After introducing so many Norwegian bands, we should not forget that dark metal originated in Sweden and Britain. Now, let's take a look at the development of black metal music in these two countries and other European countries, as well as the style changes of black metal in the late 199s.

In p>199, Marduk, the best dark metal band in Sweden, was founded, and its name was Marduk, the god of war and magic of Sumerians and Akkadians in ancient Babylon. Marduk band is known as the "war machine". The theme of their works is full of war and obscenity. Their music style is tyrannical, primitive and fast. Their greatest desire is to create the most evil music in human history. In 1991, they published their first album "Fuck Me Jesus", the cover of which was a woman who raped herself with a cross. The content was full of extreme rebellion against Christ, and it was immediately banned in seven countries.

Marduk established his pure dark metal style in 1996 with "Heaven Will Burn ... When We Are Gathered", and this album is regarded as their best work. The whole album is extremely dark. Drums and guitars roar at an extremely fast speed and make a murderous noise like turbulent waves. The voice of the lead singer is cruel and horrible, and it is depressing and suffocating evil from beginning to end. It includes eight songs: The Call of Darkness, God's Mercy in a Far Away Place, Eternal Hell, Praise of the God of Darkness, Darkness Coming, Satan's Evil Executioner, Dracula of Transylvania (Dracula is a famous vampire) and Roman Legion. Special mention should be made here of the fourth song "Praise of the God of Darkness", which uses the melody of "Night on a Barren Mountain". Musorgskiy's symphonic poem describes the scene of death's carnival dance on a barren mountain night, and the chilling and cold atmosphere coincides with the contents of this album. Marduk's adaptation adds to the frenzied and gloomy atmosphere of this work.

after "burning" the kingdom of heaven, Marduk published a vampire-themed album "Nightwing" in 1998, which took the evil vampire Vlad Dracula in Carpathian folklore as the theme and declared war on Christ by praising the cruelty of vampires. Then came "Panzer Division Marduk", which was published in 1999 with the theme of war. The album added a lot of samples of gunfire and guns on the battlefield, showing a cruel war scene. This album is an ode to destruction, where evil finally triumphed over justice. In 2, Marduk published Obedience, an obscene single, including Obedience, the Funeral of an Prostitute and Entering a Glorious Cave. They are also some of Marduk's best works. These music are dense and powerful, and they are as continuous as clockwork. The cover of the first edition of the album is a woman who has been * * *, which is regarded as. In 21, La Grande Danse Macabre was published, which proved to the world that Marduk is still wandering in this world.

Dark Funeral, which appeared three years after Marduk was founded, is a famous brutal dark metal band in Sweden. Their music is like hell, cold, bleak and fierce, and the lead singer's voice is shrill, like vomiting, like a demon growling. In 1996, their debut album The Secrets Of The Black Arts was an evil hymn, a raging chaos and a classic of dark metal. With this album, Dark Funeral was called the most extreme dark metal band in Sweden. In 1998, they published Vobiscum Satanas, which strengthened the sense of melody and enriched the music. In 21, Dark Funeral's best album Diabolus Interium was published, and the music still kept the extreme and dark of the first album. At the same time, it was a Satan symphony with extraordinary majestic momentum. It consists of eight songs: The Ruling of Satan has come, Hail to the Slaughterer, Goddess of sodomy, Devil in the Heart, A disciple of Satan, I say this, The Decisive Battle between Good and Evil has finally arrived and Cold Heart. -In these works, "evil" finally defeated "good". It turned out that "evil" was hidden in the depths of the soul, so "evil" won without fighting, and the heart was cold because of "evil".

dark metal music developed into melody in the mid-199s. The Cradle of Filth in Britain and Dimmu Borgir in Norway are the most famous bands of melodic dark metal. Founded in 1992, Cradle of Filth claims to be "the only dark metal band in Britain". Their music combines the gothic metal music style, which is both violent and beautiful. Their works always take the legendary vampire as the theme, and the voice of the lead singer screaming like a devil vividly shows the cruelty of vampires, which brings the most prominent and unique characteristics to this band; Moreover, they often use organ and violin in their own music, which embodies the tradition of British classical music, which has become another unique feature of them.

In p>1994, Cradle of Filth's first album "The Principle Of Evil Made Flesh" was an extraordinary success, and it is still regarded as their best work. The protagonist of this work is the vampire Countess Bathory, and she will be the protagonist of almost all works of Cradle of Filth in the future. The prelude "Our Dark Bride" (Neck Wedding) seems to bring people into the fog of the night, and a story about vampires begins: in the theme song "The Origin of Evil Creates All Living Beings", the harsh and miserable cries cut through the night sky; Then, "The forest whispers my name", and the faint voice seems to come from the grave, which is the call of the "dark goddess"; At midnight, heavy footsteps, soul-stirring thunder, endless rain, the roar of the organ, and the creaking sound of the door being pushed open echoed in this dark rainy night. A priest saw the Resurrection of the Dark Goddess. The lewd "Dark Goddess" whispered provocative words and sent "A Last Kiss of Death". The charming music of keyboard music and strings made this "Last Kiss of Death" full of deadly temptation, which made people involuntarily throw themselves into her arms. When the mind is in a frenzy, the growing desire is flowing, the bloodthirsty desire, the blood of life; The Magic Power of Eve exudes evil and animal nature, which makes people tremble with fear. The organ plays gently in Fog and Midnight Sky. After a scream, the sound of running water and the wonderful sound of night tell the end of the story-"We are drowned by mysterious love and die"; Dream of the Wolf in the Snow is beautiful and short-lived, and only sadness remains when I wake up, which is the sadness of the fleeting dying summer. Beneath the brutal appearance, these music tells us a romantic story, which is a dark metal work full of beauty and touching.

