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Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, [13] [14] [15] heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw ( lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphasis on atmosphere.
- Early to mid-1980s, England, Scandinavia
- Venom - Black Metal. (Neat, 1982) Not only did this faux-Satanic British power-trio's second album coin the name of a new genre; it also inspired an ultra-violent, nihilistic ideology that inspired the band's Norwegian successors to burn churches and commit murder.
- Bathory - Bathory. (Black Mark, 1984) This cult Swedish studio band took the lo-fi shittiness of Venom and added icy Norse paganism to the garbled mix. Written and coproduced by vocalist-guitarist Quorthon (who died in 2004), Bathory's homonymous debut also features drummer Jonas Åkerlund, who went on to direct videos for both Madonna and U2 (plus the 2002 crystal meth flick Spun), not to mention the forthcoming controversial Lords of Chaos movie.
- Hellhammer - Apocalyptic Raids. (Noise, 1984) Before vocalist-guitarist Tom G. Warrior formed Celtic Frost with bassist Martin Ain, he was the leader of another Swiss metal trio called Hellhammer.
- Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky. (Peaceville, 1991) This Norwegian duo's second album marks drummer-lyricist Fenriz and vocalist-guitarist Nocturno Culto's defection from the traditional death-metal territory of Soulside Journey to the chilling realm of "unholy black metal."
- Watain – Casus Luciferi (2003) It really was quite something when Watain stepped onto the stage at London's much missed Verge in March 2004 for their first gig on UK soil.
- Deathspell Omega – Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice (2004) Where once the French black metal scene revelled in primitiveness (and, indeed, such pleasantness as sending people dead rats in the post), with Deathspell Omega it showed it could also boast a wealth of depth and intelligence.
- Nachtmystium – Instinct: Decay (2006) While in Europe black metal found itself an underground foothold reasonably quickly in the ’90s, in America things were very different.
- Blut Aus Nord – The Work Which Transforms God (2003) “Blut Aus Nord is an artistic concept. We don’t need to belong to a specific category of people to exist.
- Venom – Black Metal
- Mayhem – de Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
- Enslaved – Eld
- Cradle of Filth – Cruelty and The Beast
- Alcest – Écailles de Lune
Although the black metal manifesto was formalised by the “inner circle” of the 90s Oslo scene, it by no means invented it; 80s inspirations like Bathoryand Venom are nowadays worshipped as the first wave of black metal. The latter iconoclasts had the strongest impact on the genre to come – and not just because it took its name from their raw-as-red...
Mayhem’s debut is the scariest metal album of all time. Even without context, it’s a chilling listen, defined by its icy tremolo picking and screeching hymns to the dark side. But then you learn the backstory. The band were the nucleus of Norwegian black metal. Guitarist Øystein “Euronymous” Aarseth defined its sound, vocalist Per “Dead” Ohlin inve...
After Euronymous died in 1993, the Norwegian black metal scene sonically splintered. Immortal built their lyrical landscape of Blashyrkh and delved deeper and deeper into old-school metal. Emperor grew in their symphonia and technicality. Ulver flourished into an industrial jazz post-rock thing, because why not? Meanwhile, Enslaved became the band ...
Between Dusk And Her Embrace and Cruelty And The Beast, Dani Filth’s macabre cabaret courted the mainstream by generating as many headlines as Norwegian black metal, but killing 100% less people. Two fans were arrested for wearing that ‘Jesus Is A Cunt’ shirt in 1997 and '98, inspiring widespread scrutiny. Like Iron Maiden amidst the ‘satanic panic...
Stéphane “Neige” Paut was just a kid with a dream. Literally. When he was young, the Alcest mastermind had repeated visions of a blissful landscape, which were so vivid that he believes they were flashes of a life before life. Neige’s MO for his band is to bring the sound of that personal paradise into reality. The musician was also a child of the ...
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- Zeal & Ardor - Zeal & Ardor. ‘Black metal meets black spiritual music.’ Bottle it, flog it for all it’s worth. When Zeal & Ardor’s debut, Devil Is Fine, slithered into 2017’s end-of-year lists, we’d heard nothing like it: centuries-old slave chants blasphemed by black metal tremolo, bubbling electronica, dusty blues, Gothenburg melodies, and baroque Nick Cave-iness.
- Imha Tarikat - Hearts Unchained: At War With A Passionless World. Sonically superior and even more explosive than its predecessors, Hearts Unchained – At War With A Passionless World may prove to be too dark, too intense, for mainstream consumption, but Satan will surely find a way.
- Watain - The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain. On their latest, Watain resume their impious evolution, though the growth is subtle. Ecstasies In Night Infinite announces the album’s murderous intent with a firestorm of blastbeats and buzzsaw riffs, building to a dizzying, Slayer-esque solo.
- Abbath - Dread Reaver. Three albums into his nominal solo career, it now seems a wonder that Abbath spent so long grimacing under the constraints of Immortal; he’s since found a multitude of new voices to inhabit.
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Dec 1, 2021 · 10. Noctule - Wretched Abyss. Making the leap over to black metal from her day job as chief-snarler in post-hardcore heroes Svalbard, Serena Cherry's one-woman black metal project announced their arrival unto the world with a sense of sweeping grandeur fit for the fantastical landscapes it was inspired by.
Aug 9, 2017 · Top 30 Black Metal Albums of All Time. Joe DiVita Published: August 9, 2017. Moonfog / Century Media / Osmose / New Renaissance / Under One Flag / Nuclear Blast / Norma Evangelium Diaboli ...
