Let's Talk About "First Wave Black Metal"
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- Master's Hammer
Ritual
• Master's Hammer - Ritu...
Root
Zjevení/The Revelation
• Root - Zjevení/The Rev...
Vulcano
Bloody Vengeance
• Vulcano - Bloody Venge...
Sodom
In The Sign of Evil
• SODOM - In the Sign of...
Tormentor
The Seventh Day Of Doom
• Tormentor - The Sevent...
Mortuary Drape
Into the Drape
• Mortuary Drape - Into ...
Mefisto
The Truth
• Mefisto - The Truth (C...
Morbid
December Moon
• Morbid - December Moon...
Sabbat
Evoke
• Sabbat - Evoke (1992) ...
Bulldozer
IX
• Bulldozer - IX (FULL A...
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Sabbat is awesome. Not to mention they have consistently produced great material to this day.
Their first album Envenom is my all time favorites easily
Root is probably my favourite first wave act. Their first 3 albums are amazing and I love that they evolved their sound over the years and didn't stick to any formulas nor did they try to capitalize on the success of the 2nd wave.
When Wyatt said “the land of the rising sun” I felt that in my soul
There is also Death SS and Necrodeath. Italy had a good scene since the very beginning.
And Mortuary Drape
@@graablick9471Yeah Mortuary Drape is easily my favorite Italian band.
@@clitoralrosary9474 not black metal but check out Novembre if you haven't, super underrated italian band.
As far as I've seen, your channel is the only one making videos like this. Keep doing it! I look for these whenever I start getting into a particular genre, but I can hardly ever find a video on it; even Death Metal, all there is is an Anthony Fantano video... where he shows some of the most popular Death Metal albums ever. Keep up the good work, these will definitely help people get into the music.
First wave black metal is one of my favorite waves of black metal simply because of how many gems there are hidden within it. I couldn't help but agree with every single one of these. I'm glad you chose Into the Drape for Mortuary Drape since that was the EP that got me into them and most people only mention All the Witches Dance. Totally agree about Masters Hammer and Bulldozer as well. You pretty much summed up what Bulldozer are - Venom but better and faster in every way. Italy is one of my favorite places for first wave black metal hands down. Fantastic list man.
That one by Mortuary Drape is PURE darkness and evil in its rawest (or "Primordial"...) form
Morbid is one of my favorite bands. I think that Dead's vocals on December Moon are some of the most eerie , monstrous , and unique vocals ever recorded and the music is absolutely amazing.
I wish Dead stayed with morbid tbh
Black metal from Brazil fckn slays
brazil sucks ass
Dude I'm loving these vids where you recommend great albums from specific metal genres. Keep the work
Volcano, Mutilator and Chakal are amazing underground Brazilian first wave black metal bands
Ritual is so fucking solid. discovered it after you mentioned it in a previous video and it's probably now my favorite from the first wave.
I think you forgot the Colombian Scene. Parabellum, Sacrilegio, Blasfemia etc... For me it isn't real first wave black metal, but also doesn't fit in with the second wave black metal. They were way ahead of their time for me. But glad to see that finaly someone showed some love for Sabbat, Vulcano, Masters Hammer...
Imperator, Mystifier, Expulser, Dorsal Atlanticas first release
The Chad First Wave BM Enjoyer: "yes."
good
My favourite first-wave BM album will always be the Steamhammer version of Sodom's "Obsessed by Cruelty," with Bulldozer's "Day of Wrath" being a close second 🤘
Thanks for this! There are definitely some new names for me to check out. Great presentation!
Very cool video! Love your channel
Totally totally agree with you.. I'm 48 and and have been into black metal since I was 15. I remember well 1st wave..
Holy shit fucking awesome video! I know I’m late to the party for this video but these are some really great essential listens. Also wanted to mention that Necrolust demo from Vader is really good too. Really influential stuff
Man thanks for the recommendation of awesome first wave bands I was that guy , only knew Bathory, Venom, hellhammer, sarcófago ,you just won a subscriber
Thanks for the recommendations \,,/
I discovered all these bands via Fenriz... that man is a walking music encyclopedia
Good to hear someone bring up Sabbat, Master's Hammer, and Bulldozer. These guys were ahead of their time. You should do a video of bands that influenced the first waves like Angel Witch and Witchfynde. If you have that's even better. Rock on dude 🤘
"Czech Republican"
was waiting for someone to catch that mistake
Pretty sure they're Czech democrats
My Top favorite Black Metal and Black Metal related bands
1. Agalloch
2. Darkthrone
3. Desaster
4. Moonblood
5. Drowning the Light
6. Blasphemy
7. Bathory
8. Summoning
9. ColdWorld
10. Abigor
11. Foudre Noire
12. Horna
13. Alcest
14. Grand Belial's Key
15. Deafheaven
16. Sargiest
17. Emperor
18. Black Funeral
19. Anaal Nathrakh
20. Forteresse
21. Hinsidig
22. Empaligon
23. Ulver
24. Ghost Bath
25. Sorcier des glaces
26. Marduk
27. Seeds of iblis
28. azghal
29. gorgoroth
30. Lord belial
33 black alter
34. Limbonic art
And many more
eternally diminished Agalloch is amazing.
