Glad to hear it - check out
Graven for more music along similar lines.
I'm into the faster, more aggressive bands of the genre, but good ones seem to be much less common these days. Back in the 90s when I paid more attention to the scene, BM used to be quite evenly spread across the three basic styles: fast, epic/symphonic, or mid-paced/depressive. Maybe I'm just out of the loop, but there seem to be far fewer good examples of fast BM bands these days. They exist, but they tend to be much more generic and less interesting. On the other hand, there are a plethora of impressive and creative mid-paced bands out there, but I'm not really into that side of the genre.
If you like 'Salvation', you should definitely check out Funeral Mist's first release 'Devilry'; as well as
Triumphator's 'Wings of Antichrist', and
Marduk's 'Plague Angel'. Arioch's creative presence is less pronounced in the latter two bands, but those albums are still sufficiently similar to 'Salvation' to provide some compensation for all the Funeral Mist albums that were never made. You might like some of Marduk's earlier output too ('Panzer Division Marduk', 'Nightwing'). Also if you don't mind NS stuff you'd probably love Ad Hominem.
