[GarythePotato]

Officially my second favourite band next to Queen, and for all the right reasons! Do we have any other fans of them here at the forums?

[Matt_C]

Not anymore, but I used to be a BIG fan. I was lucky enough that many many years ago, a band I was in played a gig with them - they headlined, well, co-headlined with Hecate Enthroned, and my band was about 6th on the bill (was an all-dayer death and black metal showcase, I think ten bands in total) so I got to meet them all and get a few signatures and share a couple beers! Actually very cool guys, and this was before they got into the mainstream (I think Dusk and Her Embrace had only been out for a couple months, so it was 96/97-ish)

Not my cup of tea anymore, didn't like the direction they took, nor the line up changes, and to be fair I just went off that type of metal (tho I still like to listen to a bit of Emperor and early Dimmu Borgir)

[GarythePotato]

Originally Posted by Matt_C

Not anymore, but I used to be a BIG fan. I was lucky enough that many many years ago, a band I was in played a gig with them - they headlined, well, co-headlined with Hecate Enthroned, and my band was about 6th on the bill (was an all-dayer death and black metal showcase, I think ten bands in total) so I got to meet them all and get a few signatures and share a couple beers! Actually very cool guys, and this was before they got into the mainstream (I think Dusk and Her Embrace had only been out for a couple months, so it was 96/97-ish)

Not my cup of tea anymore, didn't like the direction they took, nor the line up changes, and to be fair I just went off that type of metal (tho I still like to listen to a bit of Emperor and early Dimmu Borgir)

WOAH! That's friggin' awesome ! Do you have any pictures from that time or is that asking for too much? :P. Yeah, I don't like their new stuff. I don't listen to anything after the Midian era.

[Geege]

Big fan here of CoF. Although not of my favourite bands, I have virtually all of their albums, but like their earlier albums than their latest. My favourite album is Cruelty and the Beast and was during the time I got really into black metal. Before this was I only into death metal and thrash.

I've seen them live a few times. I remember once I think it was 1998 I saw them in the Corporation Club in Sheffield and Dani kept swearing and cursing about the crappy PA system

I don't listen to them much anymore, sometimes I will put on The Principles of Evil Made Flesh and remember how well they have progressed musically as a band from their early raw blacken/death metal sound. Just like Gothic by Paradise lost, I loved the way they incorporated female vocals into their music and sang about gothic themes different to just Norwegian folklore, Norse paganism, satanism, war, like other black metal bands at the time, (early Enslaved, Immortal and Marduk for example)

[sh18]

Never been a huge fan but a friend of mine is (of the older stuff anyway) so he told me to listen to a few albums. They do grow on you after a few listens. I actually prefer the more mainstream stuff although I do like Midian but the really really old stuff sounds terrible. I think Nymphetamine is the best album, musically & lyrically, they've ever done.