Heavy metal branch
Black metal
Heavy metal › Black metal
- Emerged
- 1982
- Origin
- Norway / Sweden
- Subgenres
- 10
Tremolo picking, blast beats, shrieked vocals and deliberately cold production. More an aesthetic than a technique - atmosphere matters more than clean sound.
- Heaviness
- 9
- Speed
- 9
- Melody
- 4
Key acts
- Bathory
- Mayhem
- Darkthrone
- Emperor
Branches into
- Atmospheric black metal
- Blackgaze / post-black
- Black 'n' roll
- DSBM
- First wave
- Pagan / Viking black metal
- Raw black metal
- Second wave
- Symphonic black metal
- War metal / bestial