Emperor Shining (Sweden) Ungfell And because Dissection pioneered Black- Death Metal, some more from the blackened Death Genre, Behemoth Sulphur Aeon Außerwelt
Have you showed him Borknagar yet? I think they're a great incremental step between this style from dissection and slightly more extreme-elements but still pretty melodic style of Borknagar and their many, super talented singers. However the big caveat on Borknagar is that they seem to be preeetty happy about blocking reactions so I'd understand if you can't really get any of those songs as reactions for the channel.
Next classic masterpieces. Emperor - With Strength I Burn Dimmu Borgir - Mourning Palace Satyricon - Mother North Immortal - Withstand The Fall of Time Ancient - Willowthewisp Negator - Regnvm Spiritvs Immvndi Dark Funeral - Ravenna strigoi mortii
Emperor for sure! Ishan still plays very fast complex off-beat music, while still black mental. And yes GRIMA - review Enisey - Gone through hell to get their original CD! One of my fav bands.
Marduk - Materialized in Stone Judas Iscariot - Before a Circle of Darkness Throne of Ahaz - Northern Thrones Vinterland - Still the Night Is Awake and much more :D
The band never classified themselves as black metal. I always considered them to be on the edge between (melodic?) black and melodic death metal. Where dead angels lie is basically a pop song tho by black metal standards.
Come on, guys! The album ends with a solo PIANO piece, and you're not going to play it (pr even mention it) to the pianist?! Missed opportunity, s'all I'm saying! The song is called No Dreams Breed in Breathless Sleep.
@@faultier3215 I was watching a video of their last live set on YT after watching this video and I saw the guitarist shirt, kinda looked nazi-ish. I'll research the band a little more. But that would be a shame, this is true. nazis=not good.
The main song structure is in 6/8 which is typical for valsas (waltz) this is one of the main reasons why this song sounds so classically inspired to me, Jon, always came off to me as one of the most musically gifted song writers of the late 80s and early 90s extreme music scene, the sweeping melodies, almost baroque chord progressions he naturally gravitated to and his almost neo-classic sensibilities always made me think that he was heavily inspired by classical music, now I'm not sure if that was the case in reality but just from enjoying his body of work that's what I always imagined!
6/8 is pretty common in many music genres. Loads of bands use it. It’s not unique to any sub genre. Cool poly rhythm dancey feel with that underlying 4/4 pulse underneath.
There’s that neat cool 5/8 and 6/8 switch section they add where the first measure is cut by a beat that’s a nice touch change up that not often mentioned at 10:25 in this video
The storm of the lights bane album for me is a 10/10 all killer / no filler kind of album. I consider it one of the best metal albums of all time Naglfar's sheol album, batushka, old man's child, emperor, burzum, dark funeral are all good options to check out
@@goaterrorritualust there is actually pretty decent amount of metal songs in 3/4 or 6/8 :) God of forbidden light goes from 4/4 in intro into this feel also
"No Code" is a great Pearl Jam album I agree. I like your take on "Smile". Dissection is a good one to slowly move towards more Black Metal. Borknagar released a new album Friday. They are Norwegian as well and have been around 30 years. This new album "Fall" is worth checking out! Cheers guys.
It's good that we started with black metal on the channel, Emperor; Any song from the nightside eclipse would be incredible, MGLA is one of my favorites not only for its melodies but also for its lyrics
Dissection is a classic. Some suggestions: Vinterland - As I behold the dying sun Dimmu Borgir - Mourning palace & Spellbound Sear Bliss - Birth of eternity (hungarian atmospheric black metal)
Holy shit, another blast from the past, I grew up on this album on my teenage years, was one of my favorite albums at the time. I would say its deathish black metal, so not pure black metal :) I think it was a good choice to start with Where Dead Angel Lie, it's way more digestible like you said. Great review. :) Can't wait for Night's Blood (or Soulreaper :P )
Saw them live on this tour with Morbid Angel and At the Gates. Amazing performances, caught 2 shows, met Jon and Johan. Still have my LS tour shirt. Amazing times
@@Celatra everything .speed ,power,precision and stamina .I have good stand up game and grappling .Never said I am tough but it is known ! Dissection for life !
