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Abigor - As Astral Images Darken Reality

A more serious Abigor post. A great song from their most classic album. I'm sort of at a loss for words.

The founding member of Abigor, Peter Kubik, commit suicide on August 31 of 2024. He showed fantastic talent throughout his career. Abigor is well known for their consistency and for good reason.

R.I.P. Peter Kubik.

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Abigor - Battlestar Abigor

I'm going to do this band a great disservice by posting their most unpopular material. Why? Because I like it.

This album is a total mess. It sounds bad, some of the songs sound like they just sort of did it in one take and said fuck it. On some tracks from this record, the keyboards sound like they're coming from a speaker behind you. You can tell they were just fucking around and I really like the vibe this album has as a result.

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Root - Abaddon

This one goes out to my friend who showed me this record. We used to be in a band together, way back when we were kids. We probably would have loved this back then. Crazy black metal with that sort of "first wave" flair that Root was great for.

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Diabolical Masquerade - The Eerie Obzidian Circuz

Now this is a band I can see growing on me more and more. There's just something oddball about them. Really excellent symphonic black metal, maybe leaning a touch towards avant-garde.

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Norrhem - Lopussa

We love our melody.. don't we, folks? Well this is a lovely melodic black metal song if I've ever heard one. The instrumental buildup in the middle is particularly awesome.

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Sigh - Diabolic Suicide

This band took me absolute ages to get into. I just wasn't ready for the avant-garde nature of their black metal. I'm glad I kept trying, because this is absolutely excellent music and NOT merely for the reason that it's experimental. Sigh's gimmick is what draws you to the band, but you stay for the music and not the gimmick.

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Might start swapping my personal posts to my other blog. I kept them here to avoid the dude who stalks me on there, but I'm trying to realize that I can ignore that shit.

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Just had a small breakthrough. I worry too much about people being wrong about me. Maybe bordering on obsession. I need to let people think what they want about me. Who cares if they don't understand?

It's just kinda funny, because I don't actually care if people like me or not? I just don't want them to do it incorrectly. There are plenty of people on here who dislike me and I don't mind because they dislike me for a real reason and it's likely mutual. I only get stressed when it's a misunderstanding or a blatant misrepresentation like a certain someone is fond of doing.

That being said, I need to let it go. If people dislike me enough to believe a blatant misrepresentation of my beliefs, it's unlikely I can change their mind anyways.

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Agalloch - Bloodbirds

The vision achieved on this album is spectacular.

It's spectacular art.

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NunFuckRitual - In Bondage to the Serpent

I'm a simple man. I see Attila Csihar, I shut my ass up and listen. Cool blend of black and doom metals.

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Gorgoroth - Under the Pagan Megalith

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Lust Hag | Lust Hag

April 2024

Bandcamp

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Lord Belial - Lamia

Just some classic Swedish meloblack.

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Avail - The Grey Curtain of This World

One of the few DSBM projects I enjoy. Very good atmosphere.

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I just updated my metal 101 list. I cut a lot of the non-metal stuff and added more metal. Also nuked some older suggestions that I probably wouldn't suggest anymore.

Not all of the links link to something, because some of the bands I haven't blogged about.

101 bands and artists that I recommend

[Note: I made a page of recommended bands, but it seems that people on mobile are not able to view it. With that in mind, I’m making it into an actual post so that people on mobile can have access! Sorry for the long post.]

[Updated: November 17, 2024]

