51 Facts About Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.

The early Norwegian black metal scene developed the style of their forebears into a distinct genre.

Norwegian-inspired black metal scenes emerged throughout Europe and North America, although some other scenes developed their own styles independently.

Some newer black metal bands began raising their production quality and introducing additional instruments such as synthesizers and even orchestras.

Traditional black metal bands tend to favor raspy, high-pitched vocals which include techniques such as shrieking, screaming, and snarling, a vocal style influenced by Quorthon of Bathory.

Related searches

Death growls, common in the death metal genre, are sometimes used, but less frequently than the characteristic black metal shriek.

For Satanist black metal artists, "Black metal songs are meant to be like Calvinist sermons; deadly serious attempts to unite the true believers".

Some doom Black metal-influenced artists' lyrics focus on depression, nihilism, introspection, self-harm and suicide.

Many have claimed that black metal was originally intended only for those who were part of the scene and not for a wider audience.

Vocalist Gaahl said that during its early years, "Black metal was never meant to reach an audience, it was purely for our own satisfaction".

Use of corpse paint in the black metal imagery was mainly influenced by the American 1970s rock band Kiss.

In 1990 and 1991, Northern European Black metal acts began to release music influenced by these bands or the older ones from the first wave.

Second wave of black metal began in the early 1990s and was spearheaded by the Norwegian black metal scene.

Black metal was found with slit wrists and a shotgun wound to the head.

In 1992, members of the Norwegian black metal scene began a wave of arson attacks on Christian churches.

Black metal's body was found outside the apartment with 23 cut wounds—two to the head, five to the neck, and sixteen to the back.

Black metal says that Euronymous had plotted to stun him with an electroshock weapon, tie him up and torture him to death while videotaping the event.

Black metal said Euronymous planned to use a meeting about an unsigned contract to ambush him.

Black metal was re-arrested shortly after while driving a stolen car with various weapons.

Black metal scenes emerged on the European mainland during the early 1990s, inspired by the Norwegian scene or the older bands, or both.

John Serba of AllMusic commented that their first album "made waves in the early black metal scene, putting Cradle of Filth on the tips of metalheads' tongues, whether in praise of the band's brazen attempts to break the black metal mold or in derision for its 'commercialization' of an underground phenomenon that was proud of its grimy heritage".

Some black metal fans did not consider Cradle of Filth to be black metal.

Black metal said they were "not necessarily the best German releases, but they all kicked off something".

Newer black metal bands began raising their production quality and introducing additional instruments such as synthesizers and even full-symphony orchestras.

Melechesh began as a straightforward black metal act with their first foray into folk metal occurring on their 1996 EP The Siege of Lachish.

Related searches

Janaza, believed to be Iraq's first female black metal artist, released the demo Burning Quran Ceremony in 2010.

Snorre Ruch of Thorns, on the other hand, has said that modern black metal is "too narrow" and believes that this was "not the idea at the beginning".

Since the 1990s, different styles of black metal have emerged and some have melded Norwegian-style black metal with other genres:.

Ambient black metal is a style of black metal that relies on heavy incorporation of atmospheric, sometimes dreamy textures, and is therefore less aggressive.

Blackened death metal is commonly death metal that incorporates musical, lyrical or ideological elements of black metal, such as an increased use of tremolo picking, anti-Christian or Satanic lyrical themes and chord progressions similar to those used in black metal.

Blackened death metal bands are more likely to wear corpse paint and suits of armour, than bands from other styles of death metal.

Examples of blackened death metal bands are Belphegor, Behemoth, Akercocke, and Sacramentum.

Melodic black-death is a genre of extreme metal that describes the style created when melodic death metal bands began being inspired by black metal and European romanticism.

War metal is an aggressive, cacophonous, and chaotic subgenre of blackened death metal, described by Rock Hard journalist Wolf-Rudiger Muhlmann as "rabid" and "hammering".

War Black metal bands include Blasphemy, Archgoat, Impiety, and Bestial Warlust.

Industrial black metal is a style of black metal that incorporates elements of industrial music.

Post-black metal is an umbrella term for genres that experiment beyond black metal's conventions and broaden their sounds, evolving past the genre's limits.

Psychedelic black metal is a subgenre of black metal which employs the usage of psychedelic elements.

Raw black metal is a subgenre that seeks to amplify the primitive qualities of the second wave of black metal, by giving priority to its lo-fi production values.

Symphonic black metal is a style of black metal that incorporates symphonic and orchestral elements.

Unblack metal is a subgenre that promotes Christianity through its lyrics and imagery.

The first unblack metal record, Hellig Usvart by Australian artist Horde, was a provocative parody of Norwegian black metal.

Many black metal bands are Satanists and see Satanism as a key part of black metal.

Black metal tends to be misanthropic and hostile to modern society.

The black metal scene tends to oppose political correctness, humanitarianism, consumerism, globalization and homogeneity.

Related searches

Aaron Weaver from Wolves in the Throne Room said: "I think that black metal is an artistic movement that is critiquing modernity on a fundamental level, saying that the modern world view is missing something".

Black metal has been likened to Romanticism and there is an undercurrent of romantic nationalism in the genre.

Black metal was originally a term for extreme metal bands with Satanic lyrics and imagery.

One of the few exceptions was Mercyful Fate singer and Church of Satan member King Diamond, whom Michael Moynihan calls "one of the only performers of the '80s Satanic Black metal who was more than just a poseur using a devilish image for shock value".

However, with his third and fourth albums, Under the Sign of the Black metal Mark and Blood Fire Death, he began "attacking Christianity from a different angle", realizing that Satanism is a "Christian product".

Black metal saw Satanism as "an introduction to more indigenous heathen beliefs".