I think the most common theme throughout most black metal is nihilism. My fave black metal band if you have not heard of them is MGLA, there tremolo picking is stunning.
You should do Norwegian band Thorns. Snorre Ruch was the main influence for the 90's black metal. You can hear his influence in almost every band that came out of Scandinavia at that time. You can hear his riffs in Dissection,Mayhem,Burzum and so on.
THANK YOU, somehow while watching it I got inspired to grab my guitar and maybe play Gorgoroth Sorg, but as always I started comming with my own riffs and just wrote my second full song ever. Pretty rich in riffs and changes too. Thank you :)
Good stuff guys! You should consider showing Judson a piano piece that was composed for a black metal band to be included in an album, for example Ragnarok - Postludium, Obtained Enslavement - O Nocturne or Dissection - No Dreams Breed in Breathless Sleep.
Burzum - Det Som Engang Var Burzum - Key To The Gate Satyricon - Walk The Path Of Sorrow Gorgoroth - Gorgoroth Gorgoroth - Incipit Satan Nargaroth - Sommer Emperor - With Strength I Burn Emperor - I Am The Black Wizards Darkthrone - En Vind Av Sorg Ulver - Wolf And Fear Abigor - Eerie Constellation Immortal - Call Of The Wintermoon Immortal - Withstand The Fall Of Time
I’d say your assessment regarding whatever subgenre Dissection fits is pretty spot on. I know they’re not “true” black metal, but I’d love to hear Judson’s take on Cradle of Filth, particularly something from Vempire, Dusk and Her Embrace, or Cruelty and the Beast, the unholy trinity of albums in their catalog in my opinion.
Anything from the recent Moonlight Sorcery album would be great as an introduction to Black Metal. It‘s pretty unique and virtuoso, musically interesting and accessible.
Yees, good stuff! Quite a good explanation there of black metal. I've always enjoyed or been fascinated by black metal which makes it sound like a stairway down to doom, or hell or something, or a malestorm. It's like a repeating disharmony spiraling down to, well hell probably. It sounds cool, it affects me with awe just like seeing something dangerous, powerful such as a hurricane or other natural disasters, which can be really fascinating while dangerous. Death metal is more like an unstoppable train :D Keep rocking 🤟
Never noticed it before, but that cabinet to Richard's left is the most black metal peice of furniture ever. As for suggestions, it doesn't look like anyone has mentioned Enslaved. Maybe something from Mardraum, Monumension, or Below the Lights? "Storre Enn Tid", great song!
I remember when I first gave this a good listen, it was on the way back from Chicago shortly after this came out, I played it for a friend, and it was completely consuming. I have always admired the more melodic elements of this band. This and the Somberlain would be great albums to hear more from. It should also be said that in his particular belief system, they believed that one should exit life while on top. I never cared much for the message, but I can credit someone for living and dying by their ideals.
Hi guys been watching the channel for a short time (one week or two) yet, but I'm enjoying it a lot! Good job you guys are really nice 🤘🏻 Here's my suggestion: since Time II is coming out, I would suggest "Sons of Winter and Stars" by Wintersun (🇫🇮 melodeath from Finland) from the album Time I.
Black metal is what I listen to most the last few years. But I 100% agree with the idea that it must be your taste within the genre itself. It's very hit or miss with me. I would say black metal is both my favorite and least favorite type of metal.
Great song and another great review may I suggest some other stuff to review anything from the band testament and of course Hall of the mountain King by Savatage
Man, I haven't listened to this album in well over a decade! Not so much because I don't like it, more that I never owned it, but it was a pretty common pick in our jam room relaxing after practicing with some j's, cigarettes and beers. Really takes me back!
