TheSpirit
10.30.19 | pls & ty |
Relinquished
10.30.19 | the trems are hard to deny |
butt.
10.30.19 | I always love the album art and the "idea" of black metal, but I'll be honest at least half the albums I listen to disappoint me. Usually it's because of being too lo-fi (think Burzum), but sometimes it works out perfectly (think Dissection) and my expectations are met |
AsleepInTheBack
10.30.19 | Agreed with butt. tbh. I also find them the opposite of versatile generally, and therefore usually prefer it when mixed with dm or thrash |
Trifolium
10.30.19 | If it's cold, rough, sharp as a knife, and gritty I'm happy. |
JohnnyoftheWell
10.30.19 | I like it when there's atmosphere and tremolos and reverb and it's like everything is going really slowly although they're playing fast notes and there are lots of strings my favourite black-metal albums are Hymn to the Immortal Wind and Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven |
JohnnyoftheWell
10.30.19 | (but when I actually jam bm, all about the riffs, coldness and breakneck speeds; I like how the melody is often based in traditional diatonic stuff you'd hear in folk but played in a totally unhinged style, think Night's Blood by Dissection is one of my top metal tracks in general for those reasons) |
garas
10.30.19 | All of these! I think black metal is one of the most creative genres - doesn't matter (that much) how is the production: if it's good, then it's good, and black metal is a great match and ingredient, because it's compatible with ambient, electronic, drone, jazz, punk and other metal genres. The best riffs, vocals and the most adventorous and magical atmospheres can be found in black metal (+ in its little subgenre, my beloved dungeon synth). And for me the aesthetics matter A LOT - black metal doesn't care about looking nice, the genre is just purely cool as it is. |
SitarHero
10.30.19 | Cos it makes other types of metal sound good in comparison. |
Pikazilla
10.30.19 | Black metal hybridizes well with other subgenres - blackgaze, blackened death, blackened thrash, etc. Also despite being the least varied subgenre, it somehow manages to simultaneously stay the most varied, which is crazy - compare old-school bm with cascadian stuff, for instance. Some of the most image-evoking music out there for sure. |
butt.
10.30.19 | @sitar lmaooooo nice |
Pikazilla
10.30.19 | But from what you're asking, it's got to be the atmosphere and versatility. The aesthetic is extremely questionable in a lot of cases.
And production is a weird one, because lo-fi stuff ironically tends to be the best - with a very few exceptions. |
wwf
10.30.19 | i absolutely fucking do not and also how dare you |
TheSpirit
10.30.19 | the answers don't necessarily have to respond in any way to what i posted on the list, those were just general examples. |
garas
10.30.19 | Oh I forgot one thing:
Because Fenriz. |
foxblood
10.30.19 | blasts and tremolo, long songs, lots of tasty searing treble, brutality combined w/ grace, more authentic and genuine sounding than typically overproduced genres like metalcore, aesthetics, versatility, cool themes & concepts. I usually like pretty much any black metal tbh, but I'm the type that loves early demos and tapes from bands so I can dig the lo-fi. I'm more into raw atmospheric stuff lately. something like Sortsind - More Days is an absolute assault on the senses, once you stop recoiling in disgust and get into the sound it's some of the best bm I've ever heard my god the atmosphere is just palpable. I recommend it spirit, Sår is good too it's the same album and songs essentially. Sår has a 4.4 avg rn |
StarlessCore
10.30.19 | Cause it goes in the whip |
WatchItExplode
10.30.19 | I like things that appear unapproachable until you put in effort to understand them, much like myself. |
budgie
10.30.19 | there's some unexplainable spiritual and cultural signature in the genre which i identify with strongly |
NOTINTHEFACE
10.30.19 | idk, for me it's a nearly perfect combination of some of my favorite musical elements. I grew up loving atmospheric keyboards, huge soundscapes, dense walls of sound, and long compositions. BM tends to embrace all of that as components of the genre, to an extent that even other metal genres don't. I also appreciate how most of the time individual instrumentation is de-emphasized in favor of a cohesive sound. |
DungeonBoy
10.30.19 | what's not to love? |
TheSpirit
10.30.19 | good question |
BigHans
10.30.19 | I like Alcest, Agalloch, and thats about it. I also know they aren't BM |
Egarran
10.30.19 | Mostly the occult megalomania. |
DopeFiend
10.30.19 | I like to feel kvlt while I walk around in khakis and sketchers |
alamo
10.30.19 | i don't |
Pikazilla
10.30.19 | once you go black, you can't go back |
TheClansman95
10.30.19 | the atmosphere, the aesthetic and the ideals |
CaliggyJack
10.30.19 | The intensity above all else. I love the aspect of screaming with heavy guitar riffing and I also love the "meshed" quality of the songs themselves. I don't give a flying fuck about the ideals cause I love Christian Black Metal and that genre is far from the "ideals" of BM. |
elliootsmeuth
10.31.19 | I don't listen to a ton, but I would say that when I am drawn in, what really gets me is the atmosphere in the diversity within the albums. |
Ocean of Noise
10.31.19 | Definitely atmosphere for me as well as artwork sometimes |
madrigal30
10.31.19 | i'm just here to figure out who murdered who in Norway in the early '90s to the sound of some sick screaming |
TheMightyScoop
10.31.19 | I hated being made to go to church every sunday when I was a kid so I felt right at home when I first heard bathory |
8genre
10.31.19 | The atmosphere, especially when you live in a a icey hellscape like I do. The frozen riffs are something that can be appreciated by those that put in the effort, but can never be truly understood until you winter this far north |
swallowtales
10.31.19 | Definitely atmosphere, and aesthetic out of what you have listed. Black metal is one of the genres I enjoy the most, but it's also pretty unique in that I have to have the time to dedicate to the soundscapes and atmospheres when I listen I feel like. |
ScuroFantasma
10.31.19 | The answer is yes |
Morningrise767
10.31.19 | Coz it makes me feel so kvlt and grim!
Haha but honestly I'd say the aesthetics and atmosphere. |
TheClansman95
10.31.19 | ScuroFantasma got it right. What's not to love?? |
VisionsFromTheDarkSide
11.01.19 | for the MASSIVE WALLS OF SOUND |
Slex
11.01.19 | Definitely all about the atmosphere for me |
Keyblade
11.01.19 | atmosphere [123] |
Dedes
11.03.19 | The nature of black metal can be kinda corny and way more serious than it oft should be but regardless I'm a fucking sucker for stuff about drinking goblets of goat blood so I'm all in for kvlt metulz |
Pikazilla
05.20.21 | I hate black metal |
Meridiu5
05.20.21 | the hatred and the intensity |
someone
05.20.21 | "versatility"
muahahaha |
Let
05.20.21 | ^ iunno, it's rife with experiementation, moreso than other subgenres even though I still love me death and doom |
Egarran
05.21.21 | We must conclude someone is not a Mayhem fan |
JeremiahBullfrog
05.21.21 | Vocals and lyrics, they are beautiful and hypnotising in the most evil way, also the riffs and bass almost always slap |