How do you listen to it, I found it so depressing that I had only one time when I listened and felt it all, other times when I listen to it I just hear it, if ykwim
>>127256404 (OP) i think its great but im kinda chronically depressed did you listen to the big albums like totalselfhatred self titled and gris il etait une foret? i recommend exiled from light, there is no beauty left here great vocals and riffs
>>127260741 From what you said I've listened only to there's no beauty left here, great album. Also I really liked fadheit but maybe it's because I understood polish, text is cool, but never felt like screaming with them later
>>127261266 There's no such thing as a first wave much less a second one, the so called first wavers were not doing black metal and the fact they inspired the birth of genre doesn't include them in there, black metal is Immortal, Darkthrone, Dimmu Borgir etc. First wavers were either nwobhm or extreme metal. I'm not hating but it's important to catalog everything accurately so the information doesn't end up misinterpreted or misunderstood.
>>127262288 They certainly called themselves black metal in magazines and posters.
But more broadly I agree with you. In the early 80s, it was all just โextremeโ metal.
Magazines called it everything. They called Bathory death metal, they called thrash bands like Metallica power metal, they called Slayer (and any band that sounded remotely like Venom) black metal, and they lumped anything satanic under the umbrella term โevil metalโ