Judas Iscariot Retrospective 

I know it’s only an EP, but Dethroned, conquered and forgotten is really good too!

Dude, I love this band. Akhenanten kicks ass

I saw Judas Iscariots one and only live show in the US. One of only 2 period. Hung out with Akhenaten in his motel room. He had a side project called Weltmacht and gave me a cassette of it...great times.

entitled to opinions as everyone is to those who want to dispute being over rated or under rated Judas Iscariot as a project has had it's ups and downs like any other band. Black Metal being as stand offish as it is i always find it hilarious how fans get bent all out of shape when an artist doesn't pander to them. Im not speaking from a position of pretentious snobbery, i remember before the days of the internet in the good ol' "tape trading" days an American Black Metal scene was this next to non existent and the bands that were around were just as obscure, I remember PAXUXU,VON,Khisanth,Bloodstorm, Masochist (RIP) ABSU,Black Funeral, just off the top of my head (it's been a long time). When Judas Iscariot's demo came out iremember people having a mixed response to it, but the general consensus was that it was our (U.S.) version of a norwegian style black metal sound or in layman's terms the American Burzum or Darkthrone as stated in the video. U.S. Black Metal had a style of it's own which in myopinion was it's unique, and what i personally loved about it. In those days we supported bands because in most cases it was all we had access to and that was that. If bands were horrible enough they didn't last. I'm from New Jersey we had Krieg, Abazogorath, the rest was all thrash metal and death metal, it was a huge difference than what exists today. Judas Iscariot maybe over rated to people who are just discovering black metal now, or weren't around in the 90's but it is only because they have options to listen to something better and no nostalgia attached to it. These recordings stand as the foundation and a monument to the early days of American Black Metal.

Akhenaten of Judas Iscariot, Varg Vikernes of Burzum and Quorthon of Bathory inspire me to make black metal by playing all instruments

Akhenaton is pronounced (Ah-Ken-Ah-Ton).... Why was that hard to pronounce?

You can never take a person's opinion when they have a vocal fry

Akhenanten was considered The Heretic Pharoah of ancient Egypt

I have To Embrace the corpses bleeding on cd, I agree it’s definitely his best album and it’s awesome.

do leviathan or striborg soon please!

*1) Moonlight Butchery 2) embrace the corpses bleeding 3) Thy dyin light. .4).heaven in flames. 5) distant solitary*

The best BM band of USA

The fact that it sounds like early Darkthrone is EXACTLY why I like it so much! I can't find hardly anything that captures that sound. What Black Metal band captures that early, Transalvanian Hunger style sound, that you think is better?

Yeeeaaahh but where’s your discography?

He (Akhenaten) was forced to end the project because his father who was an Illinois politician was involved in some kind of scandal.

"Norwegic"? What the hell is that?

the project was ended amid a political scandal where Akhenaten's father, a judge in illinois made a large donation to a candidate for illinois attorney general in Akhenaten's name (andrew jay harris). the media got wind of this and started smearing him for being a nazi and all this other bullshit just because he is a black metal musician. some took his move to germany as a sign he really was a nazi but if you look at his master's thesis "The Transylvanian Saxons: An Analysis of Social Organization and Institutions" he is just very interested in germany. with a master's degree in sociology from northern illinois university i would not be surprised if he was a professor somewhere now. once in a while i try to find him but with no luck. possibly changed his real name

Downfall network do a retrospective of tsjuder

Just got informed that Akhenaten continued to make black metal music under the names Weltmacht (world power) and Seeds Of Hate in Germany, as he resides there at the moment. So I guess your wish is granted.

I like this band. It is true it is a bit uncreative. But is still in my top 10 USBM bands. But USBM mostly sucks. GBK and Leviathan are better.

Not a full album but imo the best from Judas Iscariot is DETHRONED,CONQUERED AND FORGOTTEN...

lol dude The Clear Moon is literally my favourite JI song ever how can you say it's boring... atmosphere so unique I never heard something like that anyahere else

Satanic Warmaster would be great!!!

Maybe it's because I've mostly only listened to Heaven In Flames and the song "In The Valley of Death I Am The King", but they don't sound like a Darkthrone ripoff to me. The album Heaven In Flames sounds more like Burzum or Emperor to me.

peste noire retrospective ?

Awesome! Any chance of you doing Horna or Abigor?

I cant believe buddy went on to limit hands on contact in kids hockey.

Last album was definitely their best and I hope they come out with some new shut too

I like HEAVEN IN FLAMES album the most. Just has that cold black metal sound that is what it's all about.

Miss you Brody, hope you come back one day

It took me a while to get into Judas Iscariot honestly. I honestly feel the same throughout all your album reviews. I did not like much of his earlier albums. I adore "Damned Below Judas", and a few other tracks off The Cold Earth Slept Below, but aside that, I found it to be a relatively boring and low-effort album, with drumming that sounded fatigued. My favorite albums are definitely his last two for sure, though; they are powerful, way better in terms of effort and production, and some sick fucking riffs and atmospheres to be found amongst them. The band does sound like Darkthrone worship, but honestly, I don't mind that, because I always was looking for other bands with that similar sound. I do also like how he has a pretty heavy Graveland sound in his later work as well.