A classical musician could create a theoretical course (rythms, compass, greek modes, influences from classical periods, structures) explaining some sounds and structures that could be found in some extreme mwtal
To me what nakes black metal black metal is the atmosphere and yeah if course the themes/imagery. Not necessarily satanic all the time, sometimes anti-christian without any satanic theme or sometimes pagan and other spiritual theming. While death metal may delve into satanic, anti-christian and spiritual themes it's more like in a horror movie soft of way, while black metal actually is more serious and wants to sound actually evil. Death metal wants to sound brutal more for fun, while black metal wants to sound evil to express spiritual ideas or to make an anti-christian statement (which some death metal bands still do). But it's not just about that, musically, it is generally more atmospheric and is more often tonal (mostly using harmonic minor) while death metal and thrash metal are a lot more often atonal, that being said black metal does also make use of dissonance moreso than regular death metal (as opposed to disso-death), usually for atmospheric effect, even if the atmosphere is pure chaos. Black metal also tends to have a "colder" sounding guitar tone with lots of treble and little bass and mid, it's thin and icy, and heavily distorted, moreso than other metal genres (at least when it first began). It sounds more harsh and sharp, like an obsidian dagger whereas death metal's guitar tone is more like a hammer or a chainsaw in the case of swedish death metal. The vocals are more often higher pitched too, and are shrill and harsh sounding. Black metal also tends to make more use of reverb than other metal genres, but not all bkack metal bands use reverb, just as not all black metal bands use lofi recording techniques but some do, or they moreso did in the early days, which was purposefully raw and distorted to sound chaotic, although it didn't start out purposely. The first wave if black metal which was more so just extreme thrash metal was mostly an underground scene (with some very popular bands like Bathory being exception) and a lot of bands would record demo taoes themselves and trade them. But in the second wave norwegian scene, bands like darkthrone were lofi on purpose, i mean just listen to their first album and second album back to back, their first album is a lot more clean and hifi sounding.
Great Band! I read he actually planned the date and time of his suicide a year or so before. Made a public statement about it and then followed through......he wanted to opt out on his own terms. Crazy. Reinkaos is a great album too.
Watain is cool too, the guitar player was in dissection. It's kind of a tribute to Jon but original music. He got kicked out of Watain eventually for some nazi stuff just ignore that.
Dissection's songs played on piano and on classical guitar are amazing in my opinion. A lot of black metal is, like MGLA for example. Should check out Simon Smith here on youtube, he has great acoustic guitar covers of black metal songs. There's a bunch of good piano versions of black metal too, but I'd be very interested in hearing Judson's interpretations.
Their early material is often referred to as "melodic black metal", some similar-ish bands would include Sacramentum, Dawn, Vinterland, Naglfar, Lord Belial, Old Man's Child...
Aren’t you guys neighbors? I keep wishing I had a cool neighbor. But mine keeps crashing cars while drunk driving, and then drops the carcass in his yard. He has 3 of them right now.
Scandinavian black metal tends to be quite influenced by Scandinavian folk music, so that’s why you always have different time signatures and rhythms in the music.
What other black metal artists should we show Judson?
Emperor
Shining (Sweden)
Ungfell
And because Dissection pioneered Black- Death Metal, some more from the blackened Death Genre,
Behemoth
Sulphur Aeon
Außerwelt
Have you showed him Borknagar yet? I think they're a great incremental step between this style from dissection and slightly more extreme-elements but still pretty melodic style of Borknagar and their many, super talented singers.
However the big caveat on Borknagar is that they seem to be preeetty happy about blocking reactions so I'd understand if you can't really get any of those songs as reactions for the channel.
Burzum would be nice. I suggest 'Jesus' tod' and 'My journey to the stars'
Also Ihsahn, something from "After", with Jorgen Munkepy on sax :)
@@dimitriid We haven’t yet, but we’ll try it. I didn’t know they were known for blocking videos. That’s interesting
"Thorns of crimson death" it's a great song, too.
Might be my favorite of theirs
For a long time Where Dead Angles Lie was my favorite, but over the last few years I've come to prefer Thorns of Crimson Death a bit more.
Black Horizons is their best song, but that one is phenomenal too.
Nothing beats Soulreaper if we're talking Dissection
First song I heard by them
Next classic masterpieces.
Emperor - With Strength I Burn
Dimmu Borgir - Mourning Palace
Satyricon - Mother North
Immortal - Withstand The Fall of Time
Ancient - Willowthewisp
Negator - Regnvm Spiritvs Immvndi
Dark Funeral - Ravenna strigoi mortii
Emperor for sure! Ishan still plays very fast complex off-beat music, while still black mental.
And yes GRIMA - review Enisey - Gone through hell to get their original CD! One of my fav bands.
