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The genesis of this exercise lies in the old version of a Swedish metal site called Global Domination. About six years ago, its domain name was statikmajik.com, and it had a recurring feature called “Name that fucken blastbeat”. The site operators would play brief blastbeat passages from songs to drummers, who would comment on the passages and try to identify who played them. This was before the time of streaming audio, so it was a bit surreal to read about blastbeats one couldn’t hear. Sadly, the sands of time have washed over “Name that fucken blastbeat”; not even the Internet Archive retains records of those columns.
So in my own small way, I am paying tribute to those columns with this exercise. Here are 10-second snippets of songs by black metal bands. They are all well-known: household names in the house of black metal.
How many can you identify? Leave your guesses in the comments below. (Only one set of guesses per person, please.) You get one point if you name the band, one point if you name the album, and two points if you name the song. You can guess up until midnight PST, Wednesday, June 8. The winner gets bragging rights, and also gets to pick a black metal album for me to review.
(To the winner of the previous contest, who picked a Christian technical metalcore album for me to review: I have not forgotten about you (although I wish I could). I will get around to writing about that abomination.)
Here’s the catch: You cannot cheat. Now, I know honor is not a primary concern in the realm of stab-your-bandmates-in-the-back-and-also-unarmed-gay-men. But I want to keep this fun and fast. So you can use only the knowledge you have at this very moment. Do not consult any outside source – your friends, your music collection, your song-identifying smartphone app. Of course, with this honor system, I have no way of knowing if you cheat. Just know that if you cheat, I wish you an eternity in hell, where the only thing to listen to is Mortician albums at 128kbps. Trust me, you don’t want that. So don’t cheat, have fun, and leave your guesses below. I’ll post the answers in a week.
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1. Darkthrone
2. Wolves in the Throne Room, it sounds like it’s off Black Cascade
5. Mayhem
6. Naglfar
That’s all I got.
1 darkthrone
2 wolfs in the throne room
3 Mayhem? dont know the song, but sounds very similar
4 not sure
5 Ragnarock?
6 either satyricon or emperor
7 not sure
8 Funeral Mist
9 Averse Sefira
10 Marduk
Not that this has anything to do with anything, but I was pointed in this direction from someone over at my blog and just wanted to say kudos for the link and for reminding me we actually had that “name that fucken blastbeat” thing. I had forgotten all about it. We sure are geniuses still to this day. Cheers.
5 sounds like DSO.
Yeah, 6 is Satyricon.
9 is Immortal.
10 sounds like Frost, so 1349? I don’t really listen to them often.
Wow, I’m nearly a complete failure at this. Pretty sure that number 1 is Darkthrone. I think 2 is Wolves in the Throne Room, I will Lay My Bones Among the Roots and Rocks from Two Hunters. And 9 has to be Immortal, but I can’t place the song right now. The rest? I’m not so sure.
The graphic is hilarious.
Wow, that’s tough! I can only guess, and probably am not right, the following:
1- Darkthrone
10- 1349
Maybe I would do better playing this game with death metal…
1. Liturgy
2. Liturgy
3. Liturgy
4. Liturgy
5. Liturgy
6. Liturgy
7. Liturgy
8. Liturgy
9. Liturgy
10. Liturgy
Logo with central focal points or inward pointing lettering seems to be very popular.
As far as the list, I’m just going to tape Mayhem, Darkthrone and Burzum’s name to a dartboard and throw ten darts.
1. No idea.
2. Agalloch? But not from Marrow of the Spirit.
3. Somebody I don’t like.
4. No idea.
5. Older Deathspell Omega?
6. Nope.
7. Something I expect to recognize once you post the answers.
8. Immortal?
9. I don’t recognize this at all, but it’s the only one that made me *want* to know.
10. Nope.
Hilarious exercise.
1. Darkthrone (something from the “Transilvanian Hunger” LP)
2. ???
3. Marduk (something from “Opus Nocturne”)
4. something old, probably around 1995 ???
5. ???
6. Satyricon (something from “Shadowthrone”)
7. sounds familiar, but… ???
8. Funeral Mist – Circle Of Eyes
9. Immortal – Unsilent Storms In The North Abyss
10. ???
I’m not very confident about most of these, but here are my guesses…
1. Darkthrone. From Translyvanian Hunger.
2. ?
3. Marduk.
4. ?
5. Deathspell Omega
6. Satyricon. From “The Shadowthrone.”
7. Setherial
8. Dark Funeral
9. Immortal. From “Pure Holocaust”
10. Negura Bunget
1. Darkthrone – From Transylvanian Hunger
2. Guessing Wolves in the throne room, perhaps something from Black Cascade since the production’s too clean for previous albums
3. Definitely Marduk – Either from Panzer Division or Opus Nocturne (leaning towards Panzer)
4. Mayhem (from De Mysteriis) or Watain (from RDC). Leaning towards Watain. Mayhem’s bass drum doesn’t sound that clean.
5. No fucking clue… guessing DSO
6. Satryicon, guessing The Shadowthrone
7. Gorgoroth – Antichrist?? Definitely Gorgoroth, don’t know any other album it could be
8. Uhhh… Either Funeral Mist or Burzum (Hvis Lyset Tar Oss). Leaning towards FM (Salvation)
9. Immortal – Pure Holocaust or DFM
10. Sounds like newer 1349. From Revelations?
Was also half-expecting a Liturgy.
