...i'll back you on this one Carl...i still have my "To Hell With the Devil" 7" 45..too bad i don't have my "Yellow and Black Attack" shirt I had in 1988...

if scott won't let me count carcass, i'll change to nile.



no carl...do not "love off"...i dig stryper and i'm not lying...

Nile is a respectable choice.

honorable mentions:
Hate Eternal... the new album rages. pure and simple.
Behemoth... one of the best live bands ever
Insect Warfare... part grind. part death metal. all awesome.
Anaal Nathrak... are they death metal? black metal? who cares.. they are intense.

..that is sounded like shite. At least panzerfaust had a bit more depth to it, and that was done on a 4 track!

Deathspell Omega and Vlad Tepes I think deserve honorable mentions too. oh, and VON.

Lets not forget Sodom either!

I think you mean that it sounded "necro" which is a very "kvlt" thing to do

Behemoth rocks!

ah yes, 'kvlt' with a V, can't get much more grim than that.

I always figured that the majority of the BM bands just played that off as deliberate, moreso than the fact they could'nt afford proper recordings.

Whats your take on Emperor's 'Nightside' album? I thought they peaked on that, as the stuff afterward sucked.

C'mon, Mayhem's Deathcrush should get an honorable mention just for batshit insane satanic band member murdering church burning nuttyness. Wouldn't call it DM myself (I'd really call it a pile of dung), but the band members (remaining ones) refer to it as DM.

I'm not a big fan of the more symphonic stuff. that is definitely the last decent Emperor record though

and Mayhem is definitely black metal, not death metal

more spaz/grindcore but happy today with the as yet unreleased
BEAK - "Mucus Infect" EP & again not really deathmetal but
anything by the defunct Japanese band NECROPHILE,
NAPLAM DEATH, SOB or BATHTUBSHITTER usually
melts my earwax just the same.

Nunslaughter

one video to rule them all...!!!

The Amenta "Erebus"

Excellent video, excellent track - Hypocrisy - 'Left to Rot'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Ehs0_QRN0

Mayhem may be black metal..but they have the best bootlegg cover ever that puts all death metal bands to shame.
WARNING BRUTAL IMAGE BELOW

thats real!

no brutal image showed up

but I can only assume it is of original singer Dead post suicide

I don't see it?

You mean the Dawn of the Black Hearts bootleg with the picture of Dead?

yes the one with dead when he's dead..shows up on my screen hmm?

jebus!
are those his brains pooled next to his face?

looks like baked beans!

Yesm. It was a photo taken by Euronymous, who obviously 'posed' the body somewhat too. Dead slashed his wrists before shooting himself, yet the knife is lying on top of the gun....

he was actually a scientific anomaly - the man with baked beans for brains

it was in Ripley's

i heard they all kept pieces of his skull.

well, Euronymous did

I actually really hate how all this hoopla around these few bands/events years ago is all that anyone still really knows or talks about when it comes to black metal

it has come a long, awesome way since then and there are so many great bands but any time black metal is in the media it's like "these crazy fuckers kill each other and burn churches!"

I do that every weekend and no one gives a fuck

The OT media hype surrounding the events of 93 didn't help though, and secured the legacy of black metal with those events. I still have the copy of Kkerrang! that has the burning church on the cover and the sensationalist articles about Norwegian BM and the supposed 'inner circle', and its absolutely ridiculous. The book 'Lords of Chaos' really didn't help either, although it is an interesting read. That aspect will never go away, unfortunately, but yes, there are plenty of very very good bands that have come from the BM scene that are a million miles away from all that hype. I am glad that the USBM scene has produced some quality acts too.