Poser BM lmao
Marduk - Materialized in Stone
Judas Iscariot - Before a Circle of Darkness
Throne of Ahaz - Northern Thrones
Vinterland - Still the Night Is Awake
and much more :D
I would've preferred King Antichrist from Dark Funeral, but something from Vobiscum is good, too.
Mgla - Age of Excuse I
Immortal - Beyond the north waves
Batushka - Yekteniya 4
Yektenia 4 my favorite Batushka song
Ayooo finally some black metal. Dissection is peak, especially this album. Hoping to see some Bathory in the future ^^
Dissection is not black metal .Dissection is Dissection . The best extreme metal band ever and forever .
@@naturalianossDissection is clearly melodic black metal.
@@kingofheavymetalNah this particular album borders between death metal and black metal.
@@KHETTIUS and you border between stupidity and retardation
The band never classified themselves as black metal. I always considered them to be on the edge between (melodic?) black and melodic death metal.
Where dead angels lie is basically a pop song tho by black metal standards.
Something to remember is Jon is playing guitar and doing vocals at the same time. Live he was perfect. Check out the Rebirth of Dissection concert.
That was awesome. Too bad a concert like it will never be played again.
That was awesome. Too bad a concert like it will never be played again.
It sounded better in the 90's. They played it faster pass and a different rythm.
Come on, guys! The album ends with a solo PIANO piece, and you're not going to play it (pr even mention it) to the pianist?! Missed opportunity, s'all I'm saying!
The song is called No Dreams Breed in Breathless Sleep.
I never listened to Dissection before.
They remind me of very old Opeth.
God Damn they are good.
Thanks for the introduction of Dissection.
Top tier band bro!!
unfortunately a bunch of nazis though
@@faultier3215 I was watching a video of their last live set on YT after watching this video and I saw the guitarist shirt, kinda looked nazi-ish. I'll research the band a little more. But that would be a shame, this is true. nazis=not good.
@@lawrencefine5020 nazis = not good, some nazi bands music = good, politic and art is not the same thing
@@faultier3215 okay buddy..
The main song structure is in 6/8 which is typical for valsas (waltz) this is one of the main reasons why this song sounds so classically inspired to me, Jon, always came off to me as one of the most musically gifted song writers of the late 80s and early 90s extreme music scene, the sweeping melodies, almost baroque chord progressions he naturally gravitated to and his almost neo-classic sensibilities always made me think that he was heavily inspired by classical music, now I'm not sure if that was the case in reality but just from enjoying his body of work that's what I always imagined!
He wasnt inspired by nothing he was just genius .People find it hard to accept it thats why people find all sort of explanations .
6/8 is pretty common in many music genres. Loads of bands use it. It’s not unique to any sub genre. Cool poly rhythm dancey feel with that underlying 4/4 pulse underneath.
There’s that neat cool 5/8 and 6/8 switch section they add where the first measure is cut by a beat that’s a nice touch change up that not often mentioned at 10:25 in this video
@@naturalianossa statement born of great ignorance.
@@chrisss3749 why ignorance ?
Dissection has some great songs! My favorites are "Black Dragon" and "God Of Forbidden Light" 😍
Try the Somberlain
Where dead angels lie is their greatest one, though.
ur favorite dissection songs are from reinkaos? what a poser
@@MrSlayerdog4 I mean they are great songs, my absolute favourite will always be the Somberlain though
The storm of the lights bane album for me is a 10/10 all killer / no filler kind of album. I consider it one of the best metal albums of all time
Naglfar's sheol album, batushka, old man's child, emperor, burzum, dark funeral are all good options to check out
It is indeed one of the best metal albums of the 90s. Musically was ahead of what most bands of that style were doing at the time.
Y'all be careful and don't go sleepin on Naglfar now!
Love this black metal folk waltz song :)
Fukk! Thats why! How could i didnt get it?! 😐
@@goaterrorritualust there is actually pretty decent amount of metal songs in 3/4 or 6/8 :) God of forbidden light goes from 4/4 in intro into this feel also
Cradle of Filth - Heaven Torn Asunder. The entire Dusk... and Her Embrace is an atmospheric Black Metal masterpiece.
"No Code" is a great Pearl Jam album I agree. I like your take on "Smile".