Check out Vargrav and Ancestral Shadows. Agolloch is phenomenal. Sargeist hell yeah \m/
Not one American black metal band!
Lets not forget san frans VON!
@FreeMarketBarbarian are you serious? Look them up. They influenced the second wave of bm.
@FreeMarketBarbarian they were the end of the first wave but a better choice would've been NME and satan's host
The return is bathorys most black metal album IMO
true, its because Quorthon basically kept going with debut bathory's punky energy but created a much more depressive, harsh and evil atmosphere via production sound and vocal style.
thats what makes The return the black metal bathory album truest to the genre.
Sabbat is my first recommendation. Then Venom and early Sodom. \m/
Thanks for the recommendations 🤘🏻
Man u nailed it
Pressed like as soon as you said first wave beat second wave in riffs. Nice bro.
Glad to see in the Sign of Evil and December moon.
Hey love the 2nd wave as much as the next guy but for me the first wave smokes it! Poison ( Germany) Sodom’s and Destruction’s first albums! Parabellum!!!! From Columbia! Vulcano’s debut is one of the best South America has to offer! Good call there! As well Pentagram from Chile!
Great stuff bro!!
Excellent
I always come back to this vid to introduce my friends to black metal
Nice video/list Wyatt. Missed the Mystifier mention, but ok :/
In the sign of evil was my gateway from thrash to black metal. I picked it up blindly being already a fan of Agent Orange and absolutely fell in love. From there, I got into Hellhammer, Vulcano, early Sepultura and kept digging deeper.
First two Kreator albums are also quite influential, especially Endless Pain sounds very blackened Thrash.
Mortuary Drape “Into the Drape” and Bulldozer “IX” are a HUGE deal
Man I love Master's Hammer - Ritual
Great list! Here's another early BM band: Moonspell. They started as a black/ folk metal band and today they evolved into dark/ Gothic metal. Have a look at the albums under satanae and wolfheart.
Destruction's first two releases (E,Ps.) Rudimentary? Maybe, but glorious noise. I'll never forget the first time I head Sentence Of Death back in the day.
First wave BM does not get enough recognition
Nice first wave black metal album form Czech is Törr - Witchhammer - 1987.
Fact: Bathory's best album is Blood Fire Death... no debate.
Nice concept... woulda dug a mention of NME, Show No Mercy, Morbid Visions (do people not realize that Wagner formed Sarcofago AFTER he left Sepultura?), for that matter the first shit from Dorsal Atlantica, Parabellum/Blasfemia (probably the most important bands out of Colombia and essential to anyone digging into black metal's past). And not even a passing mention of Samael's Worship Him or their demos... for shame Wyatt ;)
Eric Bauer Under The Sign is way better than Blood Fire And Death, but I prefer the First one over both
NikNakSukMaCak 21 yes
Yeah Blood Fire Death is a fucking masterpiece.
5:30 you made that riff sound like a banjo run
Morbid! 😁🔥
Desert is my favourite speed metal song \m/, desert-bulldozer
Sarcofago is first wave and there probably one of the bands to really influence second wave. Volcano was probably the first from Central America and South America. I feel like really south and Central America really created the sound for black metal that ppl did in the second wave
Sathanas (PA), Poison (Ger), and Death Yell(Chile) to name a few. Solid list.
These bands are a mix of different styles, and sounds, a little bit of everything from heavy metal, punk, thrash, and death metal. No doubt these bands paved the way for what would become black metal. Elements of some of these bands were picked up later by other bands, but the true black metal sound that we know of today was established in norway. But, I still love all the early stuff because they had different styles and they didn't all sound like copy cats, and all the early stuff wasn't held back by a certain label, it was just extreme metal of all sorts.
Could have mentioned the NME, the German Poison and the Necrovore demo
Sodom has such tasty riffs.
my favourites are venom hellhammer Celtic frost and more
Blood upon the altar is part of the first wave which is pretty interesting to be honest.
