The book Lords of Chaos is good too. The movie Lords of Chaos on the other hand is the worst movie and biopic ive ever watched 10 mins of.
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Check out the nidrosian scene from early 00s. Incredible stuff.
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I have been heavily involved in the Black/Death metal scene for around a decade currently and got into working with synths this year. Lots of good bands listed here.
Some heavy gems that I reckon have been great releases in the last few years:
BLACK CURSE (US)
CONCRETE WINDS (FIN)
Now when I am trying to build industrial music with Elektron devices I try to create a sort of a Black metal atmosphere and we are planning to work with the vocalist of this band:
SVARTIDAUDI (IS) (disbanded unfortunately)
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So, in the game Starfield thereās black metal playing in some bars. Itās actually great music made by a duo whose project is also called Starfield. This is their first full-length.
I had the pleasure of seeing Endon when they supported SubRosa on a US tour back in like 2018. It was an absolutely wild show. I think they played through that whole album. The keyboardist ended up flinging one of his instruments into the crowd, and the rest of the band were equally energetic - itās easily one of the most energetic, violent performances Iāve ever seen. And then, after the show, they were real chill talking to us afterward at the merch booth.
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Heavy AND Hilarious: Dethklok from Metalocalypse, an animated series.
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That kinda sounds like exactly what I expected, I was absolutely gutted when Etsuo Nagura died and I hadnāt had a chance to see them.
Oh damn, I had no idea he died 
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I wish I could experience black metal for the first time again.
That was such a monumental shift from what Iād known about before, especially at a time when finding new music was mostly word of mouth and collage radio.
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True: finding new music today itās so easy with Spotify and YouTube, but the initial push to the genre came from this forum 
That it so much stuff online that in a couple of weeks my BM library is already big enough to include all the classics more some very good recent productions. Iām planning to write in deep all the reasons why BM itās so good for my ears: it is surely my best musical find in 2023! I wasnāt so fascinated by new music from the first time I discovered The Residentsā¦
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If one uses instagram I highly recommend the account for the Arcane Archivist zine. Very nerdy and deep knowledge in the history of black metal.
Some toughts about black metal and why Iām finding it so intriguing.
Sound
BM is a monolithic noisy drone, there is no air beetween the instruments, the lo-fi production fill the sound field with distorted and fuzzy reverberations. Sound is a dark surface, a cycling sequence of heavy waves, a droning deep vibration, that brings into a ritualistic state of hipnosis.
The dark surface of the monolith is only scraped by screaming voices and sad arpeggios, that draw primitive and minimalistic symbols. The riffs may be brutal or melanconic. Sometimes are brutal and heartbreaking at the same time. The human voice can be the scream of a preacher, the obscure lithany an evil priest or the cry of a suffering soul. We also hear witches and wizards. Everything is very concrete, very materialistic.
Electronic gear is easyly integrated in the wall of sound.
There are no attempts to ornate the songs, not unnecessary triks, not will to show ability in playing. The instruments are merely tools: not virtuosity, not skills. Only a primitive scream.
BM is heavy as Black Sabbath, wild as Motorhead, fast and violent as Slayer, evil as Bathory and Venom, sad as The Cure and Joy Division, iconoclast as punk and hardcore, hipnotic and esotheric as ambient. But it is different than all this stuff, it is something on its own.
Poetry
BM refuses rationality. BMās world is without law, without civilization. No tecnology, no streets, no cityes. There is only a primitive humanity in front of a wild, huge, dangerous nature. There are rocks, woods, lakes, mountains, wild animals. You can feel the energy of waterfalls, the violence of the storms, the voice of the wind. Nature is powerful and scaring, it is full of misteries. Death is everywhere.The only poinf of view of the scared mankind is religion: a pagan, pantheist faith. Mankind believes in magic. But the natureās gods are violent, scary and evil. Satanism, occultism, witchcraft, paganism and pantheism are BMās points of view on the world: all faces of the same religious feeling. Music is a pagan liturgy, as it was in the ancient times. Music is a sacred space, strictly divided from ordinary life. The artist needs to paint his face, to change his name, to wear different clothes to enter the magic circle and celebrate the ritual.
Imagery
BM have strong links with the XIXth centuryās romantic and post-romantic imagery. Huge landscapes, scary mountains, endless skies, tombs in the moonlight (see John Martinās paintings). Satanism, occultism, arcane symbols (see William Blake, Felicien Rops, Franz Von Stuck, Debussy etcā¦). Obsession of the death (see Edward Munch). Ancient pagan suggestions (see Arnold Bocklin).
There is Nietzsche, the Antichrist, the nostalgy of a mithical pre-christian and pagan era.
There is also Lovecraft of course, but only his occult and necrophile side, not the cosmic one: there is not sci-fi in BMās imagery.
BM is a true barbaric movement. Interesting fact: it was born in the end of the XXth century in one of the most civil countries of Europe.
It speaks to the primitive animal that hides behind our civilized dresses.
It is dangerous, because his barbaric and antisocial attitude isnāt a theatrical pose: it is sincere. But for the same reason it is also beautiful and poetic.
To be enjoyed responsibly.
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This is sooo good. Especially the later half, so intense. Have loved them from the Opus Nocturne release
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I love these guys. They are awsome!
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More like post-industrial/noise than metal, but definitely āextremeā I havenāt heard anything this visceral in a while.
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Nice Plutocracy shout out. I havenāt heard them in years.
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Frontierer has been mentioned, I discovered these guys today! Spotify rightfully continued from Car Bomb and into even more punishing territories of mathcore/djent/electronica.
Playing this album on repeat today, a good head cleanser:
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