#what i really liked abt that aesthetic is how it focused kind of on cults and manipulation in such high society academic circles

[twunkzilla]

Ugh I remember dark academia when it like first started between 5 Tumblr blogs like I saw a post where some intrigued anon was like omg what are some dark academic foods and the person was like ummm black coffee. toast with nothing on it. cocaine LMAO like people got so fucking weird about it like they do with everything

[ardl]

yo ardl I’m trying to get back into metal in general and you are top metal poster. Would you drop like a top 5 black metal albums to check out? no pressure or rush

ye i can do that, im usually more biased towards proggy black metal these days but theres some rough shit i still like so itll be a bit of both kinds.

ulver - nattens madrigal, this is one of my favorites to come out of the 90s. the riffs are gas the sound is nasty real cult shit.

bathory - under the sign of the black mark, fuckin classic. near perfect album. like the blueprint for early black metal afaik. blazin riffs real raw.

for some more modern black metal bands, batushka - litourgiya, real real real good stuff goin on in this one. it takes a lot from eastern orthodox christianity aesthetically and really runs w/ it in a neat way. got some orthodox chants and hot damn its sick as fuck. like holy shit it goes so fucking hard.

panopticon - kentucky, coal minin appalachian folk inspired black metal, black metal & pagan inspired folk music fusions are pretty common and theres some groups that have done it real well[agalloch is probably the most well known of them?], but workin songs & black metal isnt somethin ive seen a ton of. the structure of the album is a bit typical of modern proggy black metal, soft song harsh song repeat, but the spoken word sections hold it together and tie the softer folkier parts into the harsh sections thematically.

bosse-de-nage - III, actually kind of interesting lyrics & structure of their delivery, which is weird for a black metal project. another more progressive black metal band, it takes some cues from post metal as far as structure of the songs & like the dynamic contour of the songs as a whole. their whole discog is like laser focused on like exactly what i like in harsh music.

honorable mentions: agalloch - pale folklore, real good. kinda goofy folky type of thing. fuckin loved this album in high school but it doesnt hit like it used to, probably bc of how many times i listened to it. ashes against the grain is also real good but not rly black metal.

amesouers - self titled, real good another blackgazey thing but not super black metally. neige from alcests side project but i like it more than most of alcest. alcest pretty much started blackgaze iirc?

thurm - self titled, real good, havent listened to it enough to say a ton. some type of blackened death or somethin idk its real fuckin good.

last one, feminazghul - no dawn for men. it has an accordion. and a violin. folky for sure. pretty new to me so i dont have much to say abt it.