Non-Black Metal Projects by Black Metal Acts

Inspired by listening to the excellent Gorgoroth side project Wardruna. Especially interested in more stuff of this folk-y, ambient nature (a la Storm, Wongraven, etc.) Am I sort of correct in assuming that Mortiis is the direct precursor to this kind of thing?

Please do not turn into thread about Ulver. Thanks!

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Alcest! Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde! One of the best dreampop/shoegaze records of the decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU9DQzdPAyM

A school mate of mine used to be in a metal band that later on morphed into this. I don't think they do metal anymore, though.

That Wardruna album is awesome. Shame you don't want to talk about Ulver, because Shadows of the Sun was the first thing to pop into my head when I read the question.

I would love to hear more like this Wardruna too.

Debatable but calling it

http://www.metallibrary.ru/bands/discographies/images/celtic_frost/pictures/88_cold_lake.jpg

I think the implication is that Ulver are a universally-known cliche of this, and that other, more obscure stuff is sought. Also the implication was that folk like me might turn up and be all ULVER ULVER ULVER for 200 posts. XD

I didn't want to turn this thread into another endless stupid argument about Ulver (let's continue not, please.)

There's no argument to be had!

Anyway.

Dodheimsgard kinda lurch from BM into electro-pop-metal, often within one song. They count?

Sure. Was still kind of hoping to get more in the vein of Wardruna/Wongraven than Arcturus/Dodheimsgard though.

Here's a thread: bands that start out as black metal but get bored with it and go insane

See that's why I was very specific. ;-) I don't really care so much about the insane bands.

Well there's Fenriz' space ambient stuff, and Aghast, and Abruptum, and Darken's medieval soundtrack stuff as Lord Wind, and generally a lot of the early 90s Cold Meat Industry stuff that all the Norwegian/Swedish BM dudes were into (and vice versa). And a bit later all the metalheads-playing-neofolk bands on Prophecy Productions (Tenhi, Of The Wand And The Moon, Hagalaz Runedance, Empyrium, Naervaer, Stille Volk)

LOVE this album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDJ1wFtoJZ4

i like some of tchort's green carnation stuff too. prog-metal. it's not for everyone though. long-ass meandering stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr2VPK399FQ

and i like some of the bizarro stuff that fleurety has put out. again, not for everyone. and some of its no even for me!

"Fenriz' space ambient stuff"

Is this under his own name? I've heard the Isengard record and it doesn't strike me as space ambient.

Any of those recommended, Siegbran? You like the Storm record, right?

*scanning metal-archives* Or is it this Neptune Tower's thing? From a review: "There was a period in the mid-90s when it seemed that every black metal musician had to have his ambient or faux-medieval project. Let's be frank: most of this stuff was terrible and is best forgotten by everyone."

i don't even know what to say about that last fleurety album. it's um, unique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nShumXeEAjE

That cover is just. . . awful.

Oh and not to forget this:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_qdKdPwVzF-I/SdtddI-VQ1I/AAAAAAAAAvo/nyIW8NZVQEc/s320/Ice+Ages+-+This+Killing+Emptiness.jpg
(one of my fave album covers)

Neptune Towers is 100% Klaus Schulze worship, nothing medieval or folk at all. If you like 70s synth drones like Tangerine Dream it's not too bad.

then there is always Siegbran's favorite band, Kovenant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48IWzAWzxB0

hahaha, just kidding!

There are some side-projects by Les Legions Noires which fit the bill, notably Moevot. As with all their stuff, it's super lo-fi, and apparently recorded in one take. By vampires.

"If you like 70s synth drones like Tangerine Dream it's not too bad."

I do, but also have 70s synth drone records by Tangerine Dream...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtMm7c0BKAo

And of course this, one of the most disturbing records on earth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_idNE-oZBZA

how about a black metal act that makes an album that is even MORE black metal! um, anyway, the new album by Malfeitor Fabban (by his group Malfeitor) from Aborym is really good. might be the best olde tyme black metal album i've heard this year.

I do like how Fenriz kept one of the best "Darkthrone" tracks ever (Thornspawn Chalice) for his Isengard solo project as if to make it very clear who's the real genius in the band.

oh, speaking of which, i just reviewed Fenriz's stoner doom project Valhall. recorded in 2000, but just now released on Phil Anselmo's label. it's okay. he just plays drums on it.

I like second from the right's shirt:
http://www.metal-archives.com/images/3/5/3/2/3532_photo.jpg

I also like that they all appear to be wearing vests.

Is this what you mean : )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHl_Eprq8Ws&feature=related

I was in a hipster dubstep bar (I have no idea if this is actually what it was - I was in a bar and they were playing Tarantula) in Oslo recently and all of Ulver were in there nodding their heads to the music. Then Necrobutcher from Mayhem came in, had a pint and listened to some dubstep as well.

But the funny thing was, none of them were over the road watching 1349 live.

Next time I talk to a EDM promoter I will try to convince them that we need Fenriz to come and DJ obscure Italo House

Don't forget Chrome Division!