The albums that got me into the BM were... At the Heart of Winter - Immortal Filosofem - Burzum De Mysteries Dom Satanas - Mayhem The Mantle - Agalloch The Return... - Bathorhy In The Nightside Eclipse - Emperor A Blaze in the Northern Sky - Darkthrone I know they're the most famous and popular albums in the genre but if it wasn't for them then I wouldn't be listening to BM at all.
The albums that got me into black metal proper were: Lawless Darkness by Watain Storm of the Light's Bane by Dissection Sanctus Diavolus by Rotting Christ In the Nightside Eclipse by Emperor A Blaze in the Northern Sky by Darkthrone In the Heart of Winter by Immortal Before that I was casually into Behemoth, Mayhem, Cradle of Filth, Bathory and Tom G. Warrior's bands: Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and Triptykon
the album that got me into black metal was The Satanist,I know it's blackened death but it got my interest to search for more and I eventually got into the old ones like Burzum,Satyricon and etc
Nice video! I really agree with the Emperor album you picked and the Dimmu Borgir. For me, Sons of Northern Darkness was the Immortal I got into first and it was early in my black metal listening. Other things that come to mind would be Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage or Primordial Arcana, Agalloch - anything from The Mantle and forward, newer Enslaved stuff, some Drudkh, Behemoth - The Satanist, Satyricon black n' roll albums are quite listenable.
@@MetalTrenches Hell yes! I love Hordanes Land, Frost, Eld, Mardraum, Monumension, Isa, Ruun, Vertebrae, Axioma.., Riitiir, In Times, E, and Utgard. Never heard Below the Lights, kind of been saving that one for a rainy day for whatever reason, haha. Ruun was the first one I ever heard I think. For rookies I would recommend anything from Isa or Ruun and forward. I find Yggdrasill, Vikingligr Veldi, and Blodhemn to be pretty good. Favorite is In Times.
Black Metal went from something I just didn't understand to probably my favourite subgenre throughout these last years. Back then, kinda got more into contemporary stuff before the "unsocial" classics. Still, totaly recommend somebody to start with these early highlights of mine: 1. (1999) "Stronghold" by Summoning. 2. (2016) "Rituals" by Rotting Christ. 3. (2007) "To The Nameless Dead" by Primordial. 4. (2016) "III: Trauma" by Harakiri For The Sky. 5. (2016) "The Whole Of Law" by Anaal Nathrakh (I have no clue how I got into this record right when beginning to get into BM. Extremely Heavy and relenteless.)
Just from your channel, by music taste has gone from Metalcore and butt rock to Melodeath and death metal. I gave In the nightside eclipse a try today and I loved it. Cant wait to hear more of these albums :)
I transitioned from finally getting death metal to finally getting black metal. Started with Necrophobic Mark of the Necrogram, Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness, to melodic black metal like Vinterland, Dawn, etc. Now I enjoy a wider variety of the Blackmetal subgenres
I’d recommend The Mantle by Agalloch. It got me interested in black metal. Absolute masterpiece. Filosofem is what made me realize I loved black metal, oddly enough. The level of distortion and fuzz it has kind of has a reverse effect where it sounds more accessible to me than bands like Darkthrone or Mayhem. It’s also just a beautiful album.
imo if i wanted to introduce someone to black metal i would first show them speed/thrash bands like bewitched, hellripper, midnight and even venom then more modern black metal like abbath's band, watain, Alcest, diabolical masquerade (great symphonic black metal band from sweden) and evnetually stuff like bathory's blood fire death (the album that instantly clicked for me) , dissection storm of the light's bane, immortal at the heart of winter and for the more mom's basement production stuff : burzum filosofem, darkthrone transilvanian hunger and emperor's first 2 albums
Cradle Of Filth "Cruelty And The Beast", Moonspell "Wolfheart" and Emperor "Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk" were some of my first favorites and still love them to this day.
What got me into Black Metal was Cradle of Filth. Hey you gotta start somewhere. What im most into these days, is stuff like Revenge, Watain, Behexen, Archgoat and the like of. I still like Cradle tho. Cant deny them, gatekeepers. Without emperor, cradle wouldnt be around.
