Ved Buens Ende (Who put Jazz in my black metal?!!)

This is a really awesome band , they kind of combine structural elements of jazz and avant garde music with textural and sonic qualities of black metal.

http://www.last.fm/music/Ved+Buens+Ende



"Ved Buens Ende started as a trio with Carl-Michael (drums, vocals), Vicotnik (guitars, vocals) and Skoll (bass) in Norway's capitol Oslo in 1994. They released one demo entitled Those Who Caress the Pale which was well received and the band got signed on to Misanthropy Records where they released their first and only full-length Written in Waters a year later featuring vocals by Lill Katherine Stensrud."

Very good stuff, check out their only studio album, "Written in Waters".

As if Black metal wasn't pretentious enough

Written in waters is really a great album, although i rarely listen to it, their songs tends to pop up in my mind while i listen to other black metal bands. It could be a particular section of a song where it just makes me think that Ved Buens Ende captured that essence/atmosphere whatever it is way better. Not my favourite black metal album however, because it hardly is one, that would be Opus Nocturne followed closely by In the nigthside eclipse and Under the sign of hell

Jazzy Black Metal....Hell if it worked for Death Metal, then why not Black?