Best artist Black Metal of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ “Belus” is simply Burzum, and this statement should suffice to silence all the black champions of the extremes of the noughties.

❝ "Filosofem" by Burzum is a beautiful album.

❝ But, in the end, what truly matters is that the music of Burzum, whether it be beautiful or ugly, precious or negligible as it may appear, can answer to one single, indisputable word: Freedom.

❝ Those of the Unlight, or "Those of the non-light," is the second album by Marduk, featuring the Tolkienian Nazgûl, the Ringwraiths, on the cover.

❝ Recommended for those who want to approach black metal as it is melodic and easy to assimilate.

❝ A band from Sweden, the homeland of the fastest and most combative Black Metal (Dark Funeral!), the kind that leaves little room for vaguely depressive emotions and focuses more on a sort of continuous hammering.

❝ THEY ARE BACK!

❝ Black Metal is not a genre like the others, it is truth.

❝ All smoke and no fire.

❝ “The Ulver are the living proof that music has neither boundaries nor genres.”

❝ “Ulver is a schizophrenic band.”

❝ “Wolves evolves once again”.

❝ There is no need to make it a mystery: the French Deathspell Omega have become one of the most important black metal realities of recent years.

❝ This is one of the best episodes ever in black metal;

❝ The album aims at nothing and precisely for this reason, it achieves two distinct results: total incomprehension (ergo: disgust) or a slimy, disarming sensation of conscious introspective anguish.

❝ Dissection indeed represents the perfect synthesis of a certain way of understanding metal music: they created a style that incorporates the characteristics of the two main extreme genres that found fertile ground in Northern Europe, death metal and black metal, and they combined them with the melodic influences characteristic of classic metal from the eighties.

❝ The fourth song is perhaps the most famous by Dissection: "Where Dead Angels Lie", a rare example of black metal ballad, where more marked acoustic breaks give the song an aura of melancholy, accentuated by the sad lyrics: "A spell was cast and the sky turned red/ The angel's heart froze to ice/ In the gloomy sky - The silence where dead angels lie".

❝ The charismatic frontman Jon Nodtveidt brings to life a record that lays the foundations for a new conception of the genre to which it claims to belong...

❝ “Let’s get it into our heads: the Satyricon who created old-school black metal masterpieces like “Nemesis Divina” (I hear someone mumbling, trying to imitate Satyr in “Mother North”...) no longer exist.”

❝ “I find myself in serious difficulty trying to describe the greatness of “Nemesis Divina.””

❝ “Do you want to end your, indisputably, flourishing career so miserably, or make it in time to change your mind?”

❝ This CD is truly a masterpiece of black metal, as evidenced by the fact that neither Dimmu nor other black metal bands have ever produced albums like this again.

❝ TANGLED.

❝ Ultimately, a work to absolutely own if for no other reason than it is one of the most beautiful albums (second only, in my opinion, to Enthrone Darkness Triumphant) by the Norwegian group and symphonic black metal in general.

❝ What you need to do is just listen to 'Under the Sign Of Hell' and revere it as a unique album (in my opinion) in its genre, an absolutely original work that will divide... with good reason. This isn’t music for everyone!

❝ 'Pentagram', the debut album of the Norwegians Gorgoroth, belongs to this latter category.

❝ For me, the band's most mature album (not the best, the most mature), which breaks away from the usual black metal stylistic clichés.

❝ At the moment, this is the best metal album of 2008, Ihsahn and his crew deliver a true masterpiece of music.

❝ Beyond personal tastes, one of the best “metal” albums of this first half of 2010.

❝ “Variety” seems to be the keyword for this work.

❝ They came like a bolt from the blue on the Sanremo stage in 1995, and they won, deservedly, with a song that was immediately loved by everyone for its lively cheerfulness and freshness.

❝ Viva Emptiness is a journey into true and sincere darkness.

❝ Describing Katatonia’s masterpiece, now dated 1996, without exaggeration is utterly impossible.

❝ Katatonia dispel any doubts that had crept in of late and close a circle probably fueling all the class they had in the tank; nothing better could have been asked for.

❝ Strid is a tremendous group, let that be clear right away.

❝ KEEP THE BLACK FLAME ALIVE!

❝ The Enslaved have a special gift. A twenty-year career without ever missing a beat or losing focus: very few can boast of such a feat.

❝ This disc embodies paganism in music without ever being garish or redundant.

❝ Released in the now distant 1994, it lives on those epic-funereal atmospheres that made the fortune of Nordic metal;

❝ Never did the mantle of Evil cover such vast regions of this poor, miserable world of ours.

❝ Ah, Emperor... Just the name inspires reverential fear, an atypical band and yet strongly adhering to the Euronymous canon, with their sumptuous keyboards amidst icy riffs.

❝ They are the four emperors and this is their kingdom! Now go away, however, they have tolerated you enough!

❝ Lurker Of Chalice is a disorienting project.

❝ NON-REVIEW for a NON-FILM.

