immortal are fucking awesome. The only black metal band i still listen to, other than carpathian forest. Sons of northen darkness is right up there with albums like abbey road and piper at the gates for me. As for pretentious metalheads, it all depends on what metal. Black metal heads are as bad as numetal heads imo. Grindcore fans are all about the head bangin' and are always too off their faces to have personal feelings of supremacy! Although i understand it's meant to be kvlt, the reason i stopped listening to black was because of the lame arse, raw, necro recordings. It's just an excuse for poor musicianship, then again anyone can learn to tremello in 3 weeks. Don't mean to offend anyone