Dimmu Borgir's New Album, Abrahadabra Options

[Daniel Realpe]

Some of you might hate this type of stuff. I'm actually not a Black metal fan, but this band really stands out. Their latest album is just EPIC!

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[Lian Gerbino]

Not sure I completely agree with that. Black metal didn't come from Norway initially, just the Norwegian wave of black metal. And what the loyal black metalers would call true black metal I don't think has anything to do with the origin but more the sound and ideology. A lot of black metalers would call an album non-true black metal just for the production where Norwegian black metal was purposely made very unpolished and, well, to put it bluntly badly produced in all areas. Mostly so that they're music would remain underground and wouldn't appeal to a mainstream audience.

There aren't many true black metalers around these days and those who claimed to be are drifting away from it. Varg Vikernes I think remains within that mind set of doing exactly what you want to do and not thinking about what other people want. He's made this quite clear on a number of occasions. However I do think he thinks he's a bigger name then he actually is.

I do quite like a lot of black metal stuff. Gorgoroth and Immortal are probably my favourite black metal bands and I do like a lot of Emperor and early Burzum stuff. I do think the whole "kvlt black metal" stuff does get out of hand at times and one band trying to be more extreme than the next also gets a bit silly

I think you are saying that Venom or Angel witch was one of the first black metal bands so, since they are from UK, black metal did not come from Norway.
I think that could be an origin, not the movement itself. so, from my point of view, the style begins after the movement or with the movement but never before it.
I mean per example, if Heavy Metal comes from Punk, heavy metal bands started to play the style once it was created or at the same time.
now about the "true": I completely agree with you about the sound and to keep it underground, and I think I say "True" as you say Norwegian Black Metal. you surely has heard Varg or Ihsahn say: "the only true black metal comes from norway" LOL, as I said above, it has no sense!

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