Best of Bergen

My vote for Pogo Pops may be the only one as I suspect most of the votes will go elsewhere :)

There are probably 20 black metal bands on the list (this is from RYM after all....) that I have never ever heard of, but considering black metal fans all over the world have heard of every single Norwegian black metal band, I still included them :)

Geir loves Enslaved so much he included them twice

1. Royksopp
2. Annie
3. Burzum

if I'm wrong then this isn't ILM

Pashmina will give Immortal a vote for sure!

Geir loves Enslaved so much he included them twice

RYM does, that is (And RYM probably does, as RYM is one huge bunch of black metal loving satanists - or at least it seems so at times)

THIS IS A FOLK SONG FROM BERGEN. BERGEN BELSEN. IT IS CALLED TOMORROW I SHALL BE DEAD BECAUSE I WENT OUT WITH A NEW WAVE GIRL EVEN THOUGH I WAS A NORWEGIAN PUNK ROCKER. HERE WE GO WITH THE SONG

Whoever killed the most rival metal guys.

Ungdomskulen just nudge ahead over Erlend Øye, Kings Of Conv, Royskopp, Annie, Ralph Myerz. Can't get on with Sondre Lerche at all.

Voted for Truls Mørk which I suppose is a very un-Geir thing of me to do.
The one thing that strikes me about this list is that I've for some reason managed to not hear Geirr Tveitt's music (at least not as far as I know)
If I could've voted for a pop act as well, it would've been Enslaved, particularly for the three-album streak that started with "Mardraum", after they'd obviously turned into big prog nerds.

It should probably be noted that Covenant = The Kovenant, the crap symph/industrial metal group.

Bjorn Torske. A large number of his records have wormed their way into my head over the years.

Yeah Bjorn is my actual answer cos his album last year was ridiculously good and slept on

I have discovered just a few crucial ommisions here, both Röyksopp related.

Those Norwegians and Alania are both listed as Tromsø acts, but from my knowledge, Brundtland and Lindbæk were Bergen based already by then. So when Röyksopp are included, they should have been too.

Planning to do a Tromsø poll anyway, which will of course include both along with Röyksopp.

IMMORTAL FTW

http://immortal.battlegrim.net/files/wallpapers/immortal-wallpaper06.jpg

"Sons of Northern Darkness" is so awesome.

Well, to each his own. :)

Dude, Geir, it's a great record. Admiteddly, they weren't exactly masters of melody or owt.

Well, some black metal acts may write good melodies too. And then they bury them..... :)

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Tombot got it the wrong way round

Now Tomboy there's a name I forgot.

Anyway, disappointed that there's no love for Magnet. The black metal guys obviously went for the genre's creator. :)