Black Metal

[Doogz]

I feel like this album already did everything Mgła is trying to do and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBnyyfvDwX8

THANK YOU!!! I've been trying to work out what it is about Mgla that doesn't quite add up... yup, Drudkh did it already. :-)

Don't get me wrong, it's very good stuff. Much like recent stuff out of Iceland, there's a lot of raving about Solstafir, Mispyrming et al, they all deserve the critical acclaim, it just doesn't hit the spot for me though. Just a matter of taste I guess.

I also never really "got" Mayhem, Immortal, Marduk, Watain and their ilk. I have a new appreciation of their music thanks to Dayal Pattersons recent series of Black Metal books, but they just don't grab me.

I guess I'm into the more progressive end of the black metal spectrum. Bands like Enslaved, Emperor, Blut Aus Nord, Code, Primordial, Negura Bunget, Fen, Drudkh, Agalloch (do they even count as black metal?)... more recently Akhlys, Batushku, Ninkharsag, and Zhrine stand out for me.