Dissection is a good one to slowly move towards more Black Metal. Borknagar released a new album Friday. They are Norwegian as well and have been around 30 years. This new album "Fall" is worth checking out! Cheers guys.
It's good that we started with black metal on the channel, Emperor; Any song from the nightside eclipse would be incredible, MGLA is one of my favorites not only for its melodies but also for its lyrics
Mgla sucks ass big time . They are an emo band with black metal sound
Dissection is a classic. Some suggestions:
Vinterland - As I behold the dying sun
Dimmu Borgir - Mourning palace & Spellbound
Sear Bliss - Birth of eternity (hungarian atmospheric black metal)
There's several piano versions of "where dead angels lie" he would enjoy 🤘
As a Pearl Jam and a Dissection fan, thanks for this was a great review!
Nights Blood is my favorite Dissection song, really hope he shows him!
Holy shit, another blast from the past, I grew up on this album on my teenage years, was one of my favorite albums at the time.
I would say its deathish black metal, so not pure black metal :)
I think it was a good choice to start with Where Dead Angel Lie, it's way more digestible like you said.
Great review. :)
Can't wait for Night's Blood (or Soulreaper :P )
Love this song, listened to it thousands of times…
Saw them live on this tour with Morbid Angel and At the Gates. Amazing performances, caught 2 shows, met Jon and Johan. Still have my LS tour shirt. Amazing times
I would really like to see you guys trying out Agalloch!
Emo music for weak people
@@naturalianossalright tough guy, what makes you better than people listening to Aggaloch?
@@Celatra everything .speed ,power,precision and stamina .I have good stand up game and grappling .Never said I am tough but it is known ! Dissection for life !
Another incredible band you've introduced me to. And what a backstory. Keep being you gents 💚🤙
Absolute MASTERPIECE.
This song is black metal anthem!👍👍🤘
Love this song, and Bodom After Midnights cover of it as well. So good.
One of my absolute favourite songs from my favourite album from my favourite band.
Another interesting black metal song for a composer is: The loss and curse of reverence by Emperor. Also Inno a Satana has a great structure.
Best start ever for a noobie on Black Metal cenário.
Keep showing him dissection songs... im sure he will enjoy it.
I think the most common theme throughout most black metal is nihilism. My fave black metal band if you have not heard of them is MGLA, there tremolo picking is stunning.
I love MGLA!
such a great band. Storm of the Lights Bane and The Somberlain are two of my favourite Metal albums ever
Storm of the light's bane is such a great album! I've listened to it so many times 🙂 Good choice!
You should do Norwegian band Thorns. Snorre Ruch was the main influence for the 90's black metal. You can hear his influence in almost every band that came out of Scandinavia at that time. You can hear his riffs in Dissection,Mayhem,Burzum and so on.
THANK YOU, somehow while watching it I got inspired to grab my guitar and maybe play Gorgoroth Sorg, but as always I started comming with my own riffs and just wrote my second full song ever. Pretty rich in riffs and changes too. Thank you :)
SHOW HIM WINTERSUN! ---- Cmon! "Winter Madness" is a classic as classic gets, you guys will love it
Now give him something to warm him up! Something he can dance to! Like Archspire!
Next something dissonant, for example Deathspell Omega - Abscission :)
not exaclty a song to overwhelm your musician mate. This song i love and i thank you for doing this!
Its great to see all the Emperor love in the comments! I would love to see that as well.
Favourite album by Pearl Jam...and i thought i was the only one!!! You should release that take on SMILE. Incredible rendition.
Burzum - Dunkelheit or Ea, Lord of the depths
Jesus dod
grazhdanskaya oborona - russkoe pole experimentov
IMPALED NAZARENE
This is one of the best songs ever!!!
It has everyting.
RIP Jon and what could he have done if he was not over the edge...
Do the Edge of Sanity - Crimson. Could be a split into series.
This was really cool, looking forward to more songs being covered
Good stuff guys! You should consider showing Judson a piano piece that was composed for a black metal band to be included in an album, for example Ragnarok - Postludium, Obtained Enslavement - O Nocturne or Dissection - No Dreams Breed in Breathless Sleep.