I saw Ghost last night in NYC, pretty fucking dope.
Does that count as black metal?
1: Darkthrone
2: Krallice
3: Marduk or Satyricon
4: (no idea)
5: Deathspell Omega
6: (on the tip of my tongue, dammit)
7: Wolves In The Throne Room
8: (no idea)
9: Immortal
10: (no idea)
Me < Trve, apparently.
Every one of those logos would make a great “tramp stamp”
i see ludicra in there! among others.
1. Darkthrone, something of off Transylvanian Hunger.
2. Wolves in the Throne room, I think
3. Sounds like older Marduk.
4. No idea.
5. No idea.
6. No idea.
7. No idea.
8. Funeral Mist, album is Salvation, song might be “Bread to Stone”?
9. Sounds like older Immortal
10. This has gotta be 1349.
I can’t tell the logos apart, and I hate them all.
I like black metal. The horrible logos? Hate.
1. Sounds like Transylvianian-era Darkthrone, though monotonous even by their standards. As if someone took part of Over fjell og gjennom torner and looped it.
2. Sounds like Wolves in the Throne Room, but that might just be because I couldn’t avoid glancing at other comments first.
5. Might be Immortal?
6. Sounds like Mayhem, but not a track I know.
7. Sounds REALLY familiar (and in a way more like Mayhem than 6, but…)
Fuck, this is impossible. My only trve instinct was that #2 is Emperor, since it sounded the most familiar familiar. Seeing as everyone else thinks its Wolves in the Throne Room, whom I’ve never even heard, I’m probably way off base. More proof that I don’t know what I’m talking about, these are all complete guesses:
2. Emperor
3. Gorgoroth
4. Darkthrone (doubtful, in hindsight)
6. Satyricon
Here’s a proposed bonus challenge: stream these on laptop speakers at low volume (like I just did) so you can’t tell modern shit from older shit or modern shit that’s trying to sound old.
1. Darkthrone, early 90s
2. Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade album for sure
3. Marduk
4. Gorgoroth?
5. Deathspell Omega?
6. Satyricon – The Shadowthrone
7. Gorgoroth?
8. Funeral Mist?
9. Immortal?
10. 1349
I’m hearing Emperor, Immortal, Satyricon, Marduk, maybe Behemoth, plus some old Dimmu Borgir (yes, I went there, sorry!), but exactly what’s what? Fuck if I know.
//TB
2. Wolves in the Throne Room- Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog
1. Darkthrone
2. Wolves In The Throne Room
3. Mayhem
4. Behemoth
5. Deathspell Omega
6. Satyricon
7. Emperor
8. Gorgoroth
9. Immortal
10. 1349
1. Darkthrone (something off of Transilvanian Hunger)*
2. Wolves in the Throne Room*
3. early Marduk*
4. Watain – something off Rabid Death’s Curse
5. Not sure, but going to say really early DSO
6. Satyricon*
7. uh…..Gorgoroth?
8. Funeral Mist (no question here)*
9. Immortal – something off Pure Holocaust*
10. 1349 *
*= I’d bet cold hard cash on
OK, these I got…
1) Darkthrone
2) WITTR
3) Marduk
4)
5)
6)Satyricon
7)
8)Funeral Mist
9)
10) 1349
Afterwards, I looked at others’ repsonses. I kicked myself over missing a couple.
3 is absolutely Marduk. it’s an Opus Nocturne song “deme quaden thyrane”
1) Darkthrone, I think it is off of Transylvanian Hunger but not sure which song.
Funeral Mist, Salvation, Circle of Eyes (I think)
2) Wolves in the Throne Room, off of Black Cascade
3) I don’t know but it sounds sort of melodic and triggered, so maybe..Dissection? off of Storm of the Light’s Bane?
4) I don’t know, but the guitar sound sounds like Immortal.
5) No idea, but I’m going to guess Satyricon
6) No idea.
7) No idea.
9) No idea.
10)No idea.
Cool quiz brah!
Do a sludge one! I can recognize most sludge bands on feedback alone
dark throne
wolves in the throne room
3.? satyricon maybe
4. I dont know but I want it
5. heard it but cant remember
6. Satyricon
7. sounds like wolves again, but dont think it is, I like it.
8.?
1. Darkthrone – that was easy
10. 1349 – very recognizable
3. Sounds like Watain – definatly not Mayhem or Dissection
6. Satyricon
2. Agalloch( i think)
4. I feel like I should know this one
7. Really good, Ive read people say gorgoroth so thats pretty cool.
Do a DM one!
1. Darkthrone – I en hall med flesk og mjod (Transilvanian Hunger)
2. No idea.
3. Nope.
4. Watain – Mortem Sibi Consciscere (Rabid Death’s Curse)
5. Deathspell Omega – Alleluia! (Manifestations ‘02)
6. … That one riff every Swedish band wrote at least once.