Hell yeah! How about some Blasphemy, Beherit, Profanatica, and Black Witchery? I've never heard Behexen, need to check them out. I forgot to mention Cradle in my list I just posted, I got into symphonic of all black first with older Cradle, Dimmu, and Emperor, listening to those bands around 2000 and one Immortal Album, Sons of Northern Darkness, those things alone were the only "black metal" I heard for years. Behemoth too but they were pretty much going heavy on the death metal.
I like black metal, but i can only listen to a few songz before i get sick of it. Ive listened to only 3 black metal albums Filosofem (obviously),loved it and the atmosphere it built, listen to it pretty routinely. Blaze in the Northern Sky, i enjoyed this too and was so surprised by how "rock n roll"it sounded with the riffs, less atmospheric. Havent really listenned to it again since. Then the last one is The Ten Sublevels of Suicide by Leviathan. It is super fucking heavy and atmospheric and all by one guy? Totally insane,have only listened to it a couple times though cus its so long and its very intense. Ive always been put off by Dimmu Borgir because if the whole like theatrical sound they have,sounds way to cheesy and like over the top to me or something. Ill check our some Gorgoroth though,always have heard they're (he?) meant to be classic. Pretty recent subscriber, great video as always, keep it up ;)
@@MetalTrenches Well, yours are good enough - probably he won't be eager to check my recommendations cause he won't be happy with my initial response to his comment...
Count Deangeli How’s he supposed to learn if no one is willing to teach 🤔 Gotta stay constructive. I honestly missed out on great bands for years because fans were shitty to me
In may 2008 I’ve heard heavy metal for the first time in my life and started listening to it. In autumn 2008 I just downloaded Burzum albums and I liked it (and strongly disliked Varg’s personality) I’m not a huge fan of black metal and never was but I don’t understand why get into it is so difficult for many people. But I think Emperor “In the nightside of Eclipse” is a great choice for first black metal album. It’s much more understandable than Burzum. Maybe I just liked “Hvis lyset tar oss” from the first time so much because I was very angry and had depression at that time 😹
My first contact with Black Metal was at high school, I just saw a post of a girl I liked, and she posted a Gorgoroth song, I actually loved it at first sight, but since I am Christian (and as a teenager I didn't understand that what you listen to doesn't define your beliefs) I kinda try to avoid anything related to Black Metal... And then came Antestor - The Forsaken... (now a days I realize it kinda followed Dissection's Melodic Black Metal style) A Christian Black Metal album? I loved it! It's a wonderful album that I still love today, after hundreds of listens... For years I was unaware of Black Metal scene in general (I only listened to Christian bands... Yep) but one day I just realized God doesn't really care about what I listen to, but about what I do to other human beings and how I treat people🤷🏻♂️... Then I started listening to Mgla and Teitanblood and hundreds of Black Metal bands, I'm happy with my musical taste c: I'm pretty sure that if you want to get into Black Metal and you don't know where to start, Melodic Black Metal and Atmospheric Black Metal are the predilect gateway genres to get into it.
Bathory is a good introduction to Black metal. Mayhem comes next. Emperor, Gorgoroth, Inmortal and Dissection. Also Mercyful fate is a mix of traditional Heavy metal and Black metal. Venom was never Black metal.
@@MilkyHorrn Yeah,,. I mean you can THINK it’s scary or whatever but it’s more accessible than you’d think. I’ve turned multiple “I don’t really like black metal” people onto it. Shouldn’t be so surprising.
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I'd also throw in Bathory's Under the sign of the black mark as that is one of the albums that converted me
Quest For Metal Definitely considered that or Blood Fire Death. Maybe part 2.
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The albums that got me into the BM were...
At the Heart of Winter - Immortal
Filosofem - Burzum
De Mysteries Dom Satanas - Mayhem
The Mantle - Agalloch
The Return... - Bathorhy
In The Nightside Eclipse - Emperor
A Blaze in the Northern Sky - Darkthrone
I know they're the most famous and popular albums in the genre but if it wasn't for them then I wouldn't be listening to BM at all.
Emperors In the nightside eclipse is a true masterpiece.