Talking about black metal it would be great if you guys could do Emperor - With Strength I Burn (studio version) very epic song!
yes, please
do 'maha kali' next!
I LOVE Dissection! 🤘🏼🤘🏼🔥 Hail Jon!
Emperor - The Acclamation of bonds
Thank you for playing my favorite band, you made my day
Ulver - A Fearful Symmetry
Enslaved Frost
looking forward to more black metal. i think judson might enjoy it
The album has an ending instrumental song played entirely on piano, Judson could probably enjoy it.
Burzum - Det Som Engang Var
Burzum - Key To The Gate
Satyricon - Walk The Path Of Sorrow
Gorgoroth - Gorgoroth
Gorgoroth - Incipit Satan
Nargaroth - Sommer
Emperor - With Strength I Burn
Emperor - I Am The Black Wizards
Darkthrone - En Vind Av Sorg
Ulver - Wolf And Fear
Abigor - Eerie Constellation
Immortal - Call Of The Wintermoon
Immortal - Withstand The Fall Of Time
Hoping you touch on Darkthrone, Marduk, Bathory, Burzum, Behemoth etc in the future :)
Arcturus Ad Astra maybe?
I’d say your assessment regarding whatever subgenre Dissection fits is pretty spot on. I know they’re not “true” black metal, but I’d love to hear Judson’s take on Cradle of Filth, particularly something from Vempire, Dusk and Her Embrace, or Cruelty and the Beast, the unholy trinity of albums in their catalog in my opinion.
Anything from the recent Moonlight Sorcery album would be great as an introduction to Black Metal. It‘s pretty unique and virtuoso, musically interesting and accessible.
Yees, good stuff! Quite a good explanation there of black metal. I've always enjoyed or been fascinated by black metal which makes it sound like a stairway down to doom, or hell or something, or a malestorm.
It's like a repeating disharmony spiraling down to, well hell probably. It sounds cool, it affects me with awe just like seeing something dangerous, powerful such as a hurricane or other natural disasters, which can be really fascinating while dangerous.
Death metal is more like an unstoppable train :D
Keep rocking 🤟
Iced earth - dantes inferno. Still owe me that one!!
Abigor "Liberty Rises a Diagonal Flame" could be worth a go.
Never noticed it before, but that cabinet to Richard's left is the most black metal peice of furniture ever. As for suggestions, it doesn't look like anyone has mentioned Enslaved. Maybe something from Mardraum, Monumension, or Below the Lights? "Storre Enn Tid", great song!
More BM please.
Can’t wait to hear Jenson original compositions after his voyage through the realms of metal
I remember when I first gave this a good listen, it was on the way back from Chicago shortly after this came out, I played it for a friend, and it was completely consuming. I have always admired the more melodic elements of this band. This and the Somberlain would be great albums to hear more from. It should also be said that in his particular belief system, they believed that one should exit life while on top. I never cared much for the message, but I can credit someone for living and dying by their ideals.
there is actually a piano song on this Album (No dreams in breathless sleep)!
kinda too short for a video but would be interesting what he thinks of…
Hi guys been watching the channel for a short time (one week or two) yet, but I'm enjoying it a lot! Good job you guys are really nice 🤘🏻
Here's my suggestion: since Time II is coming out, I would suggest "Sons of Winter and Stars" by Wintersun (🇫🇮 melodeath from Finland) from the album Time I.
Black metal is what I listen to most the last few years. But I 100% agree with the idea that it must be your taste within the genre itself. It's very hit or miss with me. I would say black metal is both my favorite and least favorite type of metal.
Love dissection, specifically that first album has soo many bangers… like somberlain, and black horizon… are so cool 😎
Lux Occulta - The heresiarch
Great song and another great review may I suggest some other stuff to review anything from the band testament and of course Hall of the mountain King by Savatage
Man, I haven't listened to this album in well over a decade! Not so much because I don't like it, more that I never owned it, but it was a pretty common pick in our jam room relaxing after practicing with some j's, cigarettes and beers.
Really takes me back!
You must do Watain in the end of the education of Judson!