7. Nothing.
8 – Funeral Mist – Circle of Eyes (Salvation)
9 – Immortal – As Eternity Opens (Pure Holocaust)
10 – Nuh-uh.
This was indeed tough ha ha, don’t think I fared too well.
1. Darkthrone from Transilvanian Hunger
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. Deathspell Omega – Infernal Battles era
6. Satyricon – Shadowthrone
7. ?
8. ?
9. Immortal – Pure Holocaust – Unsilent Storms
10. Antaeus – Blood Libels
am i the only one who thought 4 sounds like something off drudkh’s forgotten legends
1. Darkthrone
2. Wolves in the Throne Room
3.
4. Immortal
5. Deathspell Omega
6. Satyricon
7.
8.
9. Immortal
10. 1349
SPACE INVADERS IST KRIEG!!!
BTW Cosmo, is that not a typo and you really meant Mo’Tician?
http://www.myspace.com/motician
Wow, I had no idea people would dig this idea so much. I’ll certainly try out the suggestions – I hear sludge and death metal, and I’m thinking of doing a grindcore one, too.
Carm – That’s one of the few instances where the black version of something is worse than the white one.
Thought i’d have a go, despite being a bit of a black metal ‘newbie’…. damn that was tough! Only ones I can even make a vague stab at are…
2. Krallice?
3. Er, Emperor?? (fairly wild guess)
5. Immortal (almost certainly wrong looking at everyone else’s guesses!)
9./10. One of these is definitely 1349… I think!
Can we do a ‘name that grind’ game next please? I might actually stand a chance on that one!!!!!!!
I don’t listen to the more typical black metal albums very often, so this is a futile exercise for me. But, I’ll clean up if you do a death/doom version of this.
Thanks for this great post! I would love to hear a sludge version of this!
1. Darkthrone – I En Hall med Flesk og Mod from “Transilvanian Hunger”
2. Enslaved?
3. Gorgoroth?
4. ?
5. Deathspell Omega – something from “Inquisitors of Satan” I think…
6. Satyricon – In the Mist By the Hills from “The Shadowthrone”
7. ?
8.
9. Immortal – from “Pure Holocaust”.. not sure which song… As The Eternity Opens?
10. ?
1. I Wrestled A Bear Once
darkthrone
darkthrone
darkthrone.
will continue it 10 times, atleast then it as one thing right.
shit i laughed so hard as mymom said that they all sound the same, gotta agree. i bet that was the point and now i am seriously gonna do a cd listening and try to find those samples.
not participating on the contest.
i am amused. i am sure they all all darkthrone songs, right? nah atleast one song was emperor and one from satyricon album.
number one is a winner for all of us, so are Darkthrone
I just noticed that the thumbnail version of the above image that’s on the main page, looks a hell of a lot like the old Space Invaders game…
OK, here’s my best guess:
1. Darkthrone
2. Wolves in the Throne Room
3. Taake
4. Taake again?? haha
5. Deathspell Omega
6. Gorgoroth
7. Gorgoroth? I don’t know
8. ??
9. Immortal
10. Marduk? Dark Funeral? Not sure
This is amazingly hard. My best guesses –
1. Darkthrone
2. Emperor
3. Immortal
4. Satyricon
5. Enslaved
6. Dimmu Borgir
7. Gorgoroth
8. Drudkh
9. Abigor
10. Marduk
“I wish you an eternity in hell, where the only thing to listen to is Mortician albums at 128kbps. Trust me, you don’t want that.”
LMFAO! No I certainly would not! As for the songs …don’t know. I’m listening to the new Autopsy right now which kicks ass!
Is 4. Odal? Was listening to the one song I can cope with in the car today.
are you going to post the correct answers to this ’cause it’s really gonna bother me now. I like the other guy’s post ..Every one of those logos would make a great “tramp stamp” LOL
You know, I’d much rather listen to Mortician at lower than 128kbps. That would help take the plastic edge off those tickers he considers drums.
I’m just sad I can’t click fast enough to play them all at once.
1. Darkthrone
2.
3. Marduk
4.
5.
6. Satyricon
7. Gorgoroth
8.
9. Immortal
10. 1349 (?)
1.Darkthrone – I En Hall med Flesk og Mod(Transilvanian Hunger)
2.Wolves in the Throne Room- Hate Crystal(Malevolent Grain)
3.Marduk – Deme Quaden Thyrane(Opus Nocturne)
4.Watain – Mortem Sibi Consciscere (Rabid Death’s Curse)
5.Deathspell Omega – Desecration Master(Inquisitors of Satan)
6.Satyricon- In The Mist By The Hills(The Shadowthrone)
7.Gorgoroth
8.Funeral Mist – Circle of Eyes (Salvation)
9.Immortal – As The Eternity Opens(Pure Holocaust)
10.1349
gorgoroth….azaghal…dimmu borgir…trollskogen…
Fucken difficult
1. Dark Throne, album: Transylvanian Hunger, song: ?
6. Emperor, album: IX Equilibrium, song: ?
8. Dark Throne, album: Panzerfaust, song: ?