❝ shot by Neri Parenti in '89, with nods to the upcoming soccer World Cup, "Fratelli d'Italia" initially appears to be the classic filler in the otherwise brilliant career of the director

❝ Neri Parenti focuses entirely on the usual gags full of asses, shit, piss, boobs, and pussy,

❝ what we can define as a perverted black’n’roll

❝ If you liked “Old Strange Brew”, you cannot deprive yourself of this “Morbid Fascination of Death”, its worthy continuation.

❝ And I can’t guarantee that you’ll be able to fall asleep...

❝ A dark album. A (wonderfully) avant-garde album.

❝ It's not an obsession of mine, or maybe it is; the fact is that these days I can't listen to anything else when I can, and therefore I feel it's my duty to share my impressions of a band that, in my opinion, deserves a lot of recognition, certainly for their content and extraordinary artistic talent.

❝ Origin is peculiar in being a completely acoustic and orchestral work, and therefore, it follows, that it has nothing of the Black or Metal foundation that has almost always accompanied the band since the dawn of their own genesis.

❝ This is in my opinion the most important work by Bathory from the genius Quorthon (RIP).

❝ Cold. The song of the North, an electric waltz of dim lights among the pines, a giant with a head covered in moss, a distant sun, a glimmer amidst sleepy heaths buried under inches of powdery snow.

❝ Quorton was already looking beyond, already ahead of his disciples.

❝ “And there were no more days.”

❝ Isengard is his solo project, now shelved, with which the drummer released two works; the first is "Vinterskugge" dated 1994, and the second "Hostmorke" dated 1995.

❝ "Vinterskugge" (Winter Shadows) is a monumental project, extremely heterogeneous, which possesses its indelible charm in the fact that it is one of the few releases that, although not a true compilation, span the entire career of an artist, offering a portrait that is as truthful, complete, and always fresh.

❝ In conclusion: "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" is a timeless classic, Mayhem's masterpiece and a must for anyone who wants to get an idea of what Black Metal is or get closer to this subgenre.

❝ "Come on Leipzig. Come on!!! Join us pure fucking Armageddon!!!"

❝ A few weeks ago "Ordo Ad Chao" was released, and it's terrible. Very much so.

❝ The music, as mentioned, hasn't changed significantly: it has simply become much better; reaching rare levels according to the writer.

❝ Nortt defines his style as "Pure Depressive BlackFuneral Doom Metal" (a bit cumbersome…), and the music truly reflects this definition, blending the black soul (minimalism, repetitiveness, and melody) with that of Doom (granite riffs, slowness, suffocating atmosphere).

❝ The Windir, meaning "warrior" in Norwegian, were one of the few genuinely interesting and original bands within a genre that is too easily exhausted, photocopiable, and sterilely recyclable like extreme metal.

❝ A peculiarity, even before talking about the purely technical side of the tracks, is the use of the dialect, from which the band takes its name, in the same lyrics of the album, perhaps emphasizing the heartfelt belonging to the Nordic lands.

❝ "Die Festung" ("The Fortress"), once listened to, remains little more than an auditory hallucination, an acoustic mirage.

❝ One song, 35 minutes.

❝ Simply, the best product of the scene in the XXI century. Essential.

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"...Again Shall Be" is the blade that slowly sinks into your belly, but with the awareness that your sword is penetrating your enemy's ass.

❝ Shocking.

❝ At this point, it might be superfluous to say that it is an album TO HAVE by a more unique than rare group.

❝ Rest assured that after the 35 minutes of "Eschaton" life will start smiling at you again.

❝ Who the hell do they think we are? NSBM is beyond idiocy! Ours was simply a metaphor describing mass hysteria, brainwashing, and the general idiocy of the herd.

❝ The components of this album are pain, despair, and solitude, like any good depressive black metal album worth its name.

❝ A forest... a forgotten forest, where you can release your own sadness, your own screams of pain, while sweet and hypnotic music surrounds you, making you feel one with nature.

❝ An extraordinary personality, impeccable production, and impressive technique save the group from mere self-celebration, making this record a masterpiece not only of black metal, not only of metal, but of all music.

❝ "Maiestrit" does not aim to shine for experimentalism or avant-garde, but for the passion and inventiveness with which each song is genuinely imbued, and in this, it sounds 100% Negura Bunget.

❝ Negura Bunget have managed to gift us a masterpiece light years away from everything that surrounds them and that knows how to move and keep us engaged throughout its long duration (about 67 minutes), difficult to comprehend but, once understood and internalized, it provides the right coordinates for a new way of understanding the extreme.

❝ “The Bergen duo composes the definitive black metal work, unleashes an animal born of the wind and the Norwegian night, ready to devour the ears of the unfortunate listeners…”

❝ “Battles In The North is perhaps one of the greatest albums that the Norwegian black metal scene has ever produced.”

❝ “In 1999, Immortal delighted us with one of the most beautiful black albums of all time.”

❝ Born under the sign of musical isolation, in Greece at the end of the eighties, which corresponded to a sort of third world of heavy metal, Rotting Christ managed to emerge with their own style that allowed them to build a long career and also to kickstart a national music scene, that of Hellenic black metal, wrongly overlooked.

