Black metal survived 2021. Not it's most impressive year, as it is no longer in fashion. Nihilistic hate is too real for some people who when it was in fashion must have thought corpse paint was just for laughs and giggles and they were people just pretending to be misanthropic. Granted the genre itself was less than prolific. Only 2 albums made the top 10 metal albums. It is that time of year to venture back into the crypts to take another listen to some classics as well as see where black metal is heading so far this year. Before you get your little glue sniffing hopes up this doesn't mean I'm settling back for the next 28 days and be alright with blast beats for the sake of blast beats or ease up on the mandate that I passed going into the new year that I would asking more from black metal bands along with every other genre. The days of settling for tremolo picking and the same old same ole, are long gone. I want black metal that stands out from the pack. I want darkness, but I want to to sound beautiful, sonic and hypnotic.
If a band is typically described as raw black metal, then chances are I will be bored quick by anything with production quality less than Horna. If I want to hear something that sounds like old Burzum or Darkthrone, well I own those albums. What I will look for is new depressive suicidal black metal, which is one of the only sub-genres that I am willing to compromise on recording quality for, sometimes as older Cold World has proven a little rough around the edges works to create the atmosphere. Since history is a key component here, we are going to going to take another listen to some of the albums that influenced the genre even though they might not be what kids growing up these days consider black metal, but they don't know shit any way.
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