I deleted this from my home page
Here is a copy of my likes on YouTube music:
Homework (Live) It reminds me of my high school days.
The J. Geils Band
Full House "Live"
2:44
In the Meantime It reminds me of the day I moved here.
Spacehog
4:34
Gold I saw him when I had MTV2. He is a sk8ter.
Chet Faker
Built On Glass
4:46
Left Hand Free MTV2
Alt-J
This Is All Yours
2:54
Godless The college library.
The Dandy Warhols
Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia
5:20
Goodbye Girl Love all their hits.
Squeeze
Cool For Cats
2:59
Tennessee Sucks Love this whole album. College library.
Ryan Adams
Demolition
2:55
Gimme A Sign
Ryan Adams
Demolition
3:04
Starting To Hurt
Ryan Adams
Demolition
3:19
Cry On Demand
Ryan Adams
Demolition
4:23
Desire
Ryan Adams
Demolition
3:41
You Will Always Be The Same
Ryan Adams
Demolition
2:38
Hallelujah
Ryan Adams
Demolition
3:11
Nuclear
Ryan Adams
Demolition
3:25
Big White Cloud
John Cale
Vintage Violence
3:28
In the Meantime Reminds me of searching for a place to live here, days.
Spacehog
Resident Alien
5:00
Zeroes Great, great end of album song.
Spacehog
Resident Alien
6:39
Love Is Stronger Than Death When my wife was in the army I found this CD in a shop off base.
The The
Dusk
4:38
Unkle - Rabbit In Your Headlights (feat Thom Yorke) Saw on MTV techno show. Best music video of all time. Show the plight of man in the physical and the spiritual.
Harry Nesin
6:23
The Crane Takes Flight Best rock song of all time. Don't you let them tell you that your wrong!
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
Hearts of Oak
5:28
Have You Seen My Son? Placed a Bible at my feet 1st few lyrics on this song. The end is the most epic rock and roll end I have ever heard. This is the definition of rock and roll. What ever happened to that?
Benjamin Booker
Benjamin Booker
5:08
Alloway Grove This song is in my playlist I dedicate to my wife; because I love her more. Technically men love stronger than woman. I still love women singer song writers like Mary Ramsey singing songs like What's the matter here. Or songs like Rabbit Fur Coat by Jenny Lewis.
Paolo Nutini
These Streets
The above paragraph was updated on August 06, 2022, this blog is updated about 2 times a month.
Oh My How Could I forget!
My bestest buddy over the years from back when I was selling art to Tracker Designs. He used to mail me and had phone calls with me allot. This friendship lasted for many years and to this day. He last mailed me his original art back in 1999. He even talked to my wife one time and told her to be patient and someday I would make it as a artist back around 1988.
Jim Phillips!
This one put him on the map and I saw it in a Thrasher Magazine ad and that is how we became buddy's.
I watched as I bought Thrasher Magazines this monster unfold.
I was in Thrasher too in 1991 you know here is a copy:
This is the biggest copy I ever showed on the web all though I had it on the web since 2001
Here is a copy of the work published in the Magazine I own to this day:
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| This is a scan from the original magazine my Radman art was published in in 1991 making me the one and only Radman creator officially and legally. |
Michael Hussar
As I was editing this web page today I realized I had nothing from this great artist who I emailed allot to back when I was in college. He even emailed me a photo of this painting as he worked on it:
here is some more of his amazing work. He only uses the color red and this has inspired me to use limited color to this day:
This one was in one of the first Juxtapoz Magazine's I ever read:
some other favorites of his work I love:
Mark Ryden is one of my favorite artists. If you were to ask me my favorite artist this would be the first person to pop into my mind.
He likes to use Abraham Lincoln allot and that has always seemed hilarious to me.
This is very funny to me; because it is a ice cream truck but sells meat.
the puppet is Lincoln lol
He also like meat. again to me this seems funny.
This is one thing my wife pointed out to me. I never noticed this but he seems to have a infatuation with Christina Ricci, again to me this is so oddly funny.
I remember when this painting was completed I was subscribed to Juxtapoz at the time and pasted it together and put it on display with my art.
When I first subscribed to Juxtapoz I was pumping out allot of art and was doing some shows. I emailed and called many artists I liked from Juxtapoz many of them emailed me back. Brian Despain is one of those.
