Black Metal

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Really looking forward to all the arguments about what is tr00 black metal! Or not. Seriously though, probably every thread related to black metal in internet's history has at one point regressed into an idiotic quarrel, but let's make this one an exception! After all, black metal is one of the most intriguing forms of music, in good and bad. It has this aura around it, which is rarely found in other genres. In some way, I can agree with the sentiment that black metal isn't merely music. I think you really have to have true passion, an inner flame in order to create such music.


With that said, music! 2015 was a great year for black metal, as for example Mgla (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BqGgqyfLCs), Akhlys (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY3_rkfZXC0) and Regarde Les Hommes Tomber (though a bit on the post-metal/sludge side, still in my mind black enough for sure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EJQDCBEOM0) pulled out awesome albums. I actually consider Mgla's "Exercises in Futility" a modern classic, clearly one of the best, if not the best album of 2010s. I guess only time will tell. I usually find Finnish black metal to be kind of basic and boring, with a few exceptions like Ride for Revenge and Rahu, but even that scene caught me by surprise last year with Hämys' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aj72RsK0dpQ) and Kyy's (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlI901N2OJo) new releases.

Don't know if anyone's actually interested, but here's some other black metal acts I've been enjoying lately : )


Negative Plane: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOx2MxbyRB4
Veiled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mPpN7NH6Qk
Akitsa: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cjE59DzWF4
Ash Pool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s6YitUwnjo