❝ “Triarchy of the Lost Lovers” is an album of great importance in the discography of a band like Rotting Christ.

❝ Ultimately, in the opinion of the author, “Theogonia” is one of the best metal releases of the 2000s.

❝ This is not just viking. This is musical poetry.

❝ In my opinion, it remains the highest peak reached in the genre, and thus also by the artist, who has nonetheless continued to produce works that are never less than excellent.

❝ For those who are not adept at approaching the pagan chants of Vratyas Vakyas, the proposal is that of a folkmetal with direct and linear structures, yet so engaging and fascinating that it manages to touch the heart from the first listen.

❝ The notes of the storm! ...The breath of an icy wind that carries with it pagan echoes, gripping every one of your senses in an almost supernatural rumble.

❝ a banjo? A banjo in a Norwegian black metal record????? listen to believe: track 5, minute 3:21

❝ If we could associate a sound with a sensation, listening to Taake we would most certainly feel a warm chill of cold.

❝ Why can't we have a bit of warm and passionate black metal?

❝ Venom came from the trash, became famous by mixing punk nonsense with formulas extracted from the little satanist's manual, and created great turmoil without really knowing much, but expressed through their ramblings more than they intended to.

❝ What are you waiting for? Make it yours along with the previous 3 albums: Possessed is Venom 100%.

❝ Venom have the privilege and merit of having marked an entire genre, a stylistic current, with the title of their album, ("Black Metal").

❝ Summing it up, we can confidently define "Heart Of The Ages" as a unique work within the music scene, one of those few works where everything is in its right place, where no note is out of place, in one word (often overused), a masterpiece.

❝ Usual refined cover. Usual refined font. Usual poetic name.

❝ In Omnio, this does not happen, and it becomes clear from the outset that In The Woods use metal as a mere springboard towards something absolutely different.

❝ "His Majesty at the Swamp" showcases originality right from the title compared to the conventional Nordic black scene, particularly the Scandinavian: we are not facing triumphant and gaudy satanism or icy guitar slashes, but rather a sound that transports the listener into the mud of a swamp where one sinks slowly, almost without noticing.

❝ Mysticum, a Norwegian formation credited with an initial proposition of certain sounds that would find increasing success as the century turned; a seminal band, born in 1992 but reaching their first full-length only in 1996, they were creators of a new wayto conceive black, modernizing it and thus paving the way for contaminations in the years to follow: also unfortunate, as they did not receive any of what they deserved, dying shortly thereafter in the most sordid anonymity.

❝ Not a proper work, but actually a promotional split for the two bands, attempting to launch each other: a disc containing a track from the Norwegian wolves and one from fellow countrymen Mysticum, which adds absolutely nothing new to the discographies of the two bands.

❝ In fact, this album is the Edda in music.

❝ What is undoubtedly conveyed is engagement, and an impassioned immersion into the story, imagined or otherwise.

❝ It's a shame it's just a mini...

❝ The Aura Noir are an essential band for anyone who loves extreme metal, which primarily harkens back to the old metal of the '80s, thrash (and when I say thrash, I DO NOT mean Metallica, Megadeth, and the like), and the old school black metal of Venom, Morbid, and early Beherit.

❝ The band manages to perfectly blend electronics and the fiercest black metal, creating a futuristic and alienating atmosphere.

❝ this isn’t an album; this is a journey without destination, a musical exploration in search of anti-music.

❝ A cd to be listened to not under a starry sky, but in winter in the apparent nocturnal calm of a crowded and aseptic city.

❝ The album literally reeks of despair.

❝ A great album!

❝ The impact with the first track is love at first listen:

❝ This album takes us back to the darkest and most romantic '80s, those of hand-photocopied posters and demo tapes circulating throughout Europe.

❝ The style presented obviously recalls that of Dissection, which is that perfect blend of black and melodic death that many have tried to reproduce without ever truly succeeding, presented here with a vague thrash aftertaste in some passages and a lesser sense of solemnity;

❝ "Even the rain loves..."

❝ “Black metal is the art and weapon in my hand, that never fall asleep ‘till every man is killed”

❝ This one-hour and ten-minute disc represents for me a milestone of the genre, a must for enthusiasts, and I do not exclude that some riff might appeal even to the uninitiated.

❝ Grotesque have the honor of belonging to this category, whose name evokes a pioneering era at the end of the eighties when metal sought to go beyond the limits of thrash to evolve into something even more extreme.

❝ "Second wave black metal"

❝ "Slaughtersun" (1998) is an INCREDIBLE album, I would say perfect in every note, and deserves to be placed in the pantheon of classics among the great records of Burzum, Mayhem, Graveland, Mutiilation, and Judas Iscariot.

❝ "Vittra" is the dazzling debut of the Swedish band Naglfar.

❝ 2005: The important label Century Media signs the Swedish black metallers Naglfar who, after showcasing their talents with 3 albums, now arrive at their fourth full-length release, "Pariah".

❝ But they are not, so dedicate forty-six minutes of your life, before the darkness falls, and "dedicate" this fantastic album to yourself.