Then there is this guy. Brian told me about this guy via email, I think they are friends. I had also seen his work in Juxtapoz. He emailed me several times also like Brian.
Travis Louie
This guy used to email me too back in my hey day. I do not know anything about him except his paintings are amazing and he used to paint Joe Camel. He was always nice and encouraged me as a artist in his emails. It is hard to believe his paintings are paintings. They look like photos!
This guy used to email me too back in my hey day. I do not know anything about him except his paintings are amazing and he used to paint Joe Camel. He was always nice and encouraged me as a artist in his emails. It is hard to believe his paintings are paintings. They look like photos!
I can not continue this with out mentioning the king of the kings, the guy who started it all if you don't count Salvador Dali, the one the only Robert Williams.
I first learned about Robert Williams when I was a child; I was a fan of the Rat Fink art. I think I remember buying trading cards like that with the bubble gum. Then I found out he was a painter in a cool rock and roll VHS tape in the early 1990's.
This one was in the movie Vanilla Sky.
Kind of like Robert Williams I was inspired by hot rod comic books. My Uncle Bill, my favorite Uncle who gave me the John Lennon album Imagine for my birthday when it came out, had these awesome comics.
Here is some images of some like those:
I think this image is a Robert Williams
I am going to paste my favorite music bands that I love to listen to while creating art. They have been on my original Radman_Art site since 2001. I also added my favorite Black Metal bands today:
I would like to share a list of my favorite modern country music bands, on
bands page too. Most of these guys make music that will just make you cry it
is so beautiful!
Hank Williams III is just so different, lol! I memorized his first song on his
first album almost the first time I heard it. It goes like this: “I might get
drunk and rob a bank, shoot my car if it don’t crank”. I love this guy
forever!
Old Crow Medicine Show is the greatest! I have loved them since I saw their
first video on MTV Subterranean.
Bonny Billy
Calexico
Clint Osmus & The Bushmills
Cory Branan & Jon Snodgrass
Drag the River
Hank Williams III
Hayes Carll
Justin Townes Earle
Lucero
Old Crow Medicine Show
Palmer Divine
Ryan Bingham
Scott H. Biram
The Avett Brothers
The Band of Heathens
The Kerosene Brothers
The Kill Devil Hills
William Elliot Whitmore
I discovered 99% of these bands on the show MTV2 Subterranean on Sunday nights
(technically early Monday morning) at 1 AM ET.
Currently, repeats are airing on
Saturday nights at 4 AM ET.
I have had this list on my site for many years. It is always on the top of the
page. The reason for that is it is the most dearest to me. New indie rock is
more than just my favorite music it is vital to the existence of creativity.
The Black Keys
Built to Spill
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (started at Wesleyan University in my home town of
Middletown, CT.)
Mobius Band (started at Wesleyan University in my home town of Middletown,
CT.)
Silversun Pickups
Sunset Rubdown
I'm From Barcelona
Super Furry Animals
Tapes 'n Tapes
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
The Helio Sequence
The Walkmen
TV on The Radio
Wolfmother
Kasabian
Panda Bear
Broken Social Scene
Band Of Horses
Bluebeard
Old Crow Medicine Show
Modest Mouse
White Stripes
The Darkness
Snow Patrol
Beastie Boys
High & Mighty
The Mars Volta
Drive By Truckers (Saw on Conan Obrian)
Sleepy Jackson
The Walkmen
LCD Sound System
Kings of Leon
Strokes
The Hiss
Muse
Stellastar
Von Blonds
Simple Kid
Coheed and Cambria
My Morning Jacket
Delays
The Bluevan
Shout Out Louds
The National
Aesop Rock
7L & Esoteric (discovered on Tower Records web site)
The Bravery
The Living Things
Arcade Fire
Little Barrie
Augustana
Kasbian
Bright Eyes
Hot Chip
The Perishers
Panthers
The Makers
The Magic Numbers
Mogwai
The Mooney Suzuki
The Shins
Spiritualized
Starsailor
Tortoise
Travis
Caesars
Hot Hot Heat
Augustana
The Cooper Temple Clause
The Decemberists
Badly Drawn Boy
Billy Bragg & Wilco
Bright Eyes
Dirty Three
Doves
Eels
Sigur Ros
Spoon
Sunny Day Real Estate
The Coral
The Dandy Warhols
Wilco
British Sea Power
Futureheads
Phantom Planet
Guided by Voices
Mercury Rev
Clinic
Polyphonic Spree (From Dallas)
!Spring 2007 My Metal Web Site! This link is dead. I hope to find this html work I did and feature it here. Geocities took it out with their big shut down.
