r/blackgaze

I know there’s no accounting for taste, but I find it extremely hard to imagine anyone who’s a fan of at least one blackened genre and is not a trve kvlt edgelord listening to this album and not feeling like their soul has been fed. It’s just that good.

Just found the band in the last few months. Working though the discog.
Wondering if I could get recommendations of more songs like:

I left a message for you
pink clouds
Shimmering in the March lowsun
August Flower

I love the “happy” Sadness songs 😊

Goes fast and hard, cool that someone uploaded it

Hello. Over the past few weeks, I've found myself immersed in a search that is lately exhausting me, as I am looking for a very particular sound. It all started when I began to reevaluate Sunn O))), and from there, I discovered Nadja's early albums. Since those discoveries, I've found several excellent bands, but somehow they don't quite meet the requirements of what I’m looking for. I'll try to describe it:

• I am looking for a sonic slowness that is glacial, as if making incredibly slow dark ambient but with doom and drone instrumentation.
• The vocals should be clean, not guttural or harsh. For example, I immensely enjoyed "I Shall Die Here" by The Body, but the screaming repels me.
• Corrupted also fascinated me musically, but it was all ruined when the vocalist started singing.
• Bismuth is relatively close to what I want, but they only have two albums.
• Nadja's early albums are almost exactly what I'm looking for, but their later albums are more melodic, with more conventional compositions.
• I liked Jesu's "Heart Ache", although the vocals don't fascinate me. I would like something more whispered and ethereal or something totally instrumental.
• Someone recommended Inoha when I mentioned my search for cleaner, ethereal vocals. It's not bad, but it's like listening to a heavy version of Lycia, and that's not what I'm looking for.
• Albums that I have liked and that have come somewhat close to what I'm looking for: KTL's first album; "Unavailing" by Bismuth; "Let the Earth Be Silent" by Fvnerals; "Ceremony of Stillness" by A-Sun Amissa; "Weighing Souls with Sand" by The Angelic Process (even though it hardly resembles the sound I'm looking for at all, it's a wonderful album). And above all, my favorite album to come out of this entire search: "Touched" by Nadja.

Apologies for the wall of text and the phrasing. English is not my first language, and I am also tired from staying up late the past few days listening to records. Any help will be eternally appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I’ve been stuck in a brutal university entrance exam grind here in Turkey for the past two years, but I finally got the score I wanted! Now that the weight is off my shoulders, I can finally dive into my dream: starting a music project. I’ve known for over a year that I want to make blackgaze.

I'm a guitarist, and last year I picked up an Ibanez AZES40 in Mint Green as my third guitar. The moment I saw it, it just gave me those pure Asunojokei - Island vibes, and it turned out to be an amazing fit for the atmospheric, bright-yet-heavy sound I want to capture. I've slowly built a small home studio setup, and this week I'm finally grabbing a MIDI keyboard to start the real learning and production process.

Long story short: as a young musician just starting out, what would be your absolute best advice? I don’t have any musician friends in my local circle, but I follow this sub daily. I'd love to hear your thoughts on production, songwriting, or just finding my own voice in the genre!

Thanks in advance!