Cant forget the chaotic australian early black/death/thrash scene either! Bands like sadistik exekution starting war metal, great bands like slaughter lord, martire, corpse molestation/bestial warlust, Destruktor and so on
blasphemys demo pioneered war metal id argue
Sadistik Exekution, in truth, is a death metal band that is highly influenced by punk and old school bm, and also black sabbath.
1st wave BM band members basically were proper metal heads, where as 2nd wave (Norse stuff) consisted mainly of Gothic hand jobs who formed bands :-D
Why Not Envenom instead of Evoke?
Hello wyatt, we need part 2! 1st wave has so much to talk about, for example, what the fuck did black metal mean in the mid n late 80's?
I feel like at some point I need to revisit the topic
@@wyattxhim hell yea, godspeed
Also Goatlord (demos and both albums), Beherit (demos and Drawing Down the Moon), Blasphemy (Gods of War), and Varathron (His Majesty at the Swamp). If you want to go to the roots of the first wave in the late 70s/early 80s, then NWOBHM bands like Angelwitch, Witchfynde, Pagan Altar, and Cloven Hoof are your ticket!
Tormentor, fuck yeah!
Interesting concept for a video if you ever see any magazines from the 80's sitting probably at the back of a record store if they have any sections for tape trading & penpals anyone back in the day would be citing they were into Black Metal would be listing Venom Bathory Celtic Frost Hellhammer Mercyful Fate King Diamond Sabbat Bulldozer & early Kreator & Sodom as the band's they were into ever if you come across copies of Metal Forces magazine like I did a couple of years ago pick them up for the Penbangers tape trading & penpals section they actually make a fascinating time capsule read along with Mega Metal Kerrang! & Kerrang! Kontacts the latter was purely for such ads ....
You didn't mention Samael 'Worship Him' or 'Blood Ritual', those first two albums are so riff heavy.
MrLando0 both 2nd wave
@@mazeoftorment805 Thought that might be, but Worship Him came out in '91, same year as Master's Hammer Ritual. So isn't that 2nd wave?
I'm sure these will ruffle some purist feathers, actually i hope they do. hahaha!
Destruction - Sentence of Death EP
Wolfpack - Total Head Removal
Exterminator - Total Extermination
Poison - Further Down into the Abyss (Comp)
Necrodeath - Into the Macabre
Oh yeah and UK Sabbat did much for Second and even Third Wave Black Metal and they were just a Thrash band.
What is the name of the album at 1:17?
Ved Buens Ende "written in waters"
First wave BM would always be my sweetheart because of all the directions it can go. Not to say 2nd wave BM can't go places. Quite the opposite. But with 1st wave its even crazier. I keep seeing many early first wave acts (being highly regarded by BM fans) being referred to as death metal, thrash, punk like its part of one genre. To me, it says how versatile it is despite the blackened feel.
I like the first wave A LOT more than second wave
Not too edgy or takes itself too serious
And the playing and production i feel like was better
It was gritty, ambient bad in a good way imo and actually brutal and evil
With 2nd wave i gotta be honest is kinda annoying to listen too
And in general i feel like the 2nd wave was a lot more about the bands themselves or the controversy not too much about the music
It’s like the actual music is overshadowed by the production and band and everything surrounding it.
I don’t want it to be mainstream popular or good on a level like thrash or death
I just want brutal heavy riffs with brutal evil singing that isn’t just death metal growls or screeching
Bathory was cool but nowadays it’s overdone
I know it’s supposed to be extreme but the 1st wave was actually does imo do that in a great way
Aldo i love the Rock ‘N’ Roll/Speed Metal playing approach Venom has, its awesome as hell
Their singing also was really cool
Cronos has a awesome as hell voice we need more speed metal like deep rough voices in black metal.
I honestly thought "Root" was pretty well known. My bad I guess?
Also, talking about first wave bm, no one seems to ever mention "Kat" from Poland.
Ni mention of Slayee..snm was an 80's BM album
I would add Messiah - "Ëxtreme cold weather" 1987
Yeah that album is pretty raw.
Poison from Germany is cited all the time. A very awesome band.
And which is the american poison
Vulcano sounds a bit closer to Death Metal than BM imo, nice video btw
Pre-Persecution Mania Sodom was really primitive and evil.
Yes but it was thrash metal at the core
as much as i dont like loudwire, i must give them credit for my music taste today. my black metal interest started with seeing a loudwire video with emperor in it. i started off on emperor and moved on from that
first wave of kuroi tetsu :D, Brack Metar i mean
I'm not a bm nerd, but I love it and I thank you for making me discover new music :)
Would you consider Rotting Christ's first three albums as a continuation of 1st Wave Black Metal, rather than 2nd Wave Black Metal?
Man you didnt mention Supultura: Bestial Devestation/Morbid Visions, Samael: Worship Him, nor Mercyful Fate self title.
The point of this video isn’t to name every single band but more of a way to get the conversation started with the topic
@@wyattxhim No but those three moderately sized names in the genre so it's weird that you either didn't know about them or just aren't fans of them. Though fittingly you did do what you set out to do since we're talking about black metal bands so good job on that.
@@MegaDoom89 it’s not that I’m not fans of them but more of why waste my time in a video explaining stuff people already know
I mean I did say I wanted to talk about the “unsung heroes” of the 1st wave
@@wyattxhim Tormentor, Sodom and Volcano are pretty well known on the web i've found, difference of experiences i guess.
I would have thought people would have said Mercyful Fate is one of their favorite first wave black metal band.
My favorite is Death SS (1977-1984, the original band) sort of a cross between proto-black and early doom
I was saddened to not see Mercyful Fate.
Definitely one if my favorites.
I'm sad merciful fate wasn't mentioned
No love for Mercyful Fate??!
Master Hammer's The Ritual its from 91'... I don't think is FWBM, well that's my personal opinion.
i must mention beherit!!!!
Beherit was more a second wave black metal since they released their demos and albums in the early 90ties when the second wave started, although it could be argued that oath of black blood harkens back to the 80ties with hellish soundscapes to the likes of Sargofago and Vulcano.
Imo the second album by master's hammer is better cause of the more experimental parts and the riffs are better
It's bathory
Bulldozer is one of my favorite first wave black metal bands, since we're also talking about the first wave sound, Sabbat is up there for me too.
I think Black Metals "Black Metal" is the best black metal of all black metal, imo.
Black metal.
I got into black metal from a gumball episode
Fantastic, first wave black metal is the best and anyone that disagrees is WRONG. Dirty sloppy satanic speed/thrash metal > most of the stuff that came out of Norway. Some other stuff I would add is Kat - 666, NME - Unholy Death, Slaughter Lord - Thrash 'Til Death, and Necrodeath - Into the Macabre.
Yeah when I try to explain why old school death metal and first wave black metal is so appealing to me, I just love the sloppy and raw sound. It's not time aligned and polished, it's perfect just the way it is. *RAW AND HEAVY* \M/
VERY FÜKK!!!!
Some of my favorite riffs may from the second wave on, but for me the first wave's "batting average" for riffs is much, much, much higher. Anyone who is a fan of riffs over the more atmospheric elements found in second wave and modern black metal could easily listen to nothing but first wave black metal and be just fine. It really is a shame how over looked first wave black metal is, and this is coming from someone who mostly listens to DSBM.
you look like kurt russell from big trouble little china
Chad Mearhoff lmao that’s a first to hear
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You saying first wave black metal is overshadowed by second wave black metal couldn't be any more true. Until recently I thought the second wave was the first wave.
What about "the other Mayhem", this one from Norway, and Thorns, also from Norway? Pretty influential first wave pioneers for the whole genre and their music is very good. I just bought "Thorns" by Thorns, but I also highly recommend taking a listen to Mayhem's "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" if you haven't already.
i prefere the first wave
As a BM fan I have never heard nor seen Volcano. Production and sound is perfect. I listened to Morbid Visons by Sepultura a lot when I found it as a kid and from what I read Volcano are also from Brazil. Black/Death Thrash done to perfection. Now, I am gonna be that guy. imo venom is not black metal. Their influence and impact on the future of black metal and even coining the term goes without question but by this logic would we consider Slayer's "Show No Mercy" black metal? I wouldn't, but to cronos anything satanic in nature is black metal. Venom popularized the term and back then I would understand using it in this way when there wasn't a solid definition of what black metal was, but black metal as we know it now was intentional, in the 80's the term was used more loosely. Bathory, to me anyway, was the first "trve black metal" project even though Quorthon pretty much stole riffs from Venom witch Varg later stole from Bathory lmao. This Debate is tired at this point, as stated in the video, but these are just the thoughts of a gay metal boy so take it as you will and tell me I am wrong because I may be. On a side note, Your videos kick ass and thanks for sharing these great bands!
16:33 Bulldozer better than Venom?!
BLASPHEMY
Fockin Venom 🤘🏻
@@putridabomination Almost anyone is better than Venom
>didnt mention celtic frost.
>wyattxcringe
>Talked about hellhammer
> Smokeyxmustofmissedit
Venom is not Black Metal.