Black Metal
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Forostar
Ancient Mariner
I am really looking forward to Ancient's new album. In 2014 there was an interview with (imo very cool!) clips of new music and recording footage (with Nicholas Barker behind the drum kit). It was stated that the album would come out in the Spring of 2015. Still nothing....
I only liked a couple of tracks on first listen to Abbath, but it's proving to be a slow grower.
That's pretty cool. Lots of interesting twists and turns. Definitely bookmarking this.
Abbath's album has great catchy riffs but production doesn't do it any favors and it lacks Immortal's epicness. It's solid, but could've been better. Those rehearsal/live videos posted earlier have great production, dunno how he managed to have a better sound on those than on the actual album.
The production sounds great IMO. Especially for a black metal album. 
The only thing that throws me off are the clearly fake horn samples on Count the Dead, but I can get past the cheesiness there.
I agree about the epicness though. It has some epic moments but overall it's more catchy and straight forward. It almost reminds me of the more "fun" sort of Death n Roll style bands like later Entombed and Destroyer 666. But with more of a black metal influence obviously. But anyway I like that sound, there's plenty of more epic or atmospheric black metal out there, this works for what it is.
The only thing that throws me off are the clearly fake horn samples on Count the Dead, but I can get past the cheesiness there. I agree about the epicness though. It has some epic moments but overall it's more catchy and straight forward. It almost reminds me of the more "fun" sort of Death n Roll style bands like later Entombed and Destroyer 666. But with more of a black metal influence obviously. But anyway I like that sound, there's plenty of more epic or atmospheric black metal out there, this works for what it is.
SixesAlltheway
Ancient Mariner
It would be interesting to see similar discussion on less mainstream black metal bands 
Maybe a weekly or biweekly or monthly new black metal album?
Maybe a weekly or biweekly or monthly new black metal album?
New Rotting Christ album comes out in two weeks, we can talk about that one next.
Thought this was fairly catchy and accessible for black metal. Checked them out because I just read they got something called the Norwegian Grammy
Sth2112
Ancient Mariner
Is the Abbath album more like I than Immortal?
Somewhere in between. I is much better though.
Kampfar's latest album (Profan, 2015) is pretty solid. Kinda reminds me of Satyricon in parts, but it's a bit more melodic and less repetitive and has awesome clean chanted vocals. They are also pretty catchy and not overly chaotic or fast for black metal, which suits me perfectly.
Pretty epic & melodic black metal song:
