Top Ten Black Metal and Death Metal Bands Ever! 2007
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I just want to say how much I love King Diamond! Since the first time I heard him, It seemed to me to be like my favorite food or something. I am sure I am not the only one who feels this way. He is very popular and has been for many years. Sometimes you here a band and you say to yourself, �I have been missing out one this band all my life?� You feel jipped in life or something. It was like that when I first bought the Merciful Fate album the was recommended by Metal Maniacs Magazine in 1999 as the third best of the year. I did some cool art based on that album. Skull and hands rising from magma, wow! They where right on then when Metal Maniacs said it was the best. Then when I bought a demo album from Relapse Records or Metal Blade eBay, I forget, I found out King Diamond has been around since the 1980�s? Amazing! I think the album was called Black Rose. Then I think I was at the CD Warehouse in Plano, Texas and I found King Diamond is from and resides right down the road from me in Frisco Texas. So If you ever read this King Diamond, email me at radman_art@yahoo.com. Maybe we could hang out or something. Maybe we can race! I heard you have a Ferrari. I have a Ninja and would be please to wipe you in a race, just for fun bro. I am a fan of melody and entertainment in metal. I am a fan of all metal just about, but when it has melody and entertainment up front, like King Diamond, it quickly becomes my all time favorite! Also I believe the greatest black metal band I have ever heard is Absu! And guess what they are also abiding near where I live in Plano, Texas! Same goes for you all Absu please contact me. I am at my all time peak as far as my artistic abilities and would be proud to do some art for you all. I say you all meaning any of the band or it�s collaborators as I am sad they are no longer together. The art work on the Absu albums are amazing! I just want to say I do not advocate hate at all. If any of the bands I mention on this page advocate hate or hate groups, I hope they change. I believe in people�s power to change, this can only be done with the ability to care, to really care. I believe we are all equal and no one is better than any one else. In the words of the Beatles, �all we need is love�. I think we should all love each other. Knowing that we are all the same should cause us all to be kind and charitable to each other. I still like metal don't get me wrong. I am just saying this in case I say I like a band, and they turn out to be a member of a hate group or something like that, I am against hate. I can not research all these bands, as some of them seem imposable to research. I do not understand how smart talented people can be so stupid these days. Radman 08/27/2007. Take it from me Radman. I have spent allot of money over the years on metal band cd's I did not want! I figured I would use the internet and look at all the top ten lists and buy what ever was on at least the top 5 of all the lists combined. right? Wrong! I ended up with so many cds I did not like it was not even funny! Hundreds of dollars wasted! I am a starving artist! I have no money to waste! The problem with most lists is that they include every genre there is. This is not that big of a deal. First off let me tell you I love Black or Death Metal! If you are a free minded person like me you should be able to admit this to your self. If not oh well you are missing out on the most brilliant music of any millennium. Let me tell you why I like Death or Black metal. Number one it is the hardest of all hard rock! The unreal talent of the instrumental work alone is incredible! I have always like classical music and to me Black and Death metal is more like classical music than any other rock. I like that there are no lows and highs. Black and death metal stays at a even keel. I like that it changes allot. I like the rebel aspect of it. It makes you feel as though you are venting your frustrations through listening to it. I like the majesty of it! I do not find it offensive to any religion. The music is about rebellion and part of that is thumbing your nose at those who think they are over you. I know a lot about the bible and even know quit a bit about the opposite of that and neither one has any real connection or any real opposition to either. It is all about music. To me all music is beautiful. I do not understand every word and it is obvious to me that this music is designed this way. You can not tell me that all the words are to be comprehended, that is sometime ridiculous to believe. I love the most ridiculous Black and Death music the most. The more ridiculous the better! I like it when it makes me feel as though I am a king sitting on my thrown. I like it because it makes me feel tough! It really brings out the man in me. I like Black and Death metal because it makes me feel like a warrior. You need to understand that it is all make believe. In a world where reality is so grim it is such a relief to escape through the hard rock of metal. There are many reasons I can not explain why I love Black and Death metal. Lets just say I love it for all those reasons too. Too all the things you can not explain, I say rock on! ROCK ON! Let me say this about all the other genres. There is good in all of them just not as frequent as Black or Death metal. Allot of grind core bands should be called Black or Death Metal bands. I do not want to talk about the good bands in other genres I hope to list them here. I do not like that bands that are death and black metal are listed in other genres either. The problem is the world we live in. Every one is so uptight about movies and music and every other aspect of life that may be out on a limb. Lucky for you Radman lives out on a iimb. I am the Radical one, there fore I must act and live radical right? I do not drink or take drugs or am a adict of any kind or any thing like that. When I like something I say it, like my metal. I also want you all to know I have allot of art work that is Death metal to the bone. I hop to feature that here too. Peace and Gurgle, Grrrrrrroooowl, and screeeeeech!Radman I may change this list at any time but seeing I am not a chicken lets get going here is what I think so far� If it seems as though I am going by alphabetical order at times, I am. These bands are so great they do not need to be in order. The first 7 are though. I will be adding allot more soon.
1. Mayhem 2. Marduk 3. Immortal 4. Emperor 5. Carpathian Forest 6. Dimmu Borgir 7. Cradle of Filth 8. Absu 9. Dark Funeral 10. Ancient 11. Burzum 12. Finntroll 13. Gorgoroth 14. Enthroned 15. Graveland 16. Hecate Enthroned 17. Cryptopsy 18. Cannibal Corpse 19. Cattle Decapitation 20. Centinex 21. Dismember 22. Gorguts 23. Immolation 24. Impaled Nazarene 25. Incantation 26. Judas Iscariot 27. Khold 30. Mortuary 31. My Dying Bride 32. Necromantia 33. Nile 34. Rotting Christ 35. Suffocation 36. Thy Primordial 37. Vader 38. Vomitory 39. Sodom 40. Bolt Thrower 41. Jungle Rot 42. Suffocation 43. Opeth 44. Gorgoroth 45. Dragonlord 46. KRISIUN 47. Old Man's Child 48. Tidfall 49. Necromantia 50. Defleshed 51. Cliteater 52. Beherit 53. Behemoth 54. Anata 55. Darkthrown