Opvs Leviathan - Dark Reborn of Frozen Souls (2003) (Split with Assur (Col))

Genre: Epic Melodic Black Metal
About: This is a really full and epic sounding band from what is essentially a demo, as well as their only release. You will find epic 8-12 minute songs with evolving themes throughout these songs, and raw yet epic vocals and guitars, driving drums... Yet a completely pitiful 32 listeners on last.fm!

This is their only release, a split with "Assur" who I have also never heard of before. Edit: Added Assur because it is pretty awesome as well.

Tagged as "Opus Leviathan" because it is by far the more popular tag on last.fm, but I am not sure which one is correct... Also, for tag police, track titles cut short for who knows why, I fixed it after uploading, sorry.

http://www.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=28659
http://www.last.fm/music/Opus+Leviathan

Track List:
Opvs Leviathan
1. Soulmoon Prevails Eternally 12:28
2. En La Pálida Esfera 04:00
3. Igne Ratvra Renovatvr Integra 09:54
4. Crossing the Paths in the Universal Night 08:04
5. In the Distant Shine His Light 05:44
6. Entrance in the Dawning Black Sun 10:05
Assur (Col)
7. Passage of a Kingdom Lost in Time 08:36
8. Pagan Night 09:15
9. Around the Flaming Black Candle 05:44
10. Through the Shine of the Waterfall 04:48
Total playing time 01:18:38

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Far Beyond - An Angel's Requiem (2005)

Genre: Melodic Black Metal, Speed Metal(ish)
About: Incredibly, this is a one man band. Yet it has one of the most full-sounding black metal atmospheres I have ever heard. And the melodies are simply amazing. I can't describe this properly in words, just download it.

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Mythology - Tepes (2009) (Mythology (US) - Tepes)

Genre: True Raw Epic Black Metal
About: I found out about these guys randomly, one of them was at Summer Slaughter 3 handing out demos. I am glad I had that chance encounter, because this is a really unique band, and that demo is on here as well if you click the Mythology tag at the bottom. That album was more like blackened death metal, or i prefer the term deathened black metal... but this one is pretty much pure black.

Anyway, This band has shown that they are ready to play with the big boys with this demo. It is raw, brutal, while at the same time there are beautiful melodies. It concludes with the epic 9 minute track "The Dragon's Fall". It's technically a demo, but it's 47 minutes long. The production is just raw enough for this type of music. Even if the production was perfect and clear, the music would still be raw. This is so raw it is bleeding. I doubt you will find anything this raw in 2009 or the future, unless perhaps you eat a cow while it's still alive (see tag on bottom). Oh, and an excerpt from Monty Python is used, pretty kvlt. Anyway, why are you still reading this when you could have had it downloaded already?

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Summoning - Let mortal heroes sing Your Fame (2001) (320 kbps mp3)

Genre: Epic Black Metal, atmospheric black metal, Black Metal, Pagan Metal, Melodic Black Metal
About: This is the second most epic album of all time. It still has the same elements and epic feel of the previous album, stronghold, but they experiment a bit by adding things such as suicidal vocals in the chorus of track 2 and samples. It also has somewhat of a more melodic, folk feel.

Track 3 has this repeating spoken part "In the darkness... bind them!" and it fits so perfectly into the music

But my favorite song on the album is probably track 4. It explodes into this epic melodic powerful black riff that almost brings me to tears because it is so perfect.

DOWNLOAD IT NAOW!!!!!1111111

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Summoning - Stronghold (1999) (320 kbps mp3)

Genre: Epic Symphonic Atmospheric Pagan Black Metal
About: It's rather fitting that for my 100th post I have the most epic band and album of all time. The band is heavily inspired by the POEMS of J.R.R Tolkien rather than his books (More specifically this album is based on tales of the Nibelungs, Rhein Gold, Siegfried and Brunhild).

Every song just has this epic feeling like you're riding on the back of a Flaming Minotaur through an infinite battlefield slaying trolls while you're being fired at from a Pirate ship in the middle of a typhoon. Also, they have the best logo ever. (EDIT- I stand corrected.) If your heart is currently beating (or even if it's not) you NEED to hear this album.

More detailed reviews here

(For those wondering, the singer in track 5 is Tania Borsky, Richard Lederer's ex-girlfriend who sings for the band "Die Verbannten Kinder Evas"... that band is not metal but it has a similar epic atmosphere)

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