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Willgregg10
It’s too short for the style it’s going for and only 4 songs? Filosofem can blow this out of the water.
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Willgregg10
I would too. I’m stupid for thinking filosofem is better. I’ve heard hvis almost as much if not more and it’s far more consistent.
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Beowolf1331
Filosofem has better songs at the start but this album is perfect and I would still choose it if I could only listen to 1 black metal album for the rest of my life
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StraightOuttaFi
This is the greatest black metal record ever made. The feeling is just out of this world
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VincenzoAureo
Best black metal album and cover ever, only contender for as good is Bathory's s/t
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StupidGenius
One of my favourite patches on my gig bag, even if I don't listen to a lot of Burzum.
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R136a1
Piggybacking off of MisterJunior, I regard this album as the best black metal has to offer, not only Burzum's finest work. Sound, sequence, timing...it's all there to take you to that "snow-covered forest at the top of the world with only the moonlight to keep you company" that MisterJunior talks about below. The smooth, fluid motion and the bleak hopefulness of this album are unrivaled.
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MisterJunior
A real masterwork. I love the debut and Det som engang var but I think this one and Filosofem really tapped into something deeper and more powerful and at times beautiful as well. The first two were and are GREAT straight-up Black Metal records but if they had a fault it's that they were basically just taking the sound Bathory had created and running with it; the next two were the first of their kind. I hate to use the term "Atmospheric Black Metal" since so much of the music made under that tag has been terrible in the past 15-20 years, but that's what this and Filosofem have in spades: that cold, ethereal, dark atmosphere that makes you feel like you're alone in a snow-covered forest at the top of the world with only the moonlight to keep you company. Wonderful stuff.
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MrDissection
The birth of atmospheric black metal. Of all the early Norwegian BM records, this is the pinnacle of creativity and musical power. [2]
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Gagoterapia
Music is good, but the artwork is amazing. Theodor Kittelsen was an excellent illustrator.
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octopuss22
A masterpiece. You have three undisputed black metal classics, mixed with the lovely ambient "Tomhet" and you have one of black metal's finest works. And the cover is a work of genius, it fits perfect to the atmosphere of the album.
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backslashh
The birth of atmospheric black metal. Of all the early Norwegian BM records, this is the pinnacle of creativity and musical power.
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