I only like music made by these bands during these decades, very few
exceptions to this rule. Alot of bands where great in the 80's carried over to
the 1990's.
My Favorite bands of the 1970's
Rolling Stones
The Beatles
John Lennon
George Harrison
Pink Floyd
Led Zeplin
ELO
Bob Dylan
Grateful Dead
J Geils
Steppenwolf
Emerson Lake Palmer
Cat Stevens
Jethro Tull
Foghat
Bad Company
Elton John
Rod Stewart
David Bowie
AC\DC
Aerosmith
Blue Oyster Cult
Neil Young
ZZ Top
Yes
Rush
Thin Lizzy
The Velvet Underground
T Rex
Ten Years After
Tom Waits
Three Dog Night
The Who
Styx
Steve Miller
Steely Dan
Simon & Garfunkel
Rush
Rod Stewart
Rick Wakeman
REO Speedwagon
Queen
Peter Frampton
Paul McCartney
Neil Young
Moody Blues
Meat Loaf
Marshall Tucker
Lynard Skynard
Loggins and Messina
Little feat
Johnny Winter
John Lennon
Jimi Hendrix
Jefferson Airplane
James Taylor
Jackson Browne
Ian hunter
Grand Funk Railroad
George Harrison
Genesis
Foghat
Eric Clapton
Deep Purple
Crosby Stills Nash and Young
Cream
Charlie Daniels
CCR
Bruce Springsteen
Boston
Bob Segar
The 1980's
Supertramp
New Order
Dire Straits
The Smith's
Billy Idol
The Cure
Wall of Voodoo
Beastie Boys
Talking Heads
Oingo Boingo
The Police
The Cult
Pogues
Depeche Mode
My favorite bands of the 1990's
Pearl jam
Buffalo Tom
Afghan Whigs
Faith No More
Pogues
Smashing Pumkins
Weezer
House of Pain
Burden Brothers-AKA Toadies
Sponge
Radiohead
White Zombie
Smashing Pumkins
Buffalo Tom
Nine Inch Nails
Cracker
Pearl Jam
Afghan Whigs
Nine Inch Nails
Bad Religion
Sound Garden
Godflesh, CD : Hymes
Tool
Neurosis, CD: A Sun That Never Sets
Danzig
Uncle Kracker
Violent Femmes
Type O Negative
Toadies
The The Dusk
The Rentals aka Weezer
Alice In Chains
System Of A Down
Stabbing Westward
Rage Against The Machine
Prodigy
Porno For Pyros
Jane's Addiction
INXS
House of Pain
Green day
Filter
Danzig
Cypris Hill
Catherine Wheel
Crash Test Dummies
Blues Traveler
Black Crows
2000
Tonic
The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
Also refer to the top of this list.
My Favorite Hip Hop (This needs updating):
2 Pac
3rd Bass
7l & Esoteric
8Ball
9th Wonder
A Tribe Called Quest
Aesop Rock
Atmosphere
Beastie Boys
Big Daddy Kane
Big Punisher
Biz Markie
Brand Nubian
Busta Rhymes
Coolio
Cypress hill
DJ Shadow
Dr Dre
Eazy E
Gang Starr
Ghostface Killah
Ice Cube
Jedi Mind Tricks
Kanye West
LL Cool J
Ludacris
Method Man
Mystikal
Nas
Notorious BIG
Outkast
Paul Wall
Raekwon
Richie Rich
Slick Rick
Snoop Dogg
Tricky
Wu-Tang Clan
Black Metal:
This is a quick list I want to ad a real list someday:
Gorgoroth
Burzum
Mayhem
Empereor
Darkthrone
Dimmu Borgir
Mercyful Fate
Behemoth
Borknagar
Absu
Angelcorpse
Hecate Enthroned
Mütiilation
Behexen
Nargaroth
Lucifugum
Nattefrost
INQUISITION
Marduk
Nokturnal Mortum
Ragnarok
Lord Belial
Gorgoroth
Dark Funeral
Tsjuder
Satanic Warmaster
Enthroned
Thy Infernal
April 29 2014
First off we must all agree I am electric. I have a electric personality. Get me talking about my art and you will see. I have been like that all my life. I was born into a time of music when music seemed to be a part of the wind itself. Of course living right next to the greatest coolest college in the world had it's plusses. A college so cool the Kennedys actually attended it and live on the same block as my grandfathers house. :
The grandfather who made the arch at my school who built half the town I am from. He built the house out of cement spackle, my favorite uncle lives there today. They would have concerts by very famous bands as parts of house party's or out in the football stadium; often.
I liken my personality growing up especially in California in my prime; as being like the Lyrics to "Mechanical Animals" song by MARILYN MANSON: "And I was a hand grenade. That never stopped exploding".
This all leads me to my next post about Black Metal Music. Black Metal Music is in it's prime right now. This is the 1960's of Black Metal Music like rock and roll was in the 1960's; Black Metal Music is to the early 20st Century.
It all started back in 1999. I had heard about this band from this dude who was obsessed with them and I just had to go buy a cd from the at my old hang out The CD Warehouse in Plano Texas. I bought the The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (1999) CD and the rest is art history. I did so much digital art themed with The Insane Clown Posse just before I started college. It is amazing since I barely knew what I was doing.
The Amazing Jeckel Brothers (1999) was the greatest underground hip hop CD every made!
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My wife hated them so much. I remember we were in the car down town in the Best Buy parking lot and I was listening to that CD so much she started to sing Insane Clown Posse - B?tches Lyrics "Girl, you know I love you, but now you gotta die" . I thought at the time; how adorable cute that was, lol.
Then I thought I must be on to something here. If my wife hates music then that must mean I like it. So I bought the MARILYN MANSON Dope Show CD. Marilyn Mason was in the news a lot at the time because of riots at his concerts. I was buying a lot of CD's back then. That lead to this:
This is the greatest drawing I ever did.
I did it in 1999. The colored copy was featured in my Art Bar show in Dallas. Marilyn Mason is in the middle; as if to suggest he was the center of this drawing. I tried to get him to buy this once.
That was my introduction to hard core metal! I had no idea how great this music was; but in 1999 my eyes were open. Most of my favorite art that I have done; is from the inspiration I got from listening to extreme metal. I started to buy metal music magazines at Barnes & Noble - Plano/Creekwalk Village, Plano TX. I Loved Metal Edge! They were still hard core in 1999. They had this list for the greatest bands for 1999 voted on buy the readers. I did my best to hunt them down in used CD stores; because there was no way I could afford buying them new and I would sell them back for credit. I was able to find them all. Emperor made their greatest CD that year. Type O Negative also did their greatest work that year as well; in my opinion. The World Coming Down Cd; that asked the question: why do people die? I was very sad when Peter Steele died recently. Merciful Fate also did their best work that year, and come to find out this guy King Diamond actually lives around here, that blew my mind. That lead me to discover Absu the extreme metal band from Dallas, Texas. Many of my art was inspired from these to amazing bands CD art. I had this blog on Century Media and it blueprinted my journey on finding my favorite metal genre. There are so many metal bands and they are just not popular in America like they are in other parts of the world. That goes for many bands like Insane Clown Posse of the Grateful Dead. You say you like The Grateful Dead and people judge you wrongly for that. You say you like Insane Clown Posse and you are judged as a violent gang member, by some; now a days. That is all politics though and this blog is about art only. It is all just music, that is all it is. Like John Lennon said it so perfectly in Nobody Loves You "All I can tell you is it's all show biz". Black Metal Music is the forbidden fruit of music; to most people. That's not right. A lot of things that are not right are condoned by most people, these days, but there I go again getting political. Bad for you; is what it is labeled by the majority of people today; for the simple reason, they that just don't understand. In Norway and other country's it is like the favorite music of those country's; it seems like. There are great American Black Metal Bands; even some of the greatest in the world. The first one that comes to my mind, as current is Leviathan from San Francisco his last album was in 2009 though. Don't forget Merciful Fate and Absu who are not just local bands here; but are also some of the best Black Metal Bands in the world, really. Black Metal is very popular in this aria, more than most people around here know. The Century Media blogs, was my journey of buying Cd's which was a very big deal with me at the time, being on a fixed budget and attending college. I look back on it now as if stuff like that almost ruined us financially completely. It all seemed necessary in a weird way back then though the Ninja 1200 cc, the music, the art, all like