Who is the ultimate black metal band?

[Drew K]

Venom are the ones who gave the genre its name.

and yes Big3.

[Classy Clarissa]

DIMMU ARE BLACK METAL AS ARE MAYHEM.
I met the guys from Mayhem on there Australian tour with the band I roadie for (Chalice) and they said they considered Dimmu Borgir as well as themselves black metal. The Mayhem boys are really nice guys funnily enough lol

[poisonkisses4me]

Devil Driver (although they aren't really black metal) THis band is sweet I have their self titled album and the next 1 looks sweet. Listening to "Hold Back the Day" from their newest Cd wich hasn't been released yet, I think it hasn't.

[cocoli]

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[hbkisdead]

Right on!!!! Bad brains too.

[Pidds]

mave black/death metal band is Dimmu Borgir.
reason, Dimmu Borgir besides being really heavy they have an orchestra playing in some of their stuff, not always a full orchestra but harps and pianos and all that stuff. They mix heavy with calm and it sounRAB f666ing nice. Check out Mourning Palace and Perfectiopn or Vanity and you'll see what i mean. The drumming is prety sweet to.

[Mommy-2-Be]

Living Color

[Reba Leung]

Cannibal Corpse.
Cenotaph.
Cradle of Filth.
Cryptopsy.
Deicide.
Dimmu Borgir.
Immortal.
Kreator.
Mayhem.
Medagh.
Morbid Angel.
Opeth.
Satyricon.

for some reason, i never bothered with Gorgoroth or Burzum. but Satyricon is so far my favorite.

[TFletch]

neither Children of Bodom nor Cannibal Corpse are black metal...

i don't care for most black metal, and i'd have to say that Emperor is my favorite.

[DeathMetalKicksAss]

Dimmu Borgir isn't black metal. and I guess i should clarify. the only original meraber of Mayhem still in the band is Hellhammer the drummer. They've changed too.

Black Metal uses inverted power chorRAB, a complete lack of melody, and utterly blasphemous lyrics. Dimmu Borgir fulfills one of those criteria. if anything DB can be considered a cross between Death Metal and Industrial. I like some of the string arrangements but can't stand the voice nor the lyrics (not that you can hear them anyway)