A classical musician could create a theoretical course (rythms, compass, greek modes, influences from classical periods, structures) explaining some sounds and structures that could be found in some extreme mwtal
Wth, you just keep listening to swedish bands I, as a swedish metalhead, didnt rly know about. :)
Btw, proceed in Swedish is "fortsätt"
Mortal world turn to Ice,
This be Goblin paradise!
Black Metal: Dark lyrics, distorted guitars, screaming growling vocals basically
To me what nakes black metal black metal is the atmosphere and yeah if course the themes/imagery. Not necessarily satanic all the time, sometimes anti-christian without any satanic theme or sometimes pagan and other spiritual theming. While death metal may delve into satanic, anti-christian and spiritual themes it's more like in a horror movie soft of way, while black metal actually is more serious and wants to sound actually evil. Death metal wants to sound brutal more for fun, while black metal wants to sound evil to express spiritual ideas or to make an anti-christian statement (which some death metal bands still do). But it's not just about that, musically, it is generally more atmospheric and is more often tonal (mostly using harmonic minor) while death metal and thrash metal are a lot more often atonal, that being said black metal does also make use of dissonance moreso than regular death metal (as opposed to disso-death), usually for atmospheric effect, even if the atmosphere is pure chaos. Black metal also tends to have a "colder" sounding guitar tone with lots of treble and little bass and mid, it's thin and icy, and heavily distorted, moreso than other metal genres (at least when it first began). It sounds more harsh and sharp, like an obsidian dagger whereas death metal's guitar tone is more like a hammer or a chainsaw in the case of swedish death metal. The vocals are more often higher pitched too, and are shrill and harsh sounding. Black metal also tends to make more use of reverb than other metal genres, but not all bkack metal bands use reverb, just as not all black metal bands use lofi recording techniques but some do, or they moreso did in the early days, which was purposefully raw and distorted to sound chaotic, although it didn't start out purposely. The first wave if black metal which was more so just extreme thrash metal was mostly an underground scene (with some very popular bands like Bathory being exception) and a lot of bands would record demo taoes themselves and trade them. But in the second wave norwegian scene, bands like darkthrone were lofi on purpose, i mean just listen to their first album and second album back to back, their first album is a lot more clean and hifi sounding.
The best metal album, by far!
The best music album
Guys I'd love to see a reaction to something off their Reinkaos album. Dark Mother Divine or Maha Kali maybe. Give Judson the full experience lol
Great Band! I read he actually planned the date and time of his suicide a year or so before. Made a public statement about it and then followed through......he wanted to opt out on his own terms. Crazy. Reinkaos is a great album too.
Satyricon - Phoenix
@Greatmeasures1 listen to ulver Bergtatt album any song from that album is perfect especially track 3 classical mixed with black metal.
Watain is cool too, the guitar player was in dissection. It's kind of a tribute to Jon but original music. He got kicked out of Watain eventually for some nazi stuff just ignore that.
Classic song from my country! Is black metal big where you come from?
Another Great video guys 👌
There is beauty in darkness, but most peeple are afraid of the dark.
should let him transpose these songs for piano so we can hear his take on it would be awesome
Dissection's songs played on piano and on classical guitar are amazing in my opinion. A lot of black metal is, like MGLA for example.
Should check out Simon Smith here on youtube, he has great acoustic guitar covers of black metal songs.
There's a bunch of good piano versions of black metal too, but I'd be very interested in hearing Judson's interpretations.
I don't know how did I get here, good duo perspective, cult song.
Here are some newer greats (alongside the many other excellent suggestions of classics)
Afsky - Tyende Sang
Drudkh - Furrows of Gods
Their early material is often referred to as "melodic black metal", some similar-ish bands would include Sacramentum, Dawn, Vinterland, Naglfar, Lord Belial, Old Man's Child...
There are some Piano covers of this song
there is one where the piano is out of tune and it sounds even cooler
Grima - The Moon and its shadows
i have been waiting for a Dissection song, he would make a cover of No Dreams Breed In Breathless Sleep
Aren’t you guys neighbors? I keep wishing I had a cool neighbor. But mine keeps crashing cars while drunk driving, and then drops the carcass in his yard. He has 3 of them right now.
Should have him react to something from the very first Wintersun album
Scandinavian black metal tends to be quite influenced by Scandinavian folk music, so that’s why you always have different time signatures and rhythms in the music.