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- DictionaryBlack met·al/blak ˈmedl/
noun
- 1. a type of heavy rock music having lyrics that deal with Satan and the supernatural.
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Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphasis on atmosphere. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms. During the 1980s, several thrash metal and death metal bands formed a prototype for... Wikipedia