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I suppose you're right regarding the whole beautiful thing it just feels like its harder to find anything melodious in black metal than in other metal genres. But I guess theres bands like Eldamar and (of course) Summoning. I'm tempted to say Deafheaven but I find it difficult to regard them as being predominately black metal

I don't know, there's a lot of beauty in black metal, probably more than any other genre, it's just generally conjured more from the atmosphere it establishes than the melodic lines.

But even then, there's quite a bit of stuff that goes in a similar vein to this - Saor, Windir, Mistur, Winterfylleth, recent Panopticon, etc. (albeit less synth-y)

Album Rating: 5.0

the cascadian scene as well, wolves in the throne room etc.



i totally separate this from the other epic/folk bm. like there's the windir's and saor's and then there's the summoning's and caladan brood's on the other side

Yeah, they're definitely playing different sorts of styles, but just the fact that beauty in a lot of those bands come through the atmospherics and the melodies together, not just the atmospherics (as it would, I'd say, in something like Walknut or Vinterland)

Album Rating: 5.0

How did this get two negs?



As far as the beautiful thing in BM goes, i've found that 99% of the times I've found BM beautiful was because of the atmospheric part of the band. Windir is an oddity, his BM was completely different than what I've heard so far. Also, Vallendusk makes me feel positive when I listen to them (at least the first album) which is pretty rare in the BM world.



I was actually thinking about reviewing Caladan Brood but never got to doing it. The rating won't change though.