Leviathan is like Weakling, except without the shitty meandering compositions that go nowhere. Check out The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide.
Emperor, Live at the Astoria, October 28 http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d65/weaselcannon/EmperorAstoriaGig-lowres.jpg
essential: immortal - pure holocaust burzum - burzum/aske, det som engang var, hvis lyset tar oss, filosofem darkthrone - transilvanian hunger, panzerfaust, under a funeral moon, a blaze in the northern sky bathory - under the sign of the black mark, blood fire death enslaved - vikinglgr veldi mayhem - live in leipzig, de mysteriis dom sathanas emperor - in the nightside eclipse gorgoroth - antichrist ulver - bergtatt graveland - thousand swords summoning - dol guldur beherit - drawing down the moon necromantia - scarlet evil witching black varathron - his majesty at the swamp less essential still great: nokturnal mortum - goat horns, lunar poetry (all their albums are pretty good) deathspell omega - si monumentum requires circumspice drudkh - all of them mutiilation - remains of a dead ruined cursed soul, vampires of black imperial blood vlad tepes/belketre - march to the black holocaust (split) alcest - le secret nocternity - onyx krieg - the black house, patrick bateman antaeus - cut your flesh and worship satan moonblood - blut and krieg velvet cacoon - genevieve graveland - memory and destiny + anything after memory and destiny demoncy - joined in darkness gontyna kry - welowie obviously much more but whatever
An update: So far, I've listened toEmperor - Nightside, Anthems, and Summoning - Stronghold. Good suggestions on those! Gang, my only real knowledge of BM was (oh shit, I hate to admit this...) COF and DB. Then I heard WitTR and thought that maybe I should check out more, better BM. So, this has been very cool. My first impressions of Nightside are that it is way more complex than I had imagined it to be, and it had some utterly jaw-dropping moments. The standout for me on a single listen was "A Fine Day to Die". I'm sure I'll discover much more on multiple listenings. I listened in the dark, undisturbed as directed, btw. How anyone can even speak after singing like that baffles me. It almost made my throat hurt! Anthems sounded slicker, more straight singing, but still lots to love. Nothing really jumped out at me, but that's because I really loved it all. I'll be spending more time with this, too. Stronghold was obviously very different from the Emperor stuff, but I enjoyed it. Much more atmospheric and mellow. My one issue with it was that the female vocals were pretty terrible. She sounded flat a number of times on these long held out notes, and it was cringe inducing. Other than that, very cool. About to listen to Abigor - Nachthymnen now. I'm really enjoying this, thanks for all the sugestions everyone.
1. With Strenght I Burn 2. Ensorcelled by Khaos 3. Beyond the Great Vast Forest 4. Ob-la-di, ob-la-da 5. I am the Black Wizards 6. Grey 7. Wordless Chamber
So, I really dug the Emperor. I only have the live disc and WotT left to get. Also, really like Abigor - Nachthymnen. Is the rest of their stuff up to that standard?
I just got into Emperor, and black metal in general recently. I think Anthems To The Welkins At Dusk is their best one.
