No, this isn't another stupid survey topic where you can name what's in your CD player now and pretend it's exceptional. This is a list of -- according to one metal think tank -- the best art produced by underground death metal and black metal genres. Feel free to bitch, but we're not including your friend's CD-R band or that grindcore-with-a-flute failure you purchased last week. Each album in this listing is available for download at the links below. BEST OF BLACK METAL 1. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss 2. Immortal - Pure Holocaust 3. Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse 4. Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger 5. Graveland - The Celtic Winter 6. Bathory - Blood, Fire, Death 7. Ildjarn - Det Frysende Nordariket 8. Summoning - Dol Guldur 9. Gorgoroth - Antichrist 10. Beherit - Electric Doom Synthesis 11. Enslaved - Vikinglgr Veldi 12. Havohej - Dethrone the Son of God 13. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas 14. Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun 15. Mutiilation - Remains of a Dead, Ruined, Cursed Soul Best of Black Metal MP3s BEST OF DEATH METAL 1. Massacra - Final Holocaust 2. Deicide - Legion 3. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick 4. Therion - Beyond Sanctorum 5. Sepultura - Morbid Visions 6. Incantation - Onward to Golgotha 7. Morpheus Descends - Ritual of Infinity 8. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence 9. Obituary - Cause of Death 10. Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten 11. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence 12. Dismember - Like an Ever-Flowing Stream 13. Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus 14. At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours 15. Demilich - Nespithe 16. Asphyx - The Rack Best of Death Metal MP3s
i highly recommend "kingdom of dis"...a small studio project operating in mesa, arizona. some friends of mine are in this band, and it is probably the most professional sounding unsigned band i have ever heard. check it out on myspace (no, im not advertising.)
How is Emperor or Immortal underground, they're one of the most popular and best metal bands ever, every metal child knows them. p.s. Ildjarn "Forest poetry" album should be in the list.
honestly i feel like on the death metal list they should change the at the gates record to slaughter of the soul, and maybe throw cannibal corpse - butchered at birth on there for having ushered in the whole era of american death metal. other than that not a bad list.
charles, i always saw "the bleeding" as THE definitive album of cannibal corpse. faaar more technical than "butchered at birth", in my opinion. i admit, i am biased though. "the bleeding" was the album where alex webster's presence was finally moved into the forefront of the actual sound. just my opinion though Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! "butchered" was the more groundbreaking album in america, i admit.
yeah, i dont disagree with you, it might just be that butchered at birth was when i really got interested in them, and i always forget about a lot of the other stuff they did. plus butchered is the one that i think probably had the greater influence on bands playing death metal today, even if the bleeding was more tech.
when i was xmas shopping in antwerp this last year, i saw a deicide skateboard in a kids toy store. cracked me up. *hang the bitch, on the cross* heh do an olly dude!
Oh, the shame. We knew it was coming though. Almost all metal bands sell out (exceptions: Burzum, Havohej, Beherit and all that broke up early).
Absolutely awsome band: Therion I was happy to see them on the list. Similar bands I recommened: Nightwish After Forever Lacuna Coil Blind Guardian
blind guardian for sure!!! one of my fondest adolescent memories is going to an amusement park, dropping acid and slapping on a blind guardian cd while whipping through the air on a rollercoaster!! nightwish? um...nah ill pass Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Very good list, I must say, although not underground at all. I was kind of hoping for a lot of stuff I hadn't already heard
I can't tell which is a group name and which is an album name. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! - N
i have lost all faith in humanity, today at school i asked someone what there favourite metal is and they said...wait for it....TRIVIUM for fucks sake
Haven't heard. -------- btw - One of Latvia's best (black) metal bands URSKUMUG released their second cd today. Here's one song from it: http://www.urskumug.lv/files/Urskumug - 07 - Am Nodr.mp3 Homepage: http://www.urskumug.lv/