Can you have your black metal with no moronic samples, with guitars downtuned to drill holes in your very self, hypnotizing bass lines, drums that are something more than blast beats and vocals that don't need to be soaked in reverb, and on top of it fast, melodic, headbanging and catchy?
Yes.
p.s. my grandma used to say: never judge a metal album by its intro. YomaBarr
Absolutely harrowing, howling, hurting raw black metal. The mind battering you get when you really focus on what is happening in Interment II is just spectacular.
The record that got me into Mnima, and it unveils a whole incredible wealth of foul but immensely beautiful blackness. PaulTheOwl/Ripper/MxBv
This wild 35-track all-metal benefit album features Mare Cognitum, Panopticon, and more reinventing songs by Tori Amos & others. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 3, 2020