A Posers Guide to First Wave Black Metal 

Agreed

Black n roll is a close 2nd in my opinion

Inarguably.

Hell yeah, War and fwbm is def the best metal genres ever created

Check out these bands: Bonjour Tristesse, Nyktalgia, Lyrnix, Tunes of Despair, Lost Inside, Bethlehem, Mesatyhim, Advent Sorrow, Opera IX

Babushka is not BM, if you haven't heard Master's Hammer you haven't heard BM.

@@CountNazgul93 Now you have me curious; how would you categorise them? Thank you for the rec as well, loving the Master's Hammer

I appreciate it man!!!

Honestly the beauty of metal is how many subgenres coexisted at the same time and yet each one feels like it's in its own pocket of time. I won't lie, hair metal is a guilty pleasure, but as a whole I love being able to switch to another genre when the vibe changes. Sometimes I don't wanna feel just angry when listening to metal lol.

I will literally never forgive myself considering Bathory is one of my top 10 😭😭😭

I wont lie, im surprised I dont get extremely early Tom Araya often but to be fair my image of him is also the wholesome bearded grandpa

@@TheSexyAsianGuy Oh, yeah really i completely agree. By the way, the video is awesome, keep doing shit like this, it’s really interesting, even for a person who has been in the genre for more than 5 years, I like your presentation and narration.

Another classic

Ik I pointed out the mistake when jt transitioned to UTSOTBM, I was so pissed when I realized I made the mistake in editing 😭😭😭

@@TheSexyAsianGuy Nah it's fine dude, just got a lil surprised for a second 🙂

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It is.

Im pretty sure its also widely considered as such, it just escaped my mind writing out this video

Hell Awaits is more proto Death Metal

To me "Haunting The Chapel" and "Hell Awaits" are their most Black-Metal-ish records. That phase ended with "Reign In Blood" and its strong Hardcore Punk influences.

Its not, Candlemass is a Doom Metal band and Doom Metal is a whole other can of worms. Though as a fun fact, Candlemass was one of the influences of the 2nd wave of BM.

Sounds like an excessively scrupulous trip, tho it's kinda legit. Yet, I wouldn't put Mayhem (with all my respect towards them) into the ranks of Bathory and Hellhammer. While the latter did copy Venom, the former copied Venom AND Bathory/HH/CF. Kinda different generation, really. They've got their names from HH song names too.

​​@@yuriyanov3217Mayhem, Hellhammer, Bathory are all the same generation. The first formation of Mayhem was in 1984 under the name "Musta", Hellhammer formed in 1982, Bathory formed in 1983. Mayhem got their name from the Venom track titled; "Mayhem Without Mercy", which was released in 1981. On the first Mayhem demo they even covered the song "Black Metal" by Venom. Hellhammer couldn't have gotten their name from Bathory, simply because Hellhammer formed a whole year prior than Bathory. It's widely known that Bathory ripped Venom off entirely, with Hellhammer, they were influenced by punk as well, bands like: GBH, Tom Warrior said that Hellhammer was an attempt to copy Venom's "punk infused metal". While Quorthorn categorically denied he was influenced by Venom, he was later found out to be a pathological liar, because he also categorically denied who his father was, lied about that too. We can all agree that Bathory is a Venom clone, blood in, blood out. Without Venom, there would be no Black Metal, they are the first wave, they coined the term. The band's who came after Venom are second wave, because they all copied and were influenced by Venom, including Mayhem, Hellhammer, Bathory. It's written all over prominent archives, Wikipedia pages, nobody has denied this as the truth. Except Quorthorn but, fvk him and his attitude. .

@@Australian_Viking not sure why have you unloaded those facts unto me, as i already know them and have written my comment keeping them in mind. Regarding the names - I stated, that it was Mayhem, who took a lot from HH, including some of their names in mark ii line up. This and the fact that Mayhem covered HH/CF songs make me insist that Mayhem belongs to the 3rd wave (in a categorization, we share in this thread), rather than the 2nd. And they got to make the real start of the BM sound as we know it today in the late 80s.

I don't think you can call it a "wave" if it is just one band playing the style (or using the term). There HAVE to be other groups copying it or at least being ispired by the band who invented that style to create what one could call a wave in the first place. And if it wasn't for Norwegian Black Metal and its popularity we wouldn't even talk about waves at all. As that was really the first time a seperate Black Metal scene existed. Before that, many "first wave" bands were sometimes called Black, Thrash, Speed, Power or even Death Metal. Or they made up their own name like Sodom did with Witching Metal. So, "First Wave Black Metal" is really just a way of grouping together different '80s bands that a) were inspired by Venom, b) had satanic lyrics and c) influenced '90s Black Metal. I remember how, back in the day, bands like Bathory or Bulldozer were sometimes described as "a poor man's Venom" by the press ("Venom für Arme" in German).

#1 poser frfr

Its almost as if thats the purpose

@@TheSexyAsianGuy alright poser keep on living your poser life.

@@TheSexyAsianGuy keep on living your poser life you poser.