Death Metal/Black Metal (Death/Black Metal)
Death metal comes from the thrash metal of the late 1980s. Taking it to extremes with gritty lyrics and a morbid obsession with thrash, death metal is--as its name suggests--solely about death, pain, and torture. These brutally cold lyrics are repeated loudly and heavily, a style influenced by slow metal like Black Sabbath, of which Metallica is a typical example. Death metal bands were also influenced by the complex song structures of 1970s art rock, although most of these complex song structures were learned from Metallica. Death metal never had a huge hit with the masses, but for some die-hard heavy metal fans, Metallica and Guns N Roses were the best - and they bought millions in the late '80s and early '90s. records --- or pop metal, like Poison. Death/black metal maintained a small but loyal following of fans during the 1990s.
List of bands/artists with this style
Abigor, Abyssos, Aeternus, Alastis, All Shall Perish, Amon Amarth, Amorphis, Anathema, Ancient, Angelcorpse, Antichrisis, Apostasy, Arcturus , Ashes You Leave, Atheist, At The Gates, Bal-Sagoth, Borknagar, Burzum, Caliban, Cannibal Corpse, Carcass, Carnal Forge, Cemetary, Children of Bodom, Cradle Of Filth, Criminal, Cryptopsy, Darkseed, Dark Tranquillity, Darkthrone, Death, Deicide, Destroyer 666, Dimmu Borgir, Dismal Euphony, Dismember, Dissection, Dreams of Damnation, Einherjer, Emperor, Enslaved, Enthroned, Entombed, Evereve, the Gathering, Graveworm, Hypocrisy, Immolation, In Flames, Internal Suffering, Kamelot, Katatonia, Krabathor, Labyrinth, Lamb of God, Marduk, Mayhem, Moonspell, Morbid Angel, My Dying Bride, Napalm Death, Nasum, Nile, Obituary, Old Man's Child, Opeth, Otep, Paradise Lost, Penumbra, Samael, Saturnus, Sentenced , Sepultura, Shadows Fall, Siebenburgen, Sigh, the Sins Of Thy Beloved, Six Feet Under, Skinless, Suffocation, Summoning, Therion, Thyrfing, Tiamat, Tristania, Ulver, Venom, Vintersorg, Virgin Black, Windir, Witchery, Within Temptation.
With evil, pagan worship and Satanic thoughts as its main appeals, it is usually classified as black metal when the lyrics contain anti-Christian and anti-religious tendencies. In addition to traditional heavy metal fixed instruments, it is often used Other instruments such as piano, violin, or opera soprano create an eerie and frightening atmosphere in the song. "Black metal" is most represented by heavy metal groups from Northern Europe.
1. Enlightenment Black Metal: In the early 1980s, the British underground heavy metal band Venom clearly promoted the worship of Satan and the desire for war in their music, and was composed by them For the first time, the term "Black Metal" was brought to the metal circle, pointing out the musical direction for future black metal bands; Sweden also had two enlightening black metal bands, Bathory (named after the vampire countess) and Celtic Frost. Their music basically has the characteristics of original black metal: rough, violent, and evil! Bathory's first album is also known as the first black metal album.
What must be mentioned is Mercyful Fate (Mercyful Fate) from Denmark. Although they did not have much influence on the original black metal in the future, they played a role model for gothic black metal, symphonic black metal, and gothic metal.
2. Primitive black metal: The hometown of primitive black metal is Norway. The first Norwegian primitive black metal bands were Mayhem (Intentional Harm) formed in 1983 and Burzum formed in 1991. Mayhem's 1993 album "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" is regarded as a model for many new black metal bands in the future. "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" is a milestone album in the history of Black Metal and one of the greatest albums of Black Metal. One, here is the purest Black Metal.
Between 1992 and 1994, the second batch of primitive black metal began to emerge. Norway had: Darkthrone. Although Darkthrone had been formed in 1996, their true primitive black metal work was in 1992. Published only in 2000), Satryicon (Forest God), Gehenna (Hell), Immortal (Immortal), etc.; Sweden has: Marduk, Dark Funeral (Dark Funeral), etc.; other European countries include: Poland's Graveland (cemetery) , Abigor of Austria, Impaled Nazarene of Finland (impaled Christian), Baltak of Macedonia, etc.
3. Symphonic black metal: When the second batch of original black metal bands were active, another new type of black metal was also constantly developing, which used a large number of keyboard performances to set off the darkness. The atmosphere is extremely majestic symphonic black metal. Representative bands include: Norway's Emperor, Old Man's Child, and Dimmu Borgir; other European bands include: Austria's Summoning, Italy's Stormlord, and Ukraine's Nokturnal Mortum et al.
4. Gothic black metal: This type of black metal mainly adds gothic keyboards and gothic female vocals to the original black metal music, and pays attention to visual effects. Representative bands include Norway's Dismal Euphony, Graveworm in Italy and Cradle Of Filth in the UK.
5. Viking metal: This is a kind of folk-style black metal based on Nordic Viking culture. Representative bands include Norway’s Ulver (Wolf), Enslaved, Einherjer, Borknagar, etc., and the Swedish band Bathory Middle and late works.
6. Melodic black metal: This is an emerging black metal style. It has the same meaning as melodic death metal, which is to make extreme music melodious. The representative bands are Swedish Vintersorg and Witchered Beauty. wait.
7. Black metal: This is a branch of black metal. It uses black metal playing techniques and singing to express one's emotions. It generally does not contain devil worship. Representative bands include Norway's Aeternus (Sleep) and Thy Serpent in Finland; Crematory in Germany; Samael in Switzerland.
Representative bands
Emperor, Mayhem, Enslaved, Dark Funeral