Bal-Sagoth
Although labelled as symphonic black metal, the band considers themselves as "extreme avant-garde".
Bal-Sagoth's music seem more like narrated stories with funky beats, as band-member Byron Roberts incorporates spoken-word vocals in many of their songs.
Lyrics are lengthy, written in more of an essay-form, dealing with concepts such as ancient battles and wars, to floods.
Quote:
[The Forest-King:]
Yes... I behold now the face of the encroaching foe... Hear my oath! You,
clad in gleaming robes of sparkling saffron, engorged with the mindless
adoration of countless thralls who bend the knee in flaccid obeisance...
'neath thine vestments hides the ra nk stench of leprous corruption! Bring not
thine cursed icons into my ancient realm... your words of untruth shall not be
heard here! My steel is honed and thirsting for your life-ichors... aye, and
with my dying breath I'll spit defiance in your face!
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A lyric from the song 'In The Raven-Haunted Forests Of Darkenhold, Where Shadows Reign And The Hues Of Sunlight Never Dance'
My strangest band...