofdeadstars.bandcamp.com/album/kingdoms-bathed-in-golden-light |
7 |  | Wode Wode
Rifftastic bm. Dynamic and crushing. Strictly bm, but with lots of little influences woven inside. And that Zdzislaw Beksinski art is killer.
https://wode.bandcamp.com/album/wode |
8 |  | Void Omnia Dying Light
Atmospheric riffs of riffing.
http://voidomnia.bandcamp.com/album/dying-light |
9 |  | Skuggsja Skuggsja: A Piece for Mind & Mirror
Folk and black metal from that one dude from Enslaved and that other dude from Wardruna.
http://skuggsja.bandcamp.com/album/a-piece-for-mind-mirror |
10 |  | Jute Gyte Perdurance
Microtonal polyrhythmic bullcrap that sounds like a guitar being untuned as it trems, with a drum machine crashing randomly in the background. I hate it, but apparently other people like it so give it a try for science or w/e.
http://jutegyte.bandcamp.com/album/perdurance |
11 |  | Sun Worship Pale Dawn
Riffing dirty bm with a tiny hint of crust (I think?). Not as good as their debut, but still OK and stuff so check it ya?
http://sunworship.bandcamp.com/album/pale-dawn |
12 |  | Sojourner Empires of Ash
Pseudo-epic bm. Not like Agalloch at all, but if you pretend hard enough it can probably fill that aching void you've been trying earnestly to not fall into these last few weeks.
http://sojournermetal.bandcamp.com/album/empires-of-ash |
13 |  | Ashbringer Yūgen
Post-bm or w/e.
https://ashbringermusic.bandcamp.com/ |
14 |  | Altar of Plagues Live at Club Colectiv, Bucharest
Altar of Plagues Are Dead
http://altarofplagues.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-club-colectiv-bucharest |
15 |  | Schammasch Triangle
Triple album of Behemothy-bm, DSO-y bm, and ambient-y non-bm.
http://schammasch.bandcamp.com/album/triangle |
16 |  | Sivyj Yar The Unmourned Past
atmos bm
http://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-unmourned-past |
17 |  | Nadra Allir vegir til glötunar
Cold Icelandic bm.
http://nadra.bandcamp.com/album/allir-vegir-til-gl-tunar-3 |
18 |  | Wildernessking Mystical Future
Black metal that's kinda like WitTR-lite, without all the ambience. Dynamic, and not at all blast-oriented.
http://wildernessking.bandcamp.com/album/mystical-future |
19 |  | Oranssi Pazuzu Värähtelijä
Psychedelic bm, emphasis on the psychedelic this time around.
http://listen.20buckspin.com/album/v-r-htelij |
20 |  | Panopticon Revisions of the Past
Post-black/blackgaze. Austin thought Social Disservices and On the Subject of Mortality had awful sound quality, so he had them remastered. They sound better now.
https://nordvis.bandcamp.com/album/revisions-of-the-past |
21 |  | Fyrnask Fórn
Weird bendy atmospheric bm. Recommend!
http://fyrnask.bandcamp.com/album/f-rn |
22 |  | Entropia (PL) Ufonaut
Sludgy post-whatever bm-ish.
https://entropia.bandcamp.com/album/ufonaut |
23 |  | Woman Is The Earth Torch of Our Final Night
Atmos bm.
https://womanistheearth.bandcamp.com/album/torch-of-our-final-night |
24 |  | A Pregnant Light Rocky
Riffy black metal. 20 minutes of lo-fi bm split into 7 movements that flow as one piece. It's as consistent as the guy from Colloquial Sound Recordings has ever been.
http://colloquialsoundrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/rocky |
25 |  | The Great Cold The Great Cold
It's basically all sorts of post-metal with occasional bouts of Woods of Desolation-y blasting bm. Riffs, trems, post-rocks, grooves, sludgedgedges, it got all dat stuff. Recommend.
https://thegreatcold.bandcamp.com/album/the-great-cold |
26 |  | Book Of Sand Occult Anarchist Propaganda
Lo-fi black metal. If you dig Arizmenda, this project rips them off pretty well.
https://mouthbreatherrecords.bandcamp.com/album/occult-anarchist-propaganda |
27 |  | Cairiss Fall
Female-fronted blackgaze. A really hyped debut EP that took for-ev-er to actually be released, but the hype seemed to have been worth it for many people.
http://cairiss.bandcamp.com/ |
28 |  | Vukari Divination
Black metal!
https://vukari.bandcamp.com/ |
29 |  | With the End in Mind Unraveling; Arising
Black metal!
https://withtheendinmind.bandcamp.com/ |
30 |  | Dzo-nga Five Treasures of Snow
Sputnik black metal. It's like a more melodic Darkspace if their drum machine was sucked into a black hole and they just had to release the album without one at all.