pieces of a puzzle. My goal was to find my favorite metal music. There are so many genres of Metal music. This is more important to me in the spring. That is why I am writing this today. Spring brings it out of me. Not every spring but this spring it got me going; especially since I have found so much great stuff on YouTube about it. I have been watching them in the morning during my exercises and collecting them in a form of my favorite Black Metal Bands; that I hope to share here as that list grows. I promised a better list in one of my posts here and; plan to deliver it. This is a carefully researched list, that thanks to the internet and YouTube is going to be great. There are some genres of metal I do not like. I do not like grind core for instance. I guess maybe some grind core is good. I like some sludge and drone and folk are ok. I must admit to loving Death Metal but no where near as much as Black Metal. This is a great page for that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_subgenres One band that is so awesome; it is amazing is the Death Metal Band, Canable Corpse. The more repulsive the name of the band, usually means the better the band. It is as if; if you can get your average person not to like you; you can make great music. I like Metal in general though, I like all kinds of music at many different times in my life. I watched on AXS television ; Iron Maiden. I was amazed to watch the hyped audience; in contrast to the concentrated movement of the band members and thought; this is absurd. Look at the audience in videos like Mayhem and you see the concentration on the faces of the audience. This is a real metal audience. Black Metal reminds me most of Classical Music; and if you like classical and Black Metal music you know what I mean. It is also a false judgment to associate Black Metal with neo-Nazism, their are thousands of Black Metal bands and maybe 30 or so bands that are neo-Nazism in that genre and probable in other music genres. There are Jewish Black Metal bands I am sure: simply because, it seems like everyone around the entire earth is into Black Metal. I believe in the fight that many Black Metal artist are involved in today against false judgments, I liken it to Insane Clown Posse fighting their fight to create with out false associations. It is so sad in this day and age that people are so uneducated that they make false judgments that really hurt others. The internet is the cure for this type of thing and should never be used as the catalyst; as it is sometimes. This is another one for the politicians.
I love all the old Masters like Bach Beethoven and Mozart, just as I love Black Metal. How bad for you can that be? They have actually proven Classical Music is good for plants. Iron Maiden was the best thing I have seen on AXS so far though, beside the recent Kiss tour that I mentioned here in this blog a few weeks ago. Not long after I mentioned it here; they got nominated for The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum; click that to see. In making my list on YouTube I found out that two of the bands I have so far, are coming out with new CDs Goragoth and the greatest of all Black Metal bands there is; Mayhem. Mayhem started Black Metal Music in my opinion and many others too. Mayhem was born from controversy and tragedy much like my favorite dance rock band New Order. My Ian Curtis portraits are some of the best I have done. :
I also did a great portrait of Swedish vocalist Per Yngve Ohlin ("Dead") the lead singer of Mayhem when they first started:
The new video of Mayhem in action today is amazing; the band is tight for sure. I can not believe the quality of their concert here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3TYev10sL4 I watched the whole thing and was amazed! How they can even recreate songs from their last album on stage is amazing. I bought that last album it was actually sold in a Black Metal cd case:
The album was released on 23 April 2007. It charted at #12 in Norway, making it the band's highest charting album yet. There is a limited edition version of the album that comes in a metal case that is limited to a production of 3000 I traded it in. They seem to reinvent Black Metal Music with every new CD they create. :
Esoteric Warfare is the upcoming fifth studio album by the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, scheduled to be released via Season of Mist on 6 June 2014 in Europe and Asia and on 10 June 2014 in North America. It is the first album to feature Teloch on guitar since Blasphemer's departure from the band in 2008. . This is the magic of Mayhem. When you are the greatest you are the greatest. They change band members and are even better than ever. Mayhem are miracle workers to be sure; when it comes to line up changes.
