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The genre so committed to atmosphere it burned down actual churches.
means A subgenre of heavy metal music marked by shrieked vocals, raw lo-fi production, fast tremolo-picked guitars, and dark, often anti-Christian or pagan themes.
from The name was minted by the British band Venom, whose 1982 album 'Black Metal' gave both the title and the attitude to the movement. 'Black' here points to the genre's obsession with darkness, evil, and the occult — a tradition stretching back through the 'black arts.' The style was forged in the first wave by bands like Venom, Bathory, and Mercyful Fate, then turned colder and more extreme by the Norwegian scene of the early 1990s, which earned the genre its infamous reputation.
- corpse paint
- Black-white face paint signaling death, not glam
- church arsons
- Norwegian scene torched dozens of medieval stave churches
- lo-fi pride
- Bad production is a deliberate aesthetic choice
- true origins
- Named after a 1982 Venom album
- blast beats
- Drums hammer fast enough to blur the bars
burzum — norwegian project by varg vikernes, pioneered tremolo-picked guitar style from 1991
mayhem — norwegian band founded 1984, defined the genre with album 'de mysteriis dom sathanas' 1994
darkthrone — norwegian duo, released 'a blaze in the northern sky' 1992, defined second-wave black metal
emperor — norwegian symphonic black metal band, 'in the nightside eclipse' 1997 landmark album