The albums that got me into black metal proper were:
Lawless Darkness by Watain
Storm of the Light's Bane by Dissection
Sanctus Diavolus by Rotting Christ
In the Nightside Eclipse by Emperor
A Blaze in the Northern Sky by Darkthrone
In the Heart of Winter by Immortal
Before that I was casually into Behemoth, Mayhem, Cradle of Filth, Bathory and Tom G. Warrior's bands: Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and Triptykon
Love this video!!! Thanks for this! I really like Satyricon’s ‘Age of Nero’ and would definitely recommend that :)
the album that got me into black metal was The Satanist,I know it's blackened death but it got my interest to search for more and I eventually got into the old ones like Burzum,Satyricon and etc
Nice video! I really agree with the Emperor album you picked and the Dimmu Borgir. For me, Sons of Northern Darkness was the Immortal I got into first and it was early in my black metal listening. Other things that come to mind would be Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage or Primordial Arcana, Agalloch - anything from The Mantle and forward, newer Enslaved stuff, some Drudkh, Behemoth - The Satanist, Satyricon black n' roll albums are quite listenable.
Enslaved is the GOAT
@@MetalTrenches Hell yes! I love Hordanes Land, Frost, Eld, Mardraum, Monumension, Isa, Ruun, Vertebrae, Axioma.., Riitiir, In Times, E, and Utgard. Never heard Below the Lights, kind of been saving that one for a rainy day for whatever reason, haha. Ruun was the first one I ever heard I think. For rookies I would recommend anything from Isa or Ruun and forward. I find Yggdrasill, Vikingligr Veldi, and Blodhemn to be pretty good. Favorite is In Times.
Black Metal went from something I just didn't understand to probably my favourite subgenre throughout these last years. Back then, kinda got more into contemporary stuff before the "unsocial" classics. Still, totaly recommend somebody to start with these early highlights of mine:
1. (1999) "Stronghold" by Summoning.
2. (2016) "Rituals" by Rotting Christ.
3. (2007) "To The Nameless Dead" by Primordial.
4. (2016) "III: Trauma" by Harakiri For The Sky.
5. (2016) "The Whole Of Law" by Anaal Nathrakh (I have no clue how I got into this record right when beginning to get into BM. Extremely Heavy and relenteless.)
André Nunes Rotting Christ just BARELY missed the cut and that is easily my fav Anaal Nathrakh album. Thanks for commenting.
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Just from your channel, by music taste has gone from Metalcore and butt rock to Melodeath and death metal. I gave In the nightside eclipse a try today and I loved it. Cant wait to hear more of these albums :)
What a wonderful comment to start off the year ❤️
I transitioned from finally getting death metal to finally getting black metal. Started with Necrophobic Mark of the Necrogram, Immortal Sons of Northern Darkness, to melodic black metal like Vinterland, Dawn, etc. Now I enjoy a wider variety of the Blackmetal subgenres
Great choices
I’d recommend The Mantle by Agalloch. It got me interested in black metal. Absolute masterpiece.
Filosofem is what made me realize I loved black metal, oddly enough. The level of distortion and fuzz it has kind of has a reverse effect where it sounds more accessible to me than bands like Darkthrone or Mayhem. It’s also just a beautiful album.
imo if i wanted to introduce someone to black metal i would first show them speed/thrash bands like bewitched, hellripper, midnight and even venom then more modern black metal like abbath's band, watain, Alcest, diabolical masquerade (great symphonic black metal band from sweden) and evnetually stuff like bathory's blood fire death (the album that instantly clicked for me) , dissection storm of the light's bane, immortal at the heart of winter and for the more mom's basement production stuff : burzum filosofem, darkthrone transilvanian hunger and emperor's first 2 albums
Cradle Of Filth "Cruelty And The Beast", Moonspell "Wolfheart" and Emperor "Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk" were some of my first favorites and still love them to this day.
Good choices
Moonspell is my favorite band and Wolfheart is my favorite album. But… it’s just not a black metal
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What got me into Black Metal was Cradle of Filth. Hey you gotta start somewhere. What im most into these days, is stuff like Revenge, Watain, Behexen, Archgoat and the like of.
I still like Cradle tho. Cant deny them, gatekeepers. Without emperor, cradle wouldnt be around.
Dude new Cradle just keeps getting better imo
@@MetalTrenches thats right
Hell yeah! How about some Blasphemy, Beherit, Profanatica, and Black Witchery? I've never heard Behexen, need to check them out. I forgot to mention Cradle in my list I just posted, I got into symphonic of all black first with older Cradle, Dimmu, and Emperor, listening to those bands around 2000 and one Immortal Album, Sons of Northern Darkness, those things alone were the only "black metal" I heard for years. Behemoth too but they were pretty much going heavy on the death metal.