Black Metal Music is a acquired taste. Not everyone likes it. If everyone says they like it like the Iron Maiden show I saw on AXS, you really have to doubt their sincerity. What ever I thought of the Iron Maiden special; it still inspired me to do this cool drawing of Eddy and it had drawings of my paintings in too. I have drawn Eddy so may times in my art, most of you could not tell because I change it so much and blend it in. I even did Eddy art back in 1988 of Eddy as the Tracker logo guy. Black Metal is not a pop sensation, it is a strict specific art form and I love it. It is not something you scream about like the Beatles invasion. Lol. It takes concentration to enjoy it, like classical music.
If you can find things in life that no one else likes (it seems like); than you should hold on tight to that in my opinion. Don't let anyone take that from you, that is what makes you great.
Here is my list so far of the Worlds Greatest Black Metal Bands Of All Time! The greatest the world has ever known! Also some favorite CD art, as well as the YouTube Links that have inspired me to do all this work:
Now for something all us guys love to love that our mom's and wife's hate; heavy metal music! This is the strictest hard core of the hardcore! This list is in order and I may ad to it latter; but it is so complete now; it really does not need it. This is in the words of one of my favorite albums "Hotter Than Hell"!
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| Boy did my mom hate Kiss; when they got popular. This took allot of work so enjoy: |
Here is my top 20 Worlds Greatest Black Metal Bands Of All Time! The greatest the world has ever known! Also some favorite CD art, as well as the YouTube Links that have inspired me to do all this work:
01 Mayhem
Some say Mayhem started Black Metal; I personally agree. I know more about this band than I want to. They did not give up, and to hear them now is like hearing the unreal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3TYev10sL4 This is one of the best things I ever saw on YouTube. What a concert!
02 Emperor
This is the CD that made me a Black Metal Fan forever when I bought it in 1999.
03 Gorgoroth
Undisputed Kings of Black Metal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m8BkcIzG7M saw this when it first came out in the middle of my Black Out series of paintings.
05 Bathory
It was a sad day when Quorthon died, he will be missed.
05 Dimmu Borgir
A lot of Metal fans like these guys not just Black Metal fans.
06 Darkthrone
This art is ridiculously cool!
07 Carpathian Forest
Old fashioned Black Metal with regal royalty that few can match.I discovered this CD at CD Source, it just looked really special and I was right. Not bad finding a CD and judging it on just how it looked. The CD was Black Shining Leather.
08 Marduk
Lot's of stuff from this popular band on YouTube. Any band like this, that puts a tank on the cover of it's CD; deserves your attention.
09 Deathspell Omega
The French rock Black Metal with a vengeance. The special effects are amazing and will actually scare you if you are off guard.
10 Impaled Nazarene
Every one loves these guys.
11 Dark Funeral
Love this stuff!
12 Satanic Warmaster
This guy should be a millionaire instead of obscure.
13 Inquisition
Another obscure band that should not be.
14 Katharsis
Amazing and unforgiving black metal from a three piece band.
15 Funeral Mist
Masterpiece after masterpiece of the highest refinement.
16 Dodheimsgard
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Vicotnik and Aldrahn performed guest vocals on the first Dimmu Borgir album. They are unbelievable.
17 Mercyful Fate
From my County and proud of it!
Lots of official stuff from this super popular band. King Diamond from Frisco, Texas is the lead singer. This band is addicting!
18 Nattefrost
Nattefrost is Norwegian for "nightfrost." Steeped in true Black Metal. I was shocked to find this in CD Warehouse.
19 Tsjuder
There are not many that top the quality of these guys. They play live what few do in the studio.
20 Akercocke
What happened to these geniuses?
May 16 2014:
I found this cool wallpaper. I am really excited about this album and it the art work is amazing. I would love to tackle a project like this:
I would like to ad 4 more bands to my Greatest Black Metal Bands of all time:
Morbid Angel is not a Black Metal band but since they are so cool I am adding them any way. Morbid Angel is number 21 in the top 24 of the worlds greatest Black Metal bands; even though they are Death Metal. I love this band, the guitar riffs are amazing. I was in CD Warehouse in Plano and they had 2 used CDs of this great band one was a 2 CD issue of Heretic. I did not know if I should buy it or not so I asked the attendant there what he thought. His eyes got real wide and he said that Morbid Angel was the first metal band that he liked and they were awesome. There is something about the first metal band you like. I made this because of my first band:
Heretic is the seventh studio album by the Florida death metal band Morbid Angel. I also got Domination that day. That was it I became a Morbid Angel fan for life.
