Rotting christ Thy mighty contract was the album that brought me into black metal for real. I've listened to songs from time to time back in the day, but after thy mighty contract I started actually buying black metal albums. Also managed to see them live where the crowd chanted their name and they came back and played The sign of evil existence. I always love to listen to their older stuff just like the mentioned thy mighty contract and non serviam, a dead poem and passage to arcturo. Like come on man, Exiled archangels are one of the best black metal songs I've ever heard.

Some other notable albums from Poland I would add are: Christ Agony - Moonlight Act III Arkona - Imperium Sacrilegium - Wicher All of them came out in 1996

that greek scene got me bleeding cash for vinyl... RC, Katavasia, Caedes Cruenta, Yoth Iria, Cult of Eibon, Kawir, Empire of the Moon... on and fuckin on

Murder Rape is a great brazilian black metal band, they released a full length called "Celebration of Supreme Evil" in 1994. Great Vast Forest is also a bang, but they didn't release a full lenght.

Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult ....still the greatest .With Onielar doing the vocals for Bethlehem too .

Excellent job young man!!! You covered a lot of ground and a lot of killer bands. Bravo!!!

Not gonna lie, I've set this year to be the year where I find out about and hopefully even get into bands I've yet to listen to, new or old. And this channel is doing wonders for that, from Flagitious Dilapidation in the Idiosyncrasy (I think that's the spelling that's just off the top of my head) to Intestine Baalism. I've been introduced to some actually really good music from this channel alone, and I feel it's gonna be the case for more bands throughout this year.

Stillbirth Machine is one of my favorites, super underrated album

Gotta mention that you completely forgot Belgium with Enthroned&Ancient rites. Besides that great clip. Brought me back great memories.

The more videos like this you do the better . These type of very specific eras of metal and waves and all that is so fun to hear about

I love how your videos constantly remind me of how much catching up I have to do with bm music

Great vid. Best recommendations as always

Happy to see you mention Lunar Poetry! Love that record. 💛💙

My favourite video of yours so far. 🤘

Amazing content as always

You forgot to mention Samael's first two albums: "Worship Him" (1990), and "Blood Ritual" (1992). Much more straightforward kind of doomy-black metal.

I would put the death date of first wave black metal in 1988 as that was when Bathory released their last Black Metal album "Blood, Fire, Death" and the birth date for the second wave of black metal in 1988-1989 as those were the year when some of the first Second wave bands such as Samael, Rotting Christ, Blasphemy, Varathron, Mystifier, etc. started popping up with their demos. Also I would say that Root and Masters Hammers should've been in the video as those are bands that I would say bridge the gap between First and Second wave black metal as they both formed right when the first wave was in it's final stages but were starting to get notoriety in the beginning of the second wave and released their debuts during the era of Second Wave black metal.

Cool to see Mexico in a vid. Might recommend Winter moon lots of you guys might like it. The album with the red cover and a wolf is amazing

what everyone misses about war metal is: the grindcore influence. What sets apart Mystifier and Profanatica from Sadistik Exekution and Blasphemy is the grindcore Influence. Yes it is all a mix of black metal elements and death metal elements but an easier to set apart Bestial Black Metal and War Metal is if its closer to Death Metal or Grindcore Some of the favourite bands of Blasphemy are grindcore bands (as they have said)

Moonspell from Portugal. Back when Gothic black metal was a subgenre. Primordial from Ireland. Godkiller from Monaco.

That C93 shirt is killer! Looks like a dead crow. I have the weird Jesus shirt which I always feel strange wearing cause not a christian. Cool vid. I'm of the rare opinion the whole Norwegian drama was in some ways a detriment to the scene. And holy shit you got that Comus album man! Hell yeah! Interesting point about the more barbaric sounds in other bands outside of Norway. You see personally I would say a number of those bands, such as Blasphemy, are not even Black metal. Its war metal and that whole bestial sound is a different but related scene. Also the sound itself and structure of the music is incredibly different from not only early Dimmu but even Dark Throne. Summoning and Abigor are much more connected to that sound or spirit. I have said it here before and I will say it again, early Cradle is fucking amazing. Been listening to those early albums for a loooong time.

I know Scotland is still apart of the UK but i think the super small but creative scene in Scotland is amazing. Great mix of atmospheric/ambient to primitive savage trad bm to crust punk infused stuff. Its just a blast honestly

Interesting video, would be cool if this would be a mini series, more countries and a couple of vids 😁 For sure need to check out Mexico scene👍

A lot of amazing albums you listed here. I would agree that Blut aus Nord started off really strong but I wouldn't really say that they were by the books black metal at all. Not only is there the drum machine but Ultima thule especially is mixed so weirdly that the kick sounds like a distand thunder and the guitars are so distorted you can't really make out the riffs. But it all adds up to a very emmursive atmosphere and for me they were a sign of the amazing albums to come later in their discography.

Nice shirt! Been getting into Current 93 a lot recently.

Italy also had Opera IX. Still around, but I only listen to the stuff with Cadavaria on vocals. Their album Call of the Wood fits within your time frame.

Awesome vid as always man! Frozen Shadows - Dans les bras des immortels (1999, Full-length) as well as Empires de glace (1996, Demo) are great examples of early canadian Black Metal if you're interested

This was a very interesting pick on how black metal was understood and portrayed outside its birthplace. And I agree with you on the mexican scene. We didn't have much going on about black metal back in the day. Mexico always had a preference for death metal, goregrind and some thrash.

Great video you should make another video like this but with 1st wave black metal

Great topic. Greece (Varathron, Rotting Christ, Necromantia) and Austria (Early Abigor, summoning, early Dornenreich) are among my favorites, but almost every country has unique classics.

You have no idea how much it warms my heart to see Bal-Sagoth get some recognition. EDIT: Shame you didn't involve EP's, because Hecate Enthroned's 'Upon Promeathean Shores (Unscriptured Waters)' is another classic of UK Black Metal.

The GOAT USBM band is THY INFERNAL. They only made two albums and broke up 20 years ago, but they rule. I was lucky enough to see them a few times locally (Portland, Oregon)but they never really toured. HIGHLY recommend checking them out!! Keep it up Hail Satan!👹

Here to tell everyone to look into the Chinese bm scene. It often goes unnoticed, but offers some unique material. Particularly with their own instruments/writing style and in the vein of dsbm

as a person from czechia it made me very happy to see my country inclueded maniac butcher is an amazing choice and very valid anyway great video

love the abigor in the background

Japan’s black metal is genuinely really great, super underrated.

On god bro thank you for bringing up Singapore

You put me on game with the bands shown. Thanks. Do you think you'll do a vid on one man bands in different countries? Haven't looked through all your vids, thanks for posting.

Great job! you might want to check out another super early Israeli BM band, Salem, who were in contact with Deathlike Silence in real time and even got life threats from Varg (of course). Check out their "Destruction Till Death ‎('87).

Some important bands from Belgium are Ancient Rites and Enthroned. They weren't mentioned here, and I would think that especially Enthroned is a big name.

I don't think Sadistik Exekution qualifies as 2nd Wave, I say it bc all the material they released during that period was written during the 80's and has clear still-thrashy sound. And also, this video is missing Colombian bands. Like Nebiros, Utuk-Xul, Thy Antichrist, Erzebet, Typhon, and although everyone knows it, Inquisition.

Great list, some of the names were unknown to me and sound really dope (Mortuary Drape, Belméz, Abigail)

One more band from Germany: Ungod - Circle of the Seven Infernal Pacts (1993)

Destroyer 666, Gospel of the Horns, Striborg, Corpse Molestation... Just a few off the top of my head from Australia, seeing as you started here...

Another great scene to note is Russia's Blazebirth Hall scene with bands like Branikald and Forest.

The Baltics Countries have a pretty outstanding black metal scene, talking mostly about Lithuania and Latvia. And sadly, in the context of this video, the scene was pretty active starting from 1997 and early 2000. Groups like Skyforger, Heresiarh, Anubi, Obtest. If someone is more into pagan/polytheistic aspect of black metal - check them out. And in context of this video, in context of this video, there were band Poccolus with self-titled release in 1996. Some people say it's mid, don't really agree on this one.

Could have mentioned Blazebirth Hall and the rest of the Temple of the Fullmoon bands.

So happy that you mentioned Israel😁 we have an interesting black metal scene. a band I recommended is dim aura

From Metal Archives, you have over 800 lp albums from both waves combined from 1980-1997... you ain't going to run out of interesting stuff to listen to for a good long while

Don't know if it's worth mentioning but, in my country, Chile, there were only 2 bands with full-length albums from the 2nd wave era. Bewitched in 1995 and Mjölner in 1996. Personally, I don't think they are that good lol but these are the first black metal albums from Chile ever, so I guess they have some importance even though there were more bands around releasing demos.

Greek black metal is my favorite genre next to simply atmospheric black. I feel way more engaged with them. Its hard to put into words you know.

You also left out for early Absu, their debut album 'Barathrum V.I.T.R.I.O.L.' released in 1993. They're another one of the earliest USBM bands.

First viewer, fuck yeah!!! Love your content btw 🤘

You forgot to include As Sahar who are from Singapore as well and they did release their very first studio album "Phenomistik" in 1996.

Indonesia's been killin' it lately!!

How do you find such fire themes almost always, goddamit, i wanna marry this channel

Scarlet Evil Witching Black is my favorite Necromantia album, but they released Crossing the Fiery Path in 1993, two years before Scarlet.

What did Rapunzel do with Wyatt?

Germany also had Grausamkeit but I don’t know if That guy made albums or just demos but he was around early and extremely young(first record produced with 15) one man project Dungeon synth mixed with early dark throne. Very raw black metal. Unfortunately lots of people claim that the dude is doing NSBM stuff but I think it’s just shock value. Recently for some reason his early stuff got Tiktok fame...

One great German band that didn't release full length is Grausamkeit.

Ah, good old Belmez. Definitely something to check out for people who always wanted to hear a lo-fi BM song about UFOs (»Lautloser Gigant«). ^^ If you haven't already, check out Priestermord as well, they may have been the very first genuine BM band from Germany.

Thanks for introducing me to jerusalem burns.

The unholy trinity of german black metal imo are nagelfar, moonblood and katharsis. Also how could you forget infernum, the band of the polish guy that tried to assasinate fenriz.

Despite being Norwegian I just checked out a gem called Forlorn which was Viking just before the start of Windir. I only want to give them more word, mean no disrespect to the video. If I think of any more I'll add them to my other comment here.

Negura Bunget from România. What a band..

There is also Nehëmah from France.

dig the t-shirt fella

“Suit and tie sounding black metal”

Some of the BEST black metal is going on in Mexico these days IMO

Belgium has Lugubrum, also forgot the UK’s Meads Of Asphodel and the US’s Masochist. Good on including Order From Chaos though

Relinquish!!

Nice shirt btw

Bruh nice 93 tshirt. Rank their discography, I've got all day 😂

Not sure if they count as 2nd Wave (they formed in 1994 and didn't release their first album until 2001), but Dark Fortress is another cool German Black Metal band! Their sound has changed a bit over time; they started out playing fairly melodic BM, but their more recent output displays some Extreme Prog Metal characteristics. Basically, if you like Naglfar, Lunar Aurora, and Ne Obliviscaris, they're worth checking out

II tend to think 2nd wave ended in 99 why? because that's when the imitators really started to pop up. For the UK Hecate Enthroned (also check out Defod formed in 2021 but the original HE line up), Daemonum, Thine, Salem Orchid, Frost (mick kenney).

uh current 93's S. for Noddy t-shirt, cool!

hail order from chaos

There are actually more interesting stuff from Israel from those years GRIMOIRE - A Requiem for the Light 1996 Dalmerot's Kingdom - Ha'mistorin Ha'nitzchi 1998 The Bishop of Hexen - Archives of an Enchanted Philosophy 1997

Mgla is definitely the best polish black metal band. You should check it out

Where’s Belgium in your list? Enthroned? And especially Ancient Rites’ Blasfemia Eternal.

Rotting Christ is definitely my favorite band out of the Balkans, without question.

Can I get a list of black metal bands with guttural vocals? I never got into those high pitched vocals but dig lower register vocals like mgla .

YEAHHHHHH GREECE BABY

Mystifier doesn't have anything less to any band in Europe. As evil as it gets.

Cool video but why did you leave out the Russian scene completely

Mystifier from Brazil and Blasphemy from Canada are my favorites, i love this style of black metal 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘😈😈👹👹

Did you leave out Absurd intentionally?

I actually prefer the 3rd and final Order from Chaos album, more mid tempo stuff and imo more interesting riffs. The vocals on that one are also really good.

Amazing Current 93 shirt my man. Swastikas for Noddy is probably my favorite record of theirs at the moment.

Check out Endless Dismal Moan from Japan.

Ireland has some pretty cool black metal. Goniloc did a whole vid on that btw. Ps. I literally kinda have the same hair style/look as Wyatt and it freaks me out.

Foreigner: *Mentions Brazil* Brazilians: I HAVE BEEN SUMMONED!

From Ireland, I think Waylander and Cruachan count.

albert?

Try the german Black Metal/ Extreme Metal Band Endstille.

negura bunget and argus megere are brlliant Romanian black metal bands

Is it Sar-cough-ago or Sar-co-far-go? I always say it the first way

My guy didn’t even mention Nargaroth for Germany

No mention of forgotten tomb in the Italian part is criminal

Totally...Maniac Butcher Is our Immortal 😀 But grindcore And Thrash is where it's at..