My Intro bands were: Bathory, Celtic Frost (I guess not proper Black Metal) Dissection and Emperor
Celtic Frost still counts. They were a big influence on Fenriz.
lol Burzum is what got me interested in black metal, but I can see how it's considered less accessible
I would add Panopticon such an amazing sound
I like black metal, but i can only listen to a few songz before i get sick of it.
Ive listened to only 3 black metal albums
Filosofem (obviously),loved it and the atmosphere it built, listen to it pretty routinely.
Blaze in the Northern Sky, i enjoyed this too and was so surprised by how "rock n roll"it sounded with the riffs, less atmospheric. Havent really listenned to it again since.
Then the last one is The Ten Sublevels of Suicide by Leviathan. It is super fucking heavy and atmospheric and all by one guy? Totally insane,have only listened to it a couple times though cus its so long and its very intense.
Ive always been put off by Dimmu Borgir because if the whole like theatrical sound they have,sounds way to cheesy and like over the top to me or something.
Ill check our some Gorgoroth though,always have heard they're (he?) meant to be classic.
Pretty recent subscriber, great video as always, keep it up ;)
Thanks for the thoughts. Glad I haven't scared you off yet XD
Well, u have a lot to say for somebody who's listened only to 3 BM albums...lol
And your first sentence doesn't make sense
@@Count_Deangeli How about you give him some recommendations?
@@MetalTrenches Well, yours are good enough - probably he won't be eager to check my recommendations cause he won't be happy with my initial response to his comment...
Count Deangeli How’s he supposed to learn if no one is willing to teach 🤔 Gotta stay constructive. I honestly missed out on great bands for years because fans were shitty to me
In may 2008 I’ve heard heavy metal for the first time in my life and started listening to it.
In autumn 2008 I just downloaded Burzum albums and I liked it (and strongly disliked Varg’s personality) I’m not a huge fan of black metal and never was but I don’t understand why get into it is so difficult for many people.
But I think Emperor “In the nightside of Eclipse” is a great choice for first black metal album. It’s much more understandable than Burzum.
Maybe I just liked “Hvis lyset tar oss” from the first time so much because I was very angry and had depression at that time 😹
wow nice too see Taake here realy underated black metal band =)
I did a tier list for them as well
Borknagar the olden domain is a great start album
That was another one of mine as well.
My first contact with Black Metal was at high school, I just saw a post of a girl I liked, and she posted a Gorgoroth song, I actually loved it at first sight, but since I am Christian (and as a teenager I didn't understand that what you listen to doesn't define your beliefs) I kinda try to avoid anything related to Black Metal...
And then came Antestor - The Forsaken... (now a days I realize it kinda followed Dissection's Melodic Black Metal style)
A Christian Black Metal album? I loved it!
It's a wonderful album that I still love today, after hundreds of listens...
For years I was unaware of Black Metal scene in general (I only listened to Christian bands... Yep) but one day I just realized God doesn't really care about what I listen to, but about what I do to other human beings and how I treat people🤷🏻♂️...
Then I started listening to Mgla and Teitanblood and hundreds of Black Metal bands, I'm happy with my musical taste c:
I'm pretty sure that if you want to get into Black Metal and you don't know where to start, Melodic Black Metal and Atmospheric Black Metal are the predilect gateway genres to get into it.
Bathory is a good introduction to Black metal. Mayhem comes next. Emperor, Gorgoroth, Inmortal and Dissection. Also Mercyful fate is a mix of traditional Heavy metal and Black metal. Venom was never Black metal.
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Was a close contender
Bro you're cool
Venom....maybe the first black ⚫️ metal band...lyrics...music...filosofem
Nachtblut is good mix if black metal with a industriel mix, i really enjoy Dogma and Chimonas
Not familiar. I'll have to check it out.
Natchblut is a Little bit like dimmu borgir , some people consider like a mix of cradle of filth and rammstein
@@olivierroussin4432 That sounds RIGHT up my alley
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Taake for beginners? 😂
@@MilkyHorrn Yeah,,. I mean you can THINK it’s scary or whatever but it’s more accessible than you’d think. I’ve turned multiple “I don’t really like black metal” people onto it. Shouldn’t be so surprising.
Dimmu Borgir it's not Black Metal!
Oh… you’re one of THOSE…