Black Metal

Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its fast tempo, shrieking vocals, and trebly guitar sound. Emerging in the 1980s in Norway and Sweden, it evolved from the thrash and death metal scenes, with bands like Mayhem and Darkthrone pioneering the sound. The genre's popularity peaked in the 1990s, with a distinctive aesthetic of corpse paint, black clothing, and occult-inspired lyrics. Black metal's cultural significance lies in its rejection of mainstream values, embracing instead a dark, nihilistic worldview. The genre's raw, DIY ethos and emphasis on atmosphere over technicality set it apart from other extreme metal styles. Notable for its use of tremolo picking, blast beats, and shrieking vocals, black metal's sonic intensity is matched by its intense, often provocative, lyrical themes, exploring topics like Satanism, paganism, and existential despair.

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...And Oceans
8belial
Aethyrien
Amalekim
Ancient North
Anfauglir
Angerot
Antaeus
AntropomorphiA
Astray Valley
AthensGoatMafia
Azure Emote
Behemoth
Belenos
Beyond the Agony
Black Winter
Cain Culto
Coltsblood
Craving
Curta'n Wall
Darkenhöld
Darkside Ritual
Dead Chasm
Desolate One
Disappear...
Dordeduh
Dudsekop
Eternal Darkness
Exilium Noctis
Fauna
Forgotten Ruin
Fragments Of Unbecoming
Gaahls WYRD
Gallows' Eve
Ganlas
Ghost Bath
Grim Ox
Hate
Helheim
Hellcrash
Helldrifter
Hemelbestormer
Hidden Mothers
Horrenda
Ifernach
Imha Tarikat
Imperial Crystalline Entombment I.C.E
Inhuman 666
Jordfäst
Kanonenfieber
Lauren Duffus
Legion of Decadence
Leper Colony
Lloth
Lord Belial
Lord Vampyr
Lorna Shore
Mamaleek
Memories of a Lost Soul
Midnight
Mjølnir
Morkesis
Mutilator
Nekrome
Nightbearer
Nightfall
No Point in Living
Obsidian Tongue
Onheil
Pandemia
Patristic
Profanatica
Saevus
Serotonin Syndrome
SexMag
Sigh
Skaphos
Sodom
Soulleech
Stormkeep
Striborg
Tardigrade Inferno
The Martyr
The Stone
Trhä
Trivax
Tuscoma
VARUS
Vader
Vallhard
Veil Of The Serpent
Venator
Vibratacore
Vintervik
Violet Cold
Waxen
XAAR
Zombies To Corruption
devilry
Álef Hylliel
Ghost
Powerwolf
Lorna Shore
Sematary
Bleed The Wicked Menace
Sodikken
Cannibal Corpse
Deafheaven
do not resurrect
Mutilator
Dimmu Borgir
Behemoth
Cradle Of Filth
Arankai
SecretiveSuicide
Sodom
Burzum
Rotting Christ
Bathory
Alcest
Eversor
Kanonenfieber
Dissection
Morbid Angel
Deicide
Myrkur
Venom
Darkthrone
8belial
Heldom
Kveld
Curta'n Wall
Vader
Moonspell
CALYPSO
Harakiri for the Sky
Septicflesh
Midnight
Satyricon
Immortal
Hypocrisy
Kvelertak
PATRIARKH
Antaeus
Mercyful Fate
Woods Of Ypres
Marduk
Agalloch
Celtic Frost
Finntroll
Bloodbath
Dismember
Belphegor
Ulver
VARUS
Thou
Kerry King
Anaal Nathrakh
Enslaved
Gaerea
Samael
Sadness
Summoning
Emperor
Elvya
Grave Digger
Sólstafir
AthensGoatMafia
Gorgoroth
Drudkh
Watain
Hellripper
Tardigrade Inferno
Ellende
Xasthur
Grima
Dark Funeral
Havukruunu
Ghost Bath
Ihsahn
Melej
Eihwar
Carach Angren
Scour
Thy Catafalque
MØL
Possessed
sepulcher.
Borknagar
Spiritworld
Impaled Nazarene
Sarcófago
Ulcerate
Spectral Wound
My Useless Life
Les Discrets
Nocturnal Depression
Blut Aus Nord
Carpathian Forest
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