Black metal
Black metal is a genre. Defining acts include Varg Vikernes, Mayhem, Burzum, Venom and Bathory, and their records are the quickest way into the sound. Black metal grew out of extreme metal, symphonic metal, viking metal, raw black metal and Speed metal. It sits close to Doom metal, deathrash, Death metal, dark metal and atmospheric death metal, scenes that trade players, venues and ideas with it. Its influence carried into Blackgaze, pagan black metal, troll metal, true black metal and psychedelic black metal, which took the template somewhere else. The chart currently maps 40 connections around Black metal. Open any neighbouring band or genre to trace where Black metal came from and where it led.
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Black metal connections
Black metal grew out of extreme metal, symphonic metal, viking metal and raw black metal, shares an orbit with Doom metal, deathrash