Metal Reviews

I chose At the Heart of Winter. Though I'd normally go for Pure Holocaust, the former album set them apart from the rest of BM.

By the way, it's Winter Metal.

Yeah, I guess that's the best definition.

I guess that is just an excuse to invent a new genre. It's norsecore to the bone...

"Norsecore" doesn't exist.

Norsecore - A bastardized variation of the Black Metal ideology, exceedingly obsessed with the "Hollywood" form of Satan and Evil (reactionary Satanism). This abortion follows a similar lyrical outlook, but like Extreme Goth, strives on hype and over-the-top, almost circus-like exaggerations and imagery. Black Metal was never about being one-dimensionally fast, and this is exactly what Norsecore is, blastbeat and scowling galore. Hardly even fitting the structure of traditional metal (extreme or otherwise), Norsecore frequently falls into a trap of trebly noise. A lot of these bands, again, may have played Black Metal in the past and all generic Norsecore isn't bad, but I'd keep to the same point I mentioned in my dissection of Extreme Goth. Popular Norsecore bands would include Dark Funeral, later Marduk, Limbonic Art, Gorgoroth, Dawn, Setherial etc.

source : http://hypnos-reviews.tripod.com/hypnos ... id276.html

Whatever. Limbonic Art and Immortal were always good. Setherial, Naglfar and Dark Funeral I could see classified as bastardizations of black metal and generic crap.

Yes Immortal has always been excellent, though their albums weren't really black metal.

I've only got Sons Of Northern Darkness and Damned In Black, so I'll go with the former.

SOND every time, though Battles In The North comes a close second. I haven't heard anything off Blizzard Beasts(most unintentionally homoerotic cover ever IMO) or DFM