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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The Arsonist
Album - 13 Tracks - Released June 27, 2025

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...And Oceans
Adventum Diaboli
Aethyrien
Amalekim
Ancient Death
Anfauglir
AntropomorphiA
Astray Valley
AthensGoatMafia
Avenger of Blood
Behemoth
Black Winter
Blood Abscission
Bloodguilt
Cain Culto
Coffin Feeder
Coltsblood
Craving
Darkenhöld
Dead Chasm
Derhead
Desolate One
Deviser
Disappear...
Dormant Ordeal
Dudsekop
Exilium Noctis
Faal
Forgotten Ruin
Fragments Of Unbecoming
Gaahls WYRD
Gabestok
Gallows' Eve
Ganlas
Ghost
Ghost Bath
Ghörnt
Hate
Helheim
Hellcrash
Helldrifter
Hidden Mothers
Horrenda
I
Ifernach
Imperishable
In The Woods...
Inhuman 666
Kanonenfieber
Lauren Duffus
Legion of Decadence
Leper Colony
Lhaäd
Lloth
Lord Vampyr
Lorna Shore
Malphas
Mamaleek
Master Death
Memories of a Lost Soul
Midnight
Mjølnir
Morkesis
Mutilator
Nechochwen
Necrophobic
Nekrome
Nightbearer
Nightfall
Obsidian Tongue
Overcast Rain
Pandemia
Patristic
Profanatica
Saevus
Serotonin Syndrome
Seventh
SexMag
Skaphos
Sodom
Striborg
Tardigrade Inferno
Taär
The Stone
Thronum Vrondor
Tribunal
Tuscoma
VARUS
Vader
Veil Of The Serpent
Venator
Vibratacore
Vintervik
Wake
Waxen
XAAR
Zombies To Corruption
devilry
life
Álef Hylliel
Ghost
Powerwolf
Lorna Shore
Sematary
Bleed The Wicked Menace
Sodikken
Cannibal Corpse
Deafheaven
do not resurrect
Mutilator
Dimmu Borgir
Behemoth
Arankai
Cradle Of Filth
SecretiveSuicide
Burzum
Sodom
Bathory
Rotting Christ
Eversor
Alcest
Kanonenfieber
Dissection
Morbid Angel
Deicide
Myrkur
Darkthrone
Venom
8belial
Heldom
Curta'n Wall
Kveld
Moonspell
Vader
Harakiri for the Sky
CALYPSO
Septicflesh
Satyricon
Midnight
Immortal
Kvelertak
Hypocrisy
Bloodbath
Woods Of Ypres
Marduk
Agalloch
Celtic Frost
Finntroll
Mercyful Fate
PATRIARKH
Dismember
Belphegor
Ulver
VARUS
Kerry King
Anaal Nathrakh
Thou
Enslaved
Gaerea
Samael
Elvya
Sadness
Grave Digger
Summoning
Emperor
Hellripper
Gorgoroth
AthensGoatMafia
Sólstafir
Drudkh
Watain
Xasthur
Ellende
Tardigrade Inferno
Dark Funeral
Grima
Scour
Carach Angren
sepulcher.
Borknagar
Possessed
MØL
Thy Catafalque
Sarcófago
Ulcerate
Impaled Nazarene
Spiritworld
Ghost Bath
Eihwar
Melej
Havukruunu
Ihsahn
My Useless Life
Les Discrets
Carpathian Forest
Blut Aus Nord
Nocturnal Depression
Spectral Wound
Mutiilation
Old Man's Child