3 Inches Of Blood - Power Metal / Heavy Metal from Canada

Acid King - Stoner Doom Metal from USA

Agalloch - Atmospheric Black Metal / Post Metal from USA

Alice Cooper - Hard Rock from USA

Amon Amarth - Melodic Death Metal from Swedish

Anaal Nathrakh - Black Metal / Grindcore from UK

Angel Witch - NWOBHM from UK

Anvil - Heavy Metal from Canada

Bathory - Thrash Metal / Black Metal / Viking Metal from Sweden

Black Label Society - Southern Metal / Groove Metal from USA

Black Sabbath - Heavy Metal from UK

Blood Ceremony - Occult Rock from Canada

Blood Cult - Black ‘n’ Roll from USA

Blood Farmers - Doom Metal from USA

Blue Öyster Cult - Hard Rock from USA

Bongripper - Doom Metal / Sludge Metal from USA

Burzum - Black Metal from Norway

Candlemass - Epic Doom Metal from Sweden

Cathedral - Stoner Doom Metal from UK

Cirith Ungol - Heavy Metal / Doom Metal from USA

Count Raven - Doom Metal from Sweden

Danzig - Heavy Metal from USA

Darkthrone - Black Metal / Heavy Metal from Norway

Death - Technical Death Metal from USA

The Devil’s Blood - Occult Rock from Netherlands

Devin Townsend - Progressive Metal from Canada

Diamond Head - NWOBHM from UK

Dio - Heavy Metal from USA

Earth - Drone Metal / Post Rock from USA

Electric Wizard - Stoner Doom Metal from UK

Enslaved - Progressive Black Metal from Norway

Gamma Ray - Power Metal from Germany

Gorgoroth - Black Metal from Norway

Graveland - Black Metal from Poland

Hail - Blackened Death Metal from Finland

Heavy Load - Heavy Metal from Sweden

Hellion - Heavy Metal from USA

Helloween - Power Metal from Germany

High On Fire - Stoner Metal / Sludge Metal from USA

Hour Of 13 - Doom Metal from USA

Ice Dragon - Stoner Doom Metal / Psychedelic Rock from USA

Iced Earth - Thrash Metal / Power Metal from USA

Illimitable Dolor - Funeral Doom Metal from Australia

Immortal - Black Metal from Norway

In Flames - Melodic Death Metal from Sweden

Inquisition - Black Metal from Colombia

Iron Maiden - NWOBHM from UK

Judas Priest - Heavy Metal from UK

King Diamond - Heavy Metal from Denmark

Kiss - Hard Rock from USA

Kyuss - Stoner Metal from USA

Lust - Heavy Metal from France

Manilla Road - Power Metal / Heavy Metal from USA

Manowar - Power Metal / Heavy Metal from USA

Mayhem - Black Metal from Norway

Megadeth - Thrash Metal from USA

Mercyful Fate - Heavy Metal from Denmark

Metallica - Thrash Metal from USA

The Misfits - Horror Punk from USA

Mötley Crüe - Glam Metal from USA

Motörhead - Hard Rock / Heavy Metal from UK

My Dying Bride - Doom Metal from UK

Nargaroth - Black Metal from Germany

Nile - Technical Death Metal / Brutal Death Metal from USA

Overkill - Thrash Metal from USA

Ozzy Osbourne - Heavy Metal from UK

Pagan Altar - NWOBHM / Doom Metal from UK

Pantera - Groove Metal from USA

Pentagram - Doom Metal from USA

Rainbow - Hard Rock / Heavy Metal from UK

Reverend Bizarre - Doom Metal from Finland

Roky Erickson - Hard Rock from USA

Running Wild - Power Metal from Germany

Rush - Progressive Rock from Canada

Sabbat - Thrash Metal from UK

Saint Vitus - Doom Metal from USA

Scald - Epic Doom Metal from Russia

Seamount - Doom Metal from Germany

Seikima-II - Heavy Metal from Japan

Sigh - Avant-Garde Black Metal from Japan

Skepticism - Funeral Doom Metal from Finland

Sleep - Stoner Doom Metal from USA

Solstice - Epic Doom Metal from UK

Spiritus Mortis - Doom Metal from Finland

Strapping Young Lad - Industrial Metal from Canada

Suicidal Tendencies - Crossover Thrash from USA

Sunn O))) - Drone Metal from USA

System Of A Down - Alternative Metal from USA

Taake - Black Metal from Norway

Thin Lizzy - Celtic Rock / Hard Rock from Ireland

Tjolgtjar - Black ‘n’ Roll / Avant-Garde Metal / Progressive Metal from USA

Trouble - Doom Metal from USA

Type O Negative - Gothic Doom Metal from USA

Uriah Heep - Hard Rock from UK

Van Halen - Hard Rock from USA

Vektor - Technical Thrash Metal from USA

W.A.S.P. - Hard Rock / Heavy Metal from USA

Whom Gods Destroy - Heavy Metal / Hard Rock from Canada

Windir - Black Metal from Norway

Witchfinder General - NWOBHM / Doom Metal from UK

YOB - Stoner Doom Metal from USA

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Oh Mr. Walrus you are such a jokester, such a jester, such a yuckster, such a silly billy.

Bloody Keep - The Moon In The Sky That Gives Me Life

Super raw melodic black metal that almost sounds as if it's being played on toy instruments. It's hard to describe how this one sounds, but if the idea of almost cartoonishly melodic raw black metal sounds awesome to you, you need to check this out.