u/ComprehensiveBar6339

For a while my favorite Unholy Trinity Album was A Blaze in the Northern Sky, and I still love that album.

However, Under a Funeral Moon and Transylvanian Hunger have grown on me so much. On a different note with a similar vein, Ildjarn's Strength & Anger has grown on me so much.

I want that minimalist, anti-melodic Black Metal. Think Strength and Anger I with the single note riff.

Recommendations?

Yada Yada Yada, Why is everybody and their mother seemingly putting on corpse paint as their instagram or tiktok pfps now. I understand you're a hardcore kid who also thinks BM is cool. I don't even think there is necessarily a problem with that, but the whole point of corpse paint is to perform a live show or to make album covers.

It feels cringe to say the least.

Thoughts on Corpse Paint? When is it appropriate in your opinion? When does it seek into cringe territory? Is it posing when core kids do it in your opinion?

I've never been to a BM show mostly because it isn't easy to find a performance of any Medium to Smaller sized Black Metal bands in my area of the United States. The last band that perform around here was Emperor.

This isn't to say Emperor isn't a Black Metal band, not worthy of seeing live, so on. However, I love a good deal and being able to see a small local artist plus support them

On another note, I will be in Europe for some time. I know there are a lot of show containing Medium to Smaller Black Metal Artists in Europe compared to the US.

Then this begs the questions, is Black Metal worth to see live?

What bands would you recommend to see live in Europe?

I've been listening to lots of Ildjarn to the point where the mixing in many other Black Metal albums I listen to now feels flat? I need more of the hazey and fuzzy atmosphere that Ildjarn has.

What are your favorite Lofi/Raw BM releases?
What are some newer releases that does this type of BM well?
Who's your favorite artist in the raw sound?