I do love the riff in, The Wind Stands Silent.

Why do you hate instrumentals so much?

There is one more album from 2020 for obvious reason not mentioned in the video: Your Misery, My Triumph.

Keep doing these!!!

I like Judas Iscariot, but my two favorite USBM bands are Demoncy.and Inquisition. If you want to consider inquisition a US black metal band

dude, u should show some more understanding and respect for Judas IScariot! I LOVE the band, but do NOT over-worship, and Yes, it is Darkthrone child, but a very good one ! if u dont like Darkthrone style BM: why the hell talk shit about it? go to Emperor or Mayhem or even other great bands like ABIGOR from Austria! GOTTA LOVE THAT BAND TOO!

Classic black metal👍 Лайк не глядя.

Yes some songs are boring but the riffs are killer

i actually like the cold earth slept below i wish the 5th track and the 6th were better but still pretty good

Akhenaten is a pharaoh, not an Egyptian god. His name translates to "the servant of the god Aton" and was a pharaoh that tried to establish monotheism in Egypt and outcast polytheism by worshipping Ra, the god of the sun. He was also the father of Tutankhamun. His attempts weren't successful, as the priesthood and the people of Egypt resisted against him.

Well shit, I only ever listened to his last album and was really amazed by it. You sure take away ones joy 🤣

I appreciate your analysis. I used to really dog the older albums but u made me realize the new ones are on another level.

Seeing as how you clearly love your one man Black Metal projects, Wyrd Retrospective? Graveland Retrospective? Xasthur Retrospective? Leviathan Restrospective? ;) Apparently he ended the project because, to quote a snippet from a discussion about it on Encyclopaedia Metallum: "His father is a judge and a Democrat in Illinois. Some money had been donated to the Democratic party by him through his son's names. A Republican think tank / watch dog group caught wind of this and went public with Andy's bands and website tribute to Polish NSBM. His father insisted he take the website down and put an end to his "questionable" projects, for fear that it could cost him big in his profession. Andy moved to Germany and quit his bands for the benefit of his father's good name." Though he himself isn't a nazi, Judas Iscariot was signed up to No Colours Records, who sign up bands who do tend to have national socialist and pure aryan pagan views and beliefs.

Panopticon, Saor, Watain, Ruins Of Beverast retrospective? Somehow I never got to listening Judas Iscariot, gonna check em out after this retrospective in more detail. Edit: 6:05 well played

It’s hard to take keanu reeves here seriously.

It's pronounced Ah-ke- nah-ten, Big fan of Judas Iscariot for the vocals and the very nihilistic don't give a s#!t to do a second take. It just feels authentic AF and I would not say it sounds like old Darkthrone but hey to each his own. I can count how many people I know who are aware of this band on a single hand. Never hear anyone ever talk about the band outside the scene so outsiders really not catching this in their suggested list I would assume. So do you still feel this way 6 years later?

Burrrrggguuzzzumm hahaha

this was so poorly written

i like them a lot. and stop all those jokes about burzum,they are not fun anymore

"They're" really good...amazing....but they suck. ....lol ok.

def prefer Judas Iscariot over Darkthrone.

I never comment, dude ur either trolling or,,, hopefully i didnt warch long enough for u to say at the end "they (he) is next level" one of te best bm bands period, us or not 🙏

Not my favorite band or anything but I won't deny that Thy Dying Light is an excellent album

Judas Iscariot has nice riffs and the bad drumming on the first 4 albums has a charm. Judas Iscariot sounds to much like Darkthrone. But in his defence he was one of the first Darkthrone clones. I will suck a Darkthrone clone in the 90s some slack, but I would not do the same for one today.

Asking for a noob here...what is the intro song?

Quien mierda se atreve a poner dislike ?

Urgehal

6:03 lmfao🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Do a retrospective on a band I’ve heard of

BURRZUM!!!

Ock-Knot-tin

Spectral Dance is copy of Gorgoroth Possessed by Satan.

The thing with darkthrone tho, is you can’t enjoy the 2nd or 3rd albums (the ones people praise) bc they sound so f_kking terrible! So if there’s a band that is taking the greatness of dark throne and making it actually able to listen to and enjoy, sounds smart to me. But imo Judas doesn’t sound anything like darkthrone. The Moonlight Butchery ep is a masterpiece and it’s slower non thrashy BM.

I could give a shit if a band is creative or not tbh

0:20 Song ?

The best thing that he did was Arise My Lord and The Cold Earth Slept Below...

Dude, you compare like every band to darkthrone.

Fuck, these are some bad opinions.

BURHZUM!!! xD

Necrophobic?

Americans lol

That Burzum thing is annoying as all hell.

NSBM

Verdict: boring, long, nothing new just copies from old Burzum and Darkthrone

Oh My god ! I thought I was the only one who marks JI as overrated my whole life. this band is so boring and uninspired.

This guy doing the ranking has a really SHITTY opinion of this awesome band!