Marduk, Lunar Aurora, Ceremonial Castings, Inquisition, Dark Funeral, Varathron, etc... Some of these bands fall into the symphonic black metal category though.
Urgehal, 1349, Watain, Carpathian Forest, Marduk
There are so many! Classics are; Venom, Bathory, Celtic Frost. Norwegian; Emperor, Darkthrone, Mayhem, Immortal, Burzum, Urgehal, Carpathian Forest Gehenna. Swedish; Marduk, Dissection, Craft. Finnish; Horna, Sargeist, Behexen. Polish; Behemoth (early), Thunderbolt. These are the more well known bands. There are plenty of great underground bands - too many to mention here, but that should get you started. I've omitted bands like Dimmu Borgir and Cradle of Filth as everybody knows these and its debatable as to whether their music best reprsents the name Black Metal, however they have done alot in bringing the genre to main stream conciousness. Hope this helps. I also agree with the sleep..; Satyricon and Ulver are/were great bands. m/
It depends what wave black metal you want to listen to. first wave black metal , like Ulver Manes and Fleurety Are all norweigan black metal bands that influenced what you hear today like Carpathian forest ( i recommend ) Immortal Bathory Darkthrone Marduk It all depends what style you like, Dimmu i don't consider black metal ,.. they are more.. er.. symphonic sellout hair metal HellHammer could never perform live the double bass that they record.. .. as with Cradle, they are becoming mainstream, can't perform live, and every second emo you look at has a CoF tshirt on.. OLD sayricon, before they went to roadrunner records is great black metal. anything from Dark Medieval Times, The Shadowthrone, is good, i mean you can hear them decline..just look at these two album names, before they went to roadrunner. You dont even have to hear the music before you can tell songs from Rebel Extravaganza and Volcano will sound good to the ears of every teeny emo ***** there is out there. It's all up to your taste though, those 5 bands i named above i think are my top 5 black metal bands today, .. so with that, and some old satyricon.. You should have yourself some good listning. Goodluck !
