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Rhys · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 1:52 pm Post subject: Finnish Black Metal

Is this the most underrated scene in the world?

Cosmic Church, Horna, Circle of Ouroborus, Raate, Blood Red Fog, Foudre Noire, Saturnian Mist, Satanic Warmaster, Sargeist, Funerary Bell, Verge, Beherit, rarely hear anyone talk of any of these bands, while going bananas for everything that comes out of France and the Ukraine.

tl;dr - discuss Finnish bm.

Karmakosmonaut · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:10 pm Post subject:

Sorry for the additional namedrop, but ...and Oceans is one of my favourite bands of all time. Moonsorrow is a different flavour, but could be counted among the great Finnish bm bands as well.

traptunderice · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:15 pm Post subject:

ImpNaz is the only one I really care about and not really super into them.
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Define Infinity · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:33 pm Post subject:

Apart from some bands in the Finnish scene, I found most of the other stuff a derivative of say bands like Darkthrone and Immortal. The former goes for Horna and the latter for Azaghal. One only has to listen to the last two Azaghal albums to realize what a rip off they are from Immortal. Or the same goes for Horna, very reminiscent of Darkthrone. Although there are some bands that are trying to make original music and I appreciate that. The fact of the matter is, it is sometimes very hard to make traditional BM and not sound like the bands that originated them in the first place; nonetheless, one finds European bands creating very original music that goes to a very sophisticated route of their former influences.

traptunderice · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 5:36 pm Post subject:

Kathaarian · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 6:40 pm Post subject:

When Horna, Sargeist, Wyrd, Behexen, Baptism and Satanic Warmarster were at the top of their game, about 6-7 years ago, Finnish bm was arguably the best one at the time. In time they fell under the radar. The releases got worse too. The French kept releasing quality stuff since then and are obviously the best right now.

North From Here · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:00 pm Post subject:

Kathaarian · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 7:25 pm Post subject:

Define Infinity · Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 8:57 pm Post subject:

huskerc7 · Einherjar Joined: 25 Aug 2009 Posts: 2014

Sargeist is great. Horna is great to. Sargeist really outdid themselves with Let The Devil In.

North From Here · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2011 12:19 am Post subject:

Rhys · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 11:20 am Post subject:

Heh, the finnish scene maybe somewhat derivative, but they do it well, really fucking well. And some of the newer bands have their own kind of sound imo, wouldn't describe Funerary Bell, Raate, Blood Red Fog or Saturnian Mist as darkthrone clones.

Anyway, the French scene is starting to disappear inside it's own dissonance. DsO are still ok, and Aosoth are good but derivative, but the DsO sound is getting copied way too much at imo.

crast · Metal King Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 1501

Rhys · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2011 3:47 pm Post subject:

Skartasis · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 5:11 pm Post subject:

Well I'll be damned. Been away from this site a long time and most people's taste in BM still sucks.

traptunderice · Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2012 6:24 pm Post subject:

Define Infinity · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:49 am Post subject:

Pillars of Geph · Banned Mallcore Kiddie Joined: 13 Dec 2011 Posts: 671

Nu-Deathspell Omega is not black metal, its avantgarde tech death at best and red hot nails being shoved down your ear canals at worst.

Define Infinity · Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:06 pm Post subject:

Pushing boundaries and breaking the commonalities has nothing to do with being true or not. It certainly does not take away anything from the "traditionalists and the conservatives" of BM.

Skiggath · Metal Lord Joined: 21 Jan 2008 Posts: 478

Definitely an underrated scene. Some great bands out there. I'd say there are much better national scenes out there, but Finland deserves credit.