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Grim

Advantages: atmosphere, it's Black Metal
Disadvantages: songs all sound the same after a while

Darkthrone's Transilvanian Hunger is their 4th album, and last(until now) on the Peaceville label. In 1990, Darkthrone released their debut album, which was a total Death Metal record, but later opted to change sound and become Black Metal, influenced by ...

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Raw and Minimalist Norwegian Black Metal

Advantages: Very atmospheric, grows on the listener over multiple listens, excellent minimalism
Disadvantages: Will sound iinaccessable to the casual listener

Released back in 1994, Darkthrone's fourth full length 'Transylvianian Hunger' sees the band continue on the raw, lo-fi black metal trajectory travelled on their previous two albums, except this time the sound is even murkier and the riffs and drums more ...

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At The Gates Of Midian

Advantages: Complex music, great riffs, great male and female vocals
Disadvantages: Swearing, 1 pointless track

Band: Dani Filth- Vocals Paul Allender- Guitar Robin Eaglestone- Bass Martin Powell- Keyboards Gian Pyres- Guitar Adrian Erlandsson- Drums Cradle Of Filth formed in 1991, some people regard them as black metal, mostly their general tag is symp ...

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Midian of Filth

Advantages: Brutal extreme metal
Disadvantages: May be too extreme for some

"Midian" is the 4th studio album by British black metal band, Cradle of Filth. It was released in 2000 on Music For Nations and produced by John Fryer. The line-up for the album was Dani Filth (vocals), Paul Allender (guitar), Gian Pyres (guitar), Robin G ...

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Convention Hurled to the Black

Advantages: Very original metal music.
Disadvantages: Limited appeal

And so Spongly continues with his rabid support for one of the most reviled bands in the world, Cradle of Filth. Why, I hear you ask, do you support the work of this horrible, screechy and franly blasphemous bunch of wretches? Quite simply because they ha ...

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