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Wow! The tendency in recent years I’ve noticed in Black Metal around the world of becoming more and more experimental and complex has come to the point where it actually offers something new and refreshing in terms of abrassive sounds and musicianship. Not only musically but also thematically, finally there’s the opportunity of getting out of the stalleness of old black metal and leave behind its foundation in abstract and removed fantasy to ground it in a more material and political context that isn’t just derivative of the fascistic bullshit of the norwegians in the 90s. That was a really good listen, thanks for sharing!
Yeah truthfully I had never really gotten into black metal (sans Sunbather like everyone else) but there are a lot of cool avant garde black metal or black metal adjacent groups. I loved Liturgy’s newest record HAQQ if you haven’t checked it out and Portal is insane, although I don’t know if they’d really be considered black metal outside of their Ion album.