Black Metal

[kadaver]

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

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

Listened to this before, great sound! I've put off listening to this band before now, mainly because I'm a stubborn fuck, haha.

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.

Yeah, I suppose it's a matter of taste. To be fair, sometimes I dismiss albums and bands before I really give them a proper try. Then I come back and hit myself over the head for not recognizing their brilliance from the get-go. Seems to have happened with a lot of my favorites. I guess it also depends on my mood at the time. Although if I hear something unusual in their music I'll usually try to remember to 'save it for later'. I never really got into Mayhem, Marduk or Watain. Like you, I prefer the more experimental, progressive or avant-garde side of black metal. One of my first experiences with (enjoying) black metal was Diabolical Masquerade's "Nightwork". Have you tried A Forest of Stars? Think that would fit in that list of bands.