I latter was lucky enough to find this used CD at Cd Warehouse and the art has been the subject of some of my art:
21 Morbid Angel
Unlike most of the bands I like Morbid Angel is extremely popular all over the world and rightfully so check out this guitar solo in the is awesome YouTube video. Go to 29 minutes in this video to see what I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr_MvlrTyvc This guitar is amazing and this guitar player Trey Azagthoth has got to be one of the greatest in the world.
Morbid Angel is an American death metal band based in Tampa, Florida. UK music magazine Terrorizer ranked Morbid Angel's 1989 debut Altars of Madness first in its list "Top 40 greatest death metal albums". Decibel Magazine also rated guitarist Trey Azagthoth as the number one "death metal guitarist ever"
Also check out these great links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYdfsZRURF0 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0cn5iAQjbY
Next is another very popular band but also is not a Black Metal band but who were the first bands to coin the phrase Black Metal.
Venom are an English heavy metal band that formed in 1979 in Newcastle upon Tyne.[1] Coming to prominence towards the end of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, Venom's first two albums—Welcome to Hell (1981) and Black Metal (1982)—are considered a major influence on thrash metal and extreme metal in general.[1] Venom's second album proved influential enough that its title was used as the name of an extreme metal subgenre: black metal
I love Venom because they have been around since I was in my early 20's but they are still making really awesome music today. I think this band sounds way better now than when they did in the 1980's and that is saying a lot. I think most bands start out making their greatest music. This band seems to keep getting better as they get older. I hope that can apply to me as a artist.
22 Venom
here are some great Venom videos on YouTube:
The next band is also not a Black Metal band but they might as well be. I have always hated Slayer because when ever I tell someone I think might like metal music; I do not like Black Metal music, I love it, they always say well I like Slayer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slayer seems like the only popular metal band that everyone that likes metal says they like. I remember when I first bought my first Slayer CD I thought what's the big deal, yeah they are hardcore for sure but so isn't a lot of bands. I learned over the years to really look up to this band. A band as cool as Slayer and as popular as Slayer is so unigu I must ad them as 23 on my top Black Metal bands even though they are a Thrash Metal Band like Hellhammer:
Hellhammer was an influential extreme metal band from Switzerland, active during 1981–1984. They are regarded as a key influence on black metal
Plus I am proud to say like Morbid Angel; Slayer is from my country USA
Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King.[1] Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release Reign in Blood,[2] and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax.[3] Slayer has never publicly revealed its worldwide sales, however between 1991 and 2004, the band sold more than 3.5 million albums in the U.S.[4]
Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King.[1] Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release Reign in Blood,[2] and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax.[3] Slayer has never publicly revealed its worldwide sales, however between 1991 and 2004, the band sold more than 3.5 million albums in the U.S.[4]to.
here is a great Slayer YouTube link:
23 Slayer
The last new entry I am making is a true Black Metal aficionado; Taake:
Taake (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈtoːkə]) is a Norwegian black metal band, formed in 1993 in Bergen by Hoest (then-known as Ulvhedin) under the name Thule. "Taake" is the old spelling of the Norwegian word "tåke", meaning "fog". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taake
Taake is the way all Black metal should sound! It is true Black Metal! Norwegian Black Metal is true Black Metal! Always has been always will be.
24 Taake
Here is one of those things I wish I did not know about my favorite Black Metal bands and a good example of how they have to fight the uneducated public about who they are.:
In 2006, Hoest was imprisoned for a violent assault.[1]
In March 2007, during a concert at Essen in Germany, Hoest appeared on stage with a swastika painted on his chest.[2] In Germany, the use of the swastika is strictly forbidden by law (§ 86a StGB), and the remainder of Taake's German concerts were cancelled. Following the incident, Hoest stated on the Taake website:
[...] we truly apologize to all of our collaborators who might get problems because of the Essen swastika scandal (except for the Untermensch owner of that club; you can go suck a Muslim!)[3]
On January 21st, 2008, Hoest stated on the Taake website:
I’ve clearly stated that Taake is certainly not a political nazi-band, yet some people seem to still insist that we are...
here are some great Taake YouTube links:
