Sabbat is awesome. Not to mention they have consistently produced great material to this day.

Root is probably my favourite first wave act. Their first 3 albums are amazing and I love that they evolved their sound over the years and didn't stick to any formulas nor did they try to capitalize on the success of the 2nd wave.

As far as I've seen, your channel is the only one making videos like this. Keep doing it! I look for these whenever I start getting into a particular genre, but I can hardly ever find a video on it; even Death Metal, all there is is an Anthony Fantano video... where he shows some of the most popular Death Metal albums ever. Keep up the good work, these will definitely help people get into the music.

When Wyatt said “the land of the rising sun” I felt that in my soul

Morbid is one of my favorite bands. I think that Dead's vocals on December Moon are some of the most eerie , monstrous , and unique vocals ever recorded and the music is absolutely amazing.

Dude I'm loving these vids where you recommend great albums from specific metal genres. Keep the work

First wave black metal is one of my favorite waves of black metal simply because of how many gems there are hidden within it. I couldn't help but agree with every single one of these. I'm glad you chose Into the Drape for Mortuary Drape since that was the EP that got me into them and most people only mention All the Witches Dance. Totally agree about Masters Hammer and Bulldozer as well. You pretty much summed up what Bulldozer are - Venom but better and faster in every way. Italy is one of my favorite places for first wave black metal hands down. Fantastic list man.

There is also Death SS and Necrodeath. Italy had a good scene since the very beginning.

Man thanks for the recommendation of awesome first wave bands I was that guy , only knew Bathory, Venom, hellhammer, sarcófago ,you just won a subscriber

The Chad First Wave BM Enjoyer: "yes."

Volcano, Mutilator and Chakal are amazing underground Brazilian first wave black metal bands

Ritual is so fucking solid. discovered it after you mentioned it in a previous video and it's probably now my favorite from the first wave.

Holy shit fucking awesome video! I know I’m late to the party for this video but these are some really great essential listens. Also wanted to mention that Necrolust demo from Vader is really good too. Really influential stuff

I think you forgot the Colombian Scene. Parabellum, Sacrilegio, Blasfemia etc... For me it isn't real first wave black metal, but also doesn't fit in with the second wave black metal. They were way ahead of their time for me. But glad to see that finaly someone showed some love for Sabbat, Vulcano, Masters Hammer...

Thanks for this! There are definitely some new names for me to check out. Great presentation!

Black metal from Brazil fckn slays

Good to hear someone bring up Sabbat, Master's Hammer, and Bulldozer. These guys were ahead of their time. You should do a video of bands that influenced the first waves like Angel Witch and Witchfynde. If you have that's even better. Rock on dude 🤘

good

Very cool video! Love your channel

"Czech Republican"

My favourite first-wave BM album will always be the Steamhammer version of Sodom's "Obsessed by Cruelty," with Bulldozer's "Day of Wrath" being a close second 🤘

I discovered all these bands via Fenriz... that man is a walking music encyclopedia

Thanks for the recommendations \,,/

Imperator, Mystifier, Expulser, Dorsal Atlanticas first release

Totally totally agree with you.. I'm 48 and and have been into black metal since I was 15. I remember well 1st wave..

Pressed like as soon as you said first wave beat second wave in riffs. Nice bro.

Not one American black metal band! Lets not forget san frans VON!

The return is bathorys most black metal album IMO

Sabbat is my first recommendation. Then Venom and early Sodom. \m/ Thanks for the recommendations 🤘🏻

Man u nailed it

Great stuff bro!!

My Top favorite Black Metal and Black Metal related bands 1. Agalloch 2. Darkthrone 3. Desaster 4. Moonblood 5. Drowning the Light 6. Blasphemy 7. Bathory 8. Summoning 9. ColdWorld 10. Abigor 11. Foudre Noire 12. Horna 13. Alcest 14. Grand Belial's Key 15. Deafheaven 16. Sargiest 17. Emperor 18. Black Funeral 19. Anaal Nathrakh 20. Forteresse 21. Hinsidig 22. Empaligon 23. Ulver 24. Ghost Bath 25. Sorcier des glaces 26. Marduk 27. Seeds of iblis 28. azghal 29. gorgoroth 30. Lord belial 33 black alter 34. Limbonic art And many more

Hey love the 2nd wave as much as the next guy but for me the first wave smokes it! Poison ( Germany) Sodom’s and Destruction’s first albums! Parabellum!!!! From Columbia! Vulcano’s debut is one of the best South America has to offer! Good call there! As well Pentagram from Chile!

Nice video/list Wyatt. Missed the Mystifier mention, but ok :/

In the sign of evil was my gateway from thrash to black metal. I picked it up blindly being already a fan of Agent Orange and absolutely fell in love. From there, I got into Hellhammer, Vulcano, early Sepultura and kept digging deeper.

First two Kreator albums are also quite influential, especially Endless Pain sounds very blackened Thrash.

Glad to see in the Sign of Evil and December moon.

I always come back to this vid to introduce my friends to black metal

Great list! Here's another early BM band: Moonspell. They started as a black/ folk metal band and today they evolved into dark/ Gothic metal. Have a look at the albums under satanae and wolfheart.

Mortuary Drape “Into the Drape” and Bulldozer “IX” are a HUGE deal

Nice first wave black metal album form Czech is Törr - Witchhammer - 1987.

First wave BM does not get enough recognition

Destruction's first two releases (E,Ps.) Rudimentary? Maybe, but glorious noise. I'll never forget the first time I head Sentence Of Death back in the day.

Excellent

These bands are a mix of different styles, and sounds, a little bit of everything from heavy metal, punk, thrash, and death metal. No doubt these bands paved the way for what would become black metal. Elements of some of these bands were picked up later by other bands, but the true black metal sound that we know of today was established in norway. But, I still love all the early stuff because they had different styles and they didn't all sound like copy cats, and all the early stuff wasn't held back by a certain label, it was just extreme metal of all sorts.

Sathanas (PA), Poison (Ger), and Death Yell(Chile) to name a few. Solid list.

Man I love Master's Hammer - Ritual

Fact: Bathory's best album is Blood Fire Death... no debate. Nice concept... woulda dug a mention of NME, Show No Mercy, Morbid Visions (do people not realize that Wagner formed Sarcofago AFTER he left Sepultura?), for that matter the first shit from Dorsal Atlantica, Parabellum/Blasfemia (probably the most important bands out of Colombia and essential to anyone digging into black metal's past). And not even a passing mention of Samael's Worship Him or their demos... for shame Wyatt ;)

Blood upon the altar is part of the first wave which is pretty interesting to be honest.

Sarcofago is first wave and there probably one of the bands to really influence second wave. Volcano was probably the first from Central America and South America. I feel like really south and Central America really created the sound for black metal that ppl did in the second wave

Also Goatlord (demos and both albums), Beherit (demos and Drawing Down the Moon), Blasphemy (Gods of War), and Varathron (His Majesty at the Swamp). If you want to go to the roots of the first wave in the late 70s/early 80s, then NWOBHM bands like Angelwitch, Witchfynde, Pagan Altar, and Cloven Hoof are your ticket!

Desert is my favourite speed metal song \m/, desert-bulldozer

Could have mentioned the NME, the German Poison and the Necrovore demo

5:30 you made that riff sound like a banjo run

1st wave BM band members basically were proper metal heads, where as 2nd wave (Norse stuff) consisted mainly of Gothic hand jobs who formed bands :-D

I'm sure these will ruffle some purist feathers, actually i hope they do. hahaha! Destruction - Sentence of Death EP Wolfpack - Total Head Removal Exterminator - Total Extermination Poison - Further Down into the Abyss (Comp) Necrodeath - Into the Macabre Oh yeah and UK Sabbat did much for Second and even Third Wave Black Metal and they were just a Thrash band.

Cant forget the chaotic australian early black/death/thrash scene either! Bands like sadistik exekution starting war metal, great bands like slaughter lord, martire, corpse molestation/bestial warlust, Destruktor and so on

my favourites are venom hellhammer Celtic frost and more

Sodom has such tasty riffs.

Morbid! 😁🔥

Interesting concept for a video if you ever see any magazines from the 80's sitting probably at the back of a record store if they have any sections for tape trading & penpals anyone back in the day would be citing they were into Black Metal would be listing Venom Bathory Celtic Frost Hellhammer Mercyful Fate King Diamond Sabbat Bulldozer & early Kreator & Sodom as the band's they were into ever if you come across copies of Metal Forces magazine like I did a couple of years ago pick them up for the Penbangers tape trading & penpals section they actually make a fascinating time capsule read along with Mega Metal Kerrang! & Kerrang! Kontacts the latter was purely for such ads ....

Why Not Envenom instead of Evoke?

First wave BM would always be my sweetheart because of all the directions it can go. Not to say 2nd wave BM can't go places. Quite the opposite. But with 1st wave its even crazier. I keep seeing many early first wave acts (being highly regarded by BM fans) being referred to as death metal, thrash, punk like its part of one genre. To me, it says how versatile it is despite the blackened feel.

You didn't mention Samael 'Worship Him' or 'Blood Ritual', those first two albums are so riff heavy.

I honestly thought "Root" was pretty well known. My bad I guess? Also, talking about first wave bm, no one seems to ever mention "Kat" from Poland.

Hello wyatt, we need part 2! 1st wave has so much to talk about, for example, what the fuck did black metal mean in the mid n late 80's?

What is the name of the album at 1:17?

Ni mention of Slayee..snm was an 80's BM album

Vulcano sounds a bit closer to Death Metal than BM imo, nice video btw

Poison from Germany is cited all the time. A very awesome band.

as much as i dont like loudwire, i must give them credit for my music taste today. my black metal interest started with seeing a loudwire video with emperor in it. i started off on emperor and moved on from that

I would add Messiah - "Ëxtreme cold weather" 1987

Tormentor, fuck yeah!

I like the first wave A LOT more than second wave Not too edgy or takes itself too serious And the playing and production i feel like was better It was gritty, ambient bad in a good way imo and actually brutal and evil With 2nd wave i gotta be honest is kinda annoying to listen too And in general i feel like the 2nd wave was a lot more about the bands themselves or the controversy not too much about the music It’s like the actual music is overshadowed by the production and band and everything surrounding it. I don’t want it to be mainstream popular or good on a level like thrash or death I just want brutal heavy riffs with brutal evil singing that isn’t just death metal growls or screeching Bathory was cool but nowadays it’s overdone I know it’s supposed to be extreme but the 1st wave was actually does imo do that in a great way Aldo i love the Rock ‘N’ Roll/Speed Metal playing approach Venom has, its awesome as hell Their singing also was really cool Cronos has a awesome as hell voice we need more speed metal like deep rough voices in black metal.

I'm not a bm nerd, but I love it and I thank you for making me discover new music :)

Bulldozer is one of my favorite first wave black metal bands, since we're also talking about the first wave sound, Sabbat is up there for me too.

I would have thought people would have said Mercyful Fate is one of their favorite first wave black metal band.

Man you didnt mention Supultura: Bestial Devestation/Morbid Visions, Samael: Worship Him, nor Mercyful Fate self title.

Master Hammer's The Ritual its from 91'... I don't think is FWBM, well that's my personal opinion.

Pre-Persecution Mania Sodom was really primitive and evil.

Would you consider Rotting Christ's first three albums as a continuation of 1st Wave Black Metal, rather than 2nd Wave Black Metal?

I'm sad merciful fate wasn't mentioned

No love for Mercyful Fate??!

first wave of kuroi tetsu :D, Brack Metar i mean

Imo the second album by master's hammer is better cause of the more experimental parts and the riffs are better

It's bathory

i must mention beherit!!!!

What about "the other Mayhem", this one from Norway, and Thorns, also from Norway? Pretty influential first wave pioneers for the whole genre and their music is very good. I just bought "Thorns" by Thorns, but I also highly recommend taking a listen to Mayhem's "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" if you haven't already.

I got into black metal from a gumball episode

I think Black Metals "Black Metal" is the best black metal of all black metal, imo. Black metal.

you look like kurt russell from big trouble little china

You saying first wave black metal is overshadowed by second wave black metal couldn't be any more true. Until recently I thought the second wave was the first wave.

Some of my favorite riffs may from the second wave on, but for me the first wave's "batting average" for riffs is much, much, much higher. Anyone who is a fan of riffs over the more atmospheric elements found in second wave and modern black metal could easily listen to nothing but first wave black metal and be just fine. It really is a shame how over looked first wave black metal is, and this is coming from someone who mostly listens to DSBM.

Fantastic, first wave black metal is the best and anyone that disagrees is WRONG. Dirty sloppy satanic speed/thrash metal > most of the stuff that came out of Norway. Some other stuff I would add is Kat - 666, NME - Unholy Death, Slaughter Lord - Thrash 'Til Death, and Necrodeath - Into the Macabre.

i prefere the first wave

16:33 Bulldozer better than Venom?! BLASPHEMY

As a BM fan I have never heard nor seen Volcano. Production and sound is perfect. I listened to Morbid Visons by Sepultura a lot when I found it as a kid and from what I read Volcano are also from Brazil. Black/Death Thrash done to perfection. Now, I am gonna be that guy. imo venom is not black metal. Their influence and impact on the future of black metal and even coining the term goes without question but by this logic would we consider Slayer's "Show No Mercy" black metal? I wouldn't, but to cronos anything satanic in nature is black metal. Venom popularized the term and back then I would understand using it in this way when there wasn't a solid definition of what black metal was, but black metal as we know it now was intentional, in the 80's the term was used more loosely. Bathory, to me anyway, was the first "trve black metal" project even though Quorthon pretty much stole riffs from Venom witch Varg later stole from Bathory lmao. This Debate is tired at this point, as stated in the video, but these are just the thoughts of a gay metal boy so take it as you will and tell me I am wrong because I may be. On a side note, Your videos kick ass and thanks for sharing these great bands!

>didnt mention celtic frost. >wyattxcringe

Venom is not Black Metal.