Black metal music

Black metal
Stylistic origins	Thrash metal death metal hardcore punk
Cultural origins	1980s, England Norway Sweden
Typical instruments	Vocals electric guitar bass guitar drums
Subgenres
Ambient black metal industrial black metal symphonic black metal war metal
Fusion genres
Black 'n' roll black-doom blackened death metal blackgaze pagan metal Viking metal
Regional scenes
France Greece Norway Poland Russia Ukraine United States Sweden
Local scenes
Les Légions Noires Early Norwegian scene
Other topics
Shrieking National Socialist black metal unblack metal

Black metal is a style of extreme 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 and death metal bands formed a prototype for black metal. This so-called first wave included bands such as Venom, Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. A second wave arose in the early 1990s, spearheaded by Norwegian bands such as Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, Immortal, Emperor, Satyricon and Gorgoroth. The early Norwegian black metal scene developed the style of their forebears into a distinct genre. Norwegian-inspired black metal scenes emerged throughout Europe and North America, although some other scenes developed their own styles independently. Some prominent Swedish bands spawned during this second wave, such as Marduk, Nifelheim and Dark Funeral.

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