The Origin of Evil created all beings, which brought good luck to the Cradle of Filth, and almost all the subsequent records were highly praised. In 1996, the single "Vampire/Dark Faery Tales in Phallustein" was published. In this record, their style became more mature. The epic Dusk And Her Embrace in 1996, Cruelty And The Beast in 1998 and Midian (a resident of ancient northern Arabia) in 2 are all outstanding works. In 21, the new album Bitter Suites To Succubi was published. In the new century, Cradle of Filth continues to tell us the sequel to the vampire story.

since the mid-199s, Dimmu Borgir has become the most important band in the dark metal field in Norway. Dimmu Borgir was founded in 1993. When their first album "For All Tid" was published in 1994, its dark atmosphere was immediately recognized by people. Subsequently, they established the style of symphonic dark metal in Stormblast published in 1996, and became famous in the world. In the same year, Dimmu Borgir's famous single "Devil's Path" was published. This record contains four famous works: Disharmonious Master, Devil's Path and two versions of Fear of the Night. Among them, Devil's Path is Dimmu Borgir's masterpiece, and its melody is simple, but it is beautiful and more desolate.

Even though I live in the shadow,

I sleep with death.

I embraced the prostitute in the evil desire,

freeing her from the shameful life.

Even if fallen angels's ghost

is everywhere. I serve the darkness,

I am a prince among demons,

so I have eternal life.

the king of the dark kingdom,

cursed by life and all things;

Oh, my eternal heart will never tremble,

even if you attack the shadow of death.

Immortal life is given by heaven,

I will rule another millennium.

In p>1997, Dimmu Borgir published Lands of Lore's Triumphant, a classic of dark metal, which combined the traditional dark metal style with Gothic metal style and whipping metal style, combined more melodic factors with the extremes of dark metal, and added the chorus effect created by the synthesizer, making it a symphonic epic aesthetic work. In 1999, another excellent album, Spiritual Black Dimensions, was published, and Dimmu Borgir made a new attempt. They added more whipping metal and cruel death metal styles to their music, showing diversified characteristics. In 21, the latest album "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia" was published. The cover of this record is very eye-catching: a "crucifixion picture" which was replaced by a female body and wrapped in thorns; The music in the album tends to be mysticism and nihilism, and it is closer to the death metal style. As a whole, it is like a symphony and is the most powerful work of Dimmu Borgir. The strings first played a cold and low "Symphony Overture", "Fear and Surprise", followed by the brutal "Praise for the Tyranny King", and the drums continued to beat one after another. Then, in the piercing wind, "Kings Celebrating the Creation" came again; All the songs in this album are almost uninterrupted from beginning to end, and the following songs include: Symbol of Bastard-Traitor, An Organization that Slaughters Nature, Puritans, Instilling Faith, Devil's Vortex, Absolute Only Justice, Feast and Innocent or Nothing. As the last movement of the symphony, Innocent or Nothing has the same beautiful strings as the overture, but it sweeps away the gloomy atmosphere and overflows more detachment.

In the year when Dimmu Borgir was founded, another melodic dark metal band, Old Man's Child, appeared in Norway. However, their music style was more brutal symphonic dark metal music. In 1996, they began to attract people's attention with a single disc "In The Shades Of Life", which included their "Team Song" and "Old Man's Child". Their most important album is "Revelation 666: The Curse of Damnation" published in 2. 666 stands for the devil and refers to six o'clock on the sixth day of the sixth month of the year. This album established Old Man's Child's position in the field of dark metal.

Melodic dark metal was adopted by many bands at the end of 199s, and the Swedish band Siebenburgen is one of the outstanding ones. They use the looming ethereal female voice to oppose the dead cavity, which is the most fascinating dark metal music I have ever heard. Their best album at present is Plagued Be Thy Angel published in 21. At the beginning of the new century, an excellent band Graveworm appeared in the Italian dark metal world. They are melodious dark metals that pay great attention to the atmosphere. Scourge Of Malice, published in 21, is a highly classical album, which uses a lot of violin timbre. For example, there is a moving violin solo paragraph in the second song "Being desecrated by the Ghost". The first half of the fifth song "coronach" is a classical guitar solo, and the seventh song "Devil's Hip" is simply a Gregorian chant-but it is full of blasphemy.

In p>1995, Anorezia Nervosa (Anorexia Nervosa), the most famous French dark metal band, was founded. They called themselves "symphonic dark metal", and the gorgeous characteristics of their music were very French, which, as they said, was "a more French artistic voice". Anorexia Nervosa is often compared with the English Cradle of Filth, but compared with Anorexia Nervosa's amazing speed, impact and bloody degree, Cradle of Filth is "tender".