https://dzo-nga.bandcamp.com/album/five-treasures-of-snow |
31 |  | Ustalost The Spoor Of Vipers
Melodic lo-fi bm. Lotsa keyboards and bass.
https://ustalost.bandcamp.com/ |
32 |  | Hyperion (SWE) Seraphical Euphony
Melodic death/black metal. Lotta people on Sput dig this one.
https://hyperionsweden.bandcamp.com/album/seraphical-euphony |
33 |  | Lvthn Eradication of Nescience
Rawer-ish black metal. Dat treble.
https://lvthn.bandcamp.com |
34 |  | Skaphe Skáphe²
"This is weird" atmospheric black metal.
https://skaphe.bandcamp.com/album/sk-phe |
35 |  | Show Me A Dinosaur Show Me A Dinosaur
Screamo-esque-y blackgaze.
https://showmeadinosaur.bandcamp.com/album/show-me-a-dinosaur |
36 |  | Venereal Baptism Progenitor of all Abberations
Angry Black/death metal. Attitude.
https://venerealbaptism.bandcamp.com/releases |
37 |  | Draugnim Vulturine
Atmospheric/melodic bm in the "epic" vein. Seems like they want to create epic melodic junk in the name of Bathory, so I suppose it warrants some attention just because of that, heh.
https://dmp666.bandcamp.com/album/vulturine |
38 |  | Unru Als Tier ist der Mensch Nichts
Fairly dirty slightly atmospheric black metal. Their one song on their split with Paramnesia was fantastic, but this isn't *as* good. Still good dirty cacophonous black metal to get lost in, though.
https://unru.bandcamp.com/album/als-tier-ist-der-mensch-nichts |
39 |  | Anicon Exegeses
Melodic black metal that's on Gilead Media, so that alone probably makes it worth mentioning.
http://gileadmedia.bandcamp.com/album/exegeses |
40 |  | Sielunvihollinen Tuhontuoja
Rawerish Finnish black metal with a slight punky edge.
https://sielunvihollinen.bandcamp.com/album/tuhontuoja |
41 |  | Latitudes Old Sunlight
Post-metal with some [sometimes-Krallice-y] black metal, and sometimes clean vocals.
https://dmp666.bandcamp.com/album/old-sunlight |
42 |  | Veldes Ember Breather
Melodic black metal with some acoustics.
http://veldes.bandcamp.com/album/ember-breather |
43 |  | El-Ahrairah El-Ahrairah
Rawer-ish black metal that basically takes one idea and does it for four minutes and calls it a song, for nine songs. Idk go ask TheSpirit.
https://el-ahrairah.bandcamp.com/album/el-ahrairah-2 |
44 |  | Barshasketh Ophidian Henosis
Kind of a classic bm feel, but with also with alot of modern atmos-bm to it. Lots of melodic tremololos.
http://barshasketh.bandcamp.com/album/ophidian-henosis |
45 |  | Nullingroots Take Care
Post-bm that's pretty OK?
http://nullingroots.bandcamp.com/album/take-care-2 |
46 |  | Oathbreaker Rheia
This comes out Sept 30 but it's gonna rule so it's going on the list early. Ripping bm/punk/whatever that sounds excellent. Hype.
http://oathbreakerband.bandcamp.com/album/rheia |
47 |  | Alder Sun Worshipper
Post-rock/black metal. Production kinda stinks but the writing is OK.
http://alder-can.bandcamp.com/album/sun-worshipper |
48 |  | Hirsi Hirsi
Black metal.
http://hirsi.bandcamp.com/releases |
49 |  | Marsh Dweller The Weight of Sunlight
Black metal with melodic death metal influence. Think In Flames with growly vox a la Saor--but black metal. OK, think *Panopticon*, but with even more melodeath influence. It's quite good.
https://marshdweller.bandcamp.com/album/the-weight-of-sunlight |
50 |  | White Shore City Vibes
Black metal shoegaze from Ukraine. It's fairly amateurish but in a way that kind of makes it charming. Happy up-beat music with raspy croaking vocals.
http://whiteshore1.bandcamp.com/album/city-vibes |
51 |  | Black Hate Through The Darkness
Black/death metal that, according to PortalofPerfection, will "tear your face directly the **** off." Sounds like a pretty decent recommendation.
http://dusktone.bandcamp.com/album/black-hate-through-the-darkness-dusk035cd |
52 |  | Imperium Dekadenz Dis Manibvs
Black metal with some shoegaze or something? Super krieg just lookit that cover.
http://imperiumdekadenz.bandcamp.com/album/dis-manibvs |
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