Grand Belial's Tea wrote:
Soulside isn't 'good produced' by any stretch of the imagination. It's less necro than ABITNS, sure. But being better produced than that doesn't make it a 'good produced' album.
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But the core is more or less the same: Blast beats, cruel vocals, evil content, even the riffing is again like on earlier days.
This applies well here.
And I disagree with the rest, clearly.
Sardonic Wrath and Transilvanian Hunger are not as different as In The Nightside Eclipse and Prometheus, ffs, which could be a different band. GOTDT isn't that different from CATB, and there's a fuckload of difference between old Emperor and old Cradle, who were quite DM in the demo days.
It doesn't need to be TNBM to be BM, but if you want to call it 'True' Black Metal as opposed to Progressive or Jazzy or whateverthefuck then it needs to be pretty damn 'true' musically. Which (late) Dimmu, late Emperor, etc aren't.
And your last point made my head explode and makes me want to flame you. Comparing TH to St Anger is stupid! Crap-Thrash vs TNBM, atmosphere vs idiocity... where to begin?
1. Seriously, for a Death Metal album, for a metal album, for that time and for that band, Soulside Journey has IMO a great production. There are wors produced albums from that time from bands with much more higher budget.
2. Yes the albums are different, but that doesn't exclude that it's all Black Metal - EVEN ESPECIALLY IF YOU REALLY say that the current Darkthrone albums or Venom really are, because that is REALLY MUCH MUCH MORE different vom something like In the Nightside eclipse or Transilvanian Hunger than anything from Cradle of Filth or Dimmu Borgir.
3. To say it's as Black as it can get in metal, that doesn't imply that it's so called "True Norwegian Black Metal". But it's pitch black metal. Even if theres no tremolo riffing or something.
4. You guys will not see a joke, even if it hits you in the face.
wut?
