Nord'n'commander - Sacred Spear Aftersounds

Music that will make you forget your friends, forget your enemies and embrace that universal constant that is molecularly bound to our very being. That gooey epigenetic sheen called LOVE>
I honestly don't know why those fuckers are still listening to MyMorningJacket or Mumford and his Sons when there is THIS out there! Definitely needs to be re-issued by Hekaloth label.

Sacred Spears

Bestial Summoning - Sodomistic Rituals Demo '92

One of the originators...a classick not just of Dutch black metal, but of black metal as a whole. Raw, primal....the total package.

Sodomisticism

Neglektum - Beyond The Frozen Mist

Raw and true.

Beyond The Frozen Mist

Ululate - We Are Going To Eat You!!!

Yeah, eat eat eat eat, eat it mutherfuckers!!!

Eat Me!!!

RALF Projekt III - Projekt: Kill

A lo-fi/no-fi descent into the deepest depths of depravity...go ahead and take a long stride into the abyss.

Projekt: Kill

Undor - s/t

Czech out this insane German black "metal". Very much in the vein of the last RALF Projekt (vox-wise at least).

Undo(r)

Carpe Noctem - Dark Days Of Winter

Here's a charming little tale

On Feb 20, 2008, Matthias Schoorman (aka Karathron Carpe Noctem's vocalist) strangled a long-time friend to death, chopped her head off with a machete and set her headless body on fire. Apparently while he was in the midst of all this he was documenting it in real time on an internet forum...you can check it out if you want.
Schoormann then crashed his car into oncoming traffic during a chase with authorities (the girl's severed head was later found in a bag in the car).

At any rate, Carpe Noctem's debut is a very enjoyable raw melodic black metal affair with absolutely insane vocals, of course I guess that goes without saying.

Seize The Night

Black Northern Reign!!!

This might just be my favorite new black metal (one-man) band. Raise that fucking axe!!

SVENDORRAIN

Ungod/Baxaxaxa split

A cult split if there ever was one. In a word RAW, so buckle up fuckers.

Raw is the Law

Old Pagan

Old Pagan are one helluva band, and prolific to boot...here's a few of my favorites from what should become a staple in your German black metal diet.

Menschenverachtung

Tecknotschtiklan

Thrash Black Metal Holokaust

Nuit Noire - The Gigantic Hideout

The return of Feeral Faerical tyranny from a skinny French dude with a truly whimsical sense of humor and knack for crafting catchy songs with downright awesome riffs.

The Gigantic Hideout

Rites Of Cleansing - Nemesis

Ain't nuthin' clean about this primitive raw feral smess.

Nemesis

Absurd - Facta Loquuntur

For anyone who read that Lords Of Chaos book, the band Absurd should ring a bell...they are the ones who wouldn't let a fellow classmate join their ranks, and then murdered him for good measure! Talk about adding insult to injury!! Nowadays, they would probably just leave a bunch of hate on his facebook page till he did himself in, ah the glories of the internet...but anyways, on to the music...Absurd's sound is sort of a love or hate type of deal; crudely recorded, out of tune (intentionally?), simple beyond belief, and often times more punk/folk/RAC than straight up metal. Honestly this sounds like a retarded Pogues cover band with a really grim production. But y'know what? That's exactly why I love it! These songs just have that "x" factor that elevates them from horrible to sublime (if not quite sublime, then at least enjoyable). Be it an epic vocal hook that will stay in your head for days (Eternal Winter) or a catchy riff that is pounded into oblivion. Listening to this again, I'm very much reminded of last year's excellent Misantropical Painforest album. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I'm sure these bastards wouldn't have it any other way.

Facta Loquuntur

Nargaroth – Rasluka Part II

Kanwulf seems to be a polarizing figure to black metal fans. I enjoy most of his work, but some of it is pretty lame (I'm especially thinking of the last few albums), but this Rasluka ep (curiously the II before the I) is his meisterpiece. The guitar tone is brilliant in the red, crumbling shards of glass raining down and shredding flesh. The riffs are everything that is depressive and melancholic and are brought home with a bullet thanks to that aggressive guitar tone. Includes a weird homage to the late great Bon Scott (Kanwulfie is all about paying homage to his heroes ie Black Metal ist Krieg)...so avant-garde it hoits.

Rasluka

RALF Projekt II - The Sloppy Feast

RALF returns with a vengeance...3 impromptus and 3 covers of Led Zeppelin, Dissection and Iron Maiden. It's been described as a "low-tech Siege's Even with much better vocals." Get ready for a real sloppy feast mutherfuckas!!

Sloppy Feast

Judas Iscariot - Heaven In Flames

One of the truest bastions of U.S. black metal perfection was Andrew Harris aka Akhenaten of Judas Iscariot. He may not have been the best musician, certainly not the best drummer, but he could pen some awesome songs. Raw, hateful, melancholic and at times even joyful. Not too many bands (let alone one man deals) can make a song as punishing as Before A Circle of Darkness then turn right around and blow everyone away with the dolorously-appregiated masterpiece From Hateful Visions...phenomenal.

Heaven In Flames

502 - Viral Deity

Today is Labor Day, a day when we all can kick back, sip a tall frosty cold one, and listen to some raw black metal!! 502 (named after the Marduk song I'm guessing) is raw no doubt, but it's also pretty horrible. In fact, I must admit that my posting this on Labor Day is a bit ironic because it is such a fucking chore to get through the whole album...Recorded in anno 2002 by Russ, Clint and Shauwan, Viral Deity is a Von/Ildjarn worshipping smess of the highest order. For those that persevere, a most wonderful prize awaits at the end. If you can stomach it all the way through, you will be rewarded with the most retarded cover of Blitzkrieg Bop ever!!
So inexcusably terrible that it's almost brilliant in it's awfulness...almost.

Viral Deity

Moriorr - Cholera

Idiosyncratic Czech thrash from '89 with a sometimes doomy-dissonant atmosphere and a vocalist that's a dead-ringer for Attila Csihar. Unique sounding to say the least!

Cholera

Master's Hammer - Finished Demo

Everyone knows about MH’s masterful full-lengths, but it’s their demos where the weirdness really shined. Finished is from ’88 and captures a band toying with thrash and black metal conventions and delivering something that is fucked and unpredictable. Outright primitive in execution, zaniness and evilness collide – the way it should be.

Finished

RALF Projekt - A Good Day To Be Human...

An all-out aural attak that transmogriphies Merzbow like non-rhythms into the punked out ferocity of a mid-80's Peruvian thrash band...the bar has been set.

A Good Day To Be Human...