Your way in
Raw black metal 1993
Lo-fi production taken to the extreme, often recorded straight to tape. The noise is part of the composition.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 8
- Melody
- 2
- Where from
- Global
- Tempo
- 160-240 bpm
- Song length
- 3-7 min
- Written about
- Misanthropy, Isolation, Nature, hostilely, Refusal of an audience
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Raw black metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy. I want to feel it. How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 8 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1993 | 100% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 2 out of 10 | 90% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 95% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, melody 1 out of 6. Raw black metal leads the next by 2 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Darkthrone, A Blaze in the Northern Sky 1992
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky. The production is intentional, not a flaw.
- 2The one to put on first
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Black metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Raw black metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Mincecore 93%
Deliberately primitive grindcore with blunt political messages and thousands of appearances on split releases.
4 steps from Raw black metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Mincecore -
Crust punk 93%
D-beat soaked in metal and mud: thick tone, apocalyptic themes, trousers unwashed since 1989.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Raw black metal.
The way into Crust punk
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 6.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. Worth 1 of 6.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.