I followed your instruction and ended up with exactly the same song

You dont need five fingers on left hand, Lord Lokhraed has only two

My guitar lead is blue like a flower. A poisonous flower.

That whole insight into 2 guitar tracks and how they complement each other was quite eye opening. Thanks!

The riffing actually reminds me of later Burzum albums (Belus for instance). Very nice!

You earned a new subscriber based on the first thirty seconds of this video alone... the rest of your lessons - holy hell - amazing!! Thanks for all you do!

I would like to give this video and explanation in it a billion likes. That's precious.

So for Old School BM you would just roll a bunch of dice and add that up to figure out the BPM :D

Well, I have the internal darkness part down

"Internal Darkness"

black metal song step 1. corpsepaint step 2. tremolo pick and blast beat step 3. satan step 4. record your song with a toaster that's about it

Seriously, mate - thanks for this - having a visual mapping really helps someone like to be able put things together. This is infinitely helpful.

Reminds me a lot of Alcest or Amesoeurs, especially that chorus type riff. Really nice.

Been practicing the theory for a while and I've been getting a good fast picking technique down. Can't wait to start writing music soon.

Your channel is the best on YT sir. Picked up quite a few things already following your vids ^^

For me, this is the absolute most helpful video I have ever seen. Many thanks, to you.

Great lesson, I have written one riff so far and haven't made any progress as of yet

Your an awesome charecter xD from the intro alone

This is the best BM tutorial ever seen...tnx my man

hey dude As an aspiring Black Metal Vocalist also bassist I'm very impressed with your song and video on how to create A Black Metal song I'm using a drum machine to record drum tracks as I've had trouble looking for drummers and my mates band does the same. you sir have given me confidence to work on my music even without A real drummer and shows you can work with programmed drums. thanks dude please do more videos like this. have a good day sir.

I love you, Simon - if I'm ever in your part of the world, I'm buying you a pint. :D

You did a really good job! The song even sounds great.

This is the best black metal tutorial that I've never seen, I follow you from Latinamerica.

WOW! that was amazing i really like that.,i think that also we will also needs logic pro X to begin composing Black Metal music.Thanks always for your contribution.

Great job, thanks for the tutorial it's helpful! :). I liked your thoughts on the structure too, not all BM has to be pure blast beats and minor chords!

Now this was a needed video. Great job!

Still grinning at "Some form.... of beard..." But yes, totally necessary :O)

Great vid Simon very helpful as usual :)

Reminds me of Peste Noire! Great video as always.

loved the minor stuff in the last half... it just gives that ominous feel with the perceived atonality. Half steps are really great too in all types of metal - it kind of trips up the mind which almost expects whole step movements, or symmetry, I guess on could say. I use that a lot with my doom metal writing, along with sliding into notes...

I still use cassette recorders. ROCK ON man!

Dynamics? Talk about Panzer Division Marduk! 😁 I really enjoyed this video and I also liked a lot your approach to creating harmonies! The change of keys was also great! That's something I always kinda struggle with. The chorus sounds very nice, by the way

sounds too happy. needs more ear piercing distortion sound, more tremolo picking and more dissonance.

put some evil whispering vocals on that chorus....!! by the way..THANK YOU! you are a GREAT teacher!! please don't stop!

Cool! Nice riff :D

Simon, I absolutely love your videos! I wished I had started playing the guitar 20 years earlier. And - for teaching reasons - I wished you were a German somewhere in Germany, haha :-D Keep those videos going. They help a lot.

You know I watch this video once a while and the funny stuff gets me everyone time! I swear. But its a great Lesson!

thanks it's about time!!

For years I've been looking for a fisher price cassette recorder for my black metal. Any advice on that?

I wrote lyrics and now I just need the music. this was helpful and fun to watch.

Beautiful guitar and tone man. The riffs remind me of winterfylleth.

Averse concept = gud black metal. Corpse paint would have been a nice touch. Just for fun. :) Gotta admit , with those drums I didn't think it was going to work out, but it somehow all tied in nicely. Well done man.

Love your videos man! Good content and a healthy dose of humour, can you do a tutorial for Doom Metal/Stoner Rock sometime please? Cheers!

Thank you this was immensely helpful! will you be uploading more kyteler song tutorials?

Good song. Sound great!

Sounds like Woods of Desolation, one of my favorite black metal bands.

+1 subscriber to Simon! Great work, sir!

Great tune! The only thing I would do differently is drench thoose guitars and drums with reverb. A favorite thing to do for me is to get impulse responses of any place I can and use that. Currently working on something with a IR from a thick pine forest during the winter

Very good! Love it!

That intro is gold

Great video! Do you think you could do some sort of tutorial video for sweep picking? I've been really struggling to get a grasp on it, so any tips would be much appreciated!

Thanks, Simon!

amazing dude

Goddamnit, blast beat in triplet-feel and this would be so black metal

Love it!

Name of the song from the Darkthrone riff

Awesome 🤘🖤👍

Any suggestions for learning to hold the chords?

Thanks to your beginner tutorial i can Play Black metal. my guitar skill is still crap but power chords and some dyads are no problem. Now it's time for learning tremolo picking :)

Cool song, thanks

As i can see in your videos about black metal, it seems like it it really easy. Got two questions: 1) Is it possible to play in D standard, tune down D-Step and E-Standard? 2) May i choose between those techniques? Foollish questions but i'm new to black metal

I can sense Burzum influence in the song you created. I like it.

You're hilarious. Love your sense of humor.

the last riff was the best

How do I know how to just write a riff? What are ways to know if there is a harmony or progression? I play guitar, but I have only learned chords and look up tabs, I have no idea how you would make up a riff.

I news more of this, do you have other lessons like this one?

That was BADASS

how do you like the dragon picks? looks intersting but something like gravity picks seem a bit more standard. i cant choose

do you record the guitar parts in 1 take or do you record them in sections and put them together?

Actually sounds more like an Atmospheric Black Metal

mate i love the expression of your face after you said "Black Metal"

He's pure musical evil but his voice sounds so nice and relaxing

Good good!!

i love this video.

What about changing up those opening riffs to tackle manipulating the fifths? This is pretty common in black metal and bands like Emperor or Dimmu Borgir do this pretty frequently.

That B flat chrod on first 3 strings(thinier one),sounds best.

Imo, the best part of this clip is from 17:58... that sounds more like bm than the other stuff. Kinda reminds me about Burzum in a way ;)

I fucking love your videos man. That is all

can you do a video about maybe a little more complicated drums like inquinamentum

Hey Simon, is essential studying music theory for more complex riffs and musical structure? I come on with cool sounding riffs but i never know how to structure that riff in a song, so i get stuck

By the way, your "repetition" comment let me thought about Deathspell Omega's latest output (Synarchy of molten bones) which is mostly doing without repetition. Maybe you can handle one of their songs in one of your next videos. Although - at least for me - it is very difficult to access this particular release, I find it nevertheless highly attracting (if that's the proper phrase) and would love to hear your stance on it.

I’ve got everything except for the facial hair... But I keep my high and tight fade from my marine corps days... it looks militant and tough... call it marine kvlt 😉

Good song.. like Lifelover!

Forgot to invoke our lord \m/

4:00 it reminds me one of the harakiri songs and the tone is perfectly theirs :D damm

Guys. What's brand are his guitars?

sounds like 90's dance. (a good thing imho). No valley too deep no mountain too high...

ooh it's good

You should do a tutorial for beast above man by dark funeral!

Epic

Thank you!

Sounds very Katatonia Brave Murder Day, to me anyway. Love that album.

It would be awesome if you do one on deathmetal or deathcore :)

that song sounds great but i think that wouldn't be black, it's more like post-black

Guitar newb question: around 5:25 when you say "that could go over a C or an A minor", can you explain what you mean?

plz do more

Are you using a pedal or is that distortion in your amp?

Bass line?

Whats that pick?

What about bass?