tidfall - circular supremacy odium - the sad realm of the stars alghazanth - thy aeons envenomed sanity kråke - conquering death and oceans - the dynamic gallery... old man's child - the pagan prosperity so many more ❤️
Cradle are so unique (despite being unfairly loathed) that they are the perfect gateway to extreme metal in general. In the nighside eclipse is one of my all time favourites. Looking forward to checking out some of the others on this list. Great series
Master's Hammer is worth mentioning as they were maybe the first band to play symphonic black metal? Their album "Jilemnicky okultista" came out in 1992 and is awesome IMO. Almost as good as the debut "Ritual", which Fenriz himself described as "the first Norwegian black metal album, although they are from the Czech Republic". Such an important and underrated band, I don't understand why so few people talk about them.
Anorexia Nervosa - Drudenhaus, New Obscurantis Order, Redemption Process Abigor - Nachthymnen (...from the Twilight Kingdom), Supreme Immortal Art, Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook) Odium - The Sad Realm of Stars Mystic Circle - Infernal Satanic Verses, Mystic Circle Agathodaimon - Blacken the Angel, Chapter III Dismal Euphony - Soria Moria Slott, Autumn Leaves - The Rebellion of Tides ...and Oceans - The Dynamic Gallery of Thoughts Thyrane - Symphonies of Infernality Astarte - Quod Superius Sicut Inferius Antestor - The Forsaken Stormlord - Supreme Art of War Old Man's Child - The Pagan Prosperity, In Defiance of Existence Theatres des Vampires - The Vampire Chronicles, Bloody Lunatic Asylum Darzamat - In the Flames of Black Art, In the Opium of Black Veil Diabolical Masquerade - Nightwork Morgul - Parody of the Mass, The Horror Grandeur Bishop of Hexen - The Nightmarish Compositions
Hecate Enthroned - Ths Slaughter of Innocence, A Requiem for the Mighty Agathodaimon - Blacken the Angel Seth - Les Blessures de l' Ames Ancient Ceremony - Under Moonlight we Kiss ...And Oceans - The Dynamic Gallery of Thoughts Ancient - The Cainian Chronicle Siebenburgen - Delictum
An album that is rather forgotten - "My Guardian Anger" by Lux Occulta (1999), it's interesting because they really did something original there. In my opinion it is as good as those classic scandinavian or greek sympho-black albums.
Great list, Questy! As a personal reccomendation i would add Aeons Of Magick by the Portuguese Black Metal band Sirius, great space themed album with great use of synths and keyboards to create an outer universe atmosphere. One of the first albums one can consider to be "Cosmic" Black Metal so i think you'll like it
9.Lord Belial - Enter the moonlight gates 8. God Detroned- Lair of the white worm 7. Cradle of Filth - Midan (Why because kickass voice actor Doug Bradley is on the album do haunting incantations as Pinhead of the Hellraiser movies ?) 6. Moonspell-The Butterfly EX 5. Byzantine- And they take up serpents 4. November's Doom- Into night's Requiem Infernal 3. Dimmu Borgnir Cd sampler with 3 songs Including The great Apocalypse 2. Tne Breathing Process- In waking Divitity 1. Witchery- Don't fear the Reaper
Excellent list, although I would say Hecate are from Wales, not England, as they were formed in my home town of Wrexham, and members are still based here. But apart from that I'm with you with the choice of Hecate album, and the cradle onethe . Newer bands, I would go for the latest by Seth and Stormkeep. Cheers.
I always preferred Dimmu Spiritual Black Dimensions album - but most of their stuff is great. Tough choice between Cradles Dusk and her Embrace or Cruelty - both amazing albums love them both equally but if I was at a push it would be Dusk for me - funeral in Carpathia is just amazing lol Anything by Emperor up to Anthems - post Anthems is a bit meh for me lol. Bloody hell Bal Sagoth that's a name you don't hear much now lol the King's of the long convoluted song titles lol. Odium who only did one album are pretty good
If you like music like this you might also like Imperial Circus Dead Decadence as well, with their 2022 full length Closest thing to the bands listed here would be Bal Sagoth, bordering on power metal at times, and I would say ICDD would be a Japanese Bal Sagoth if they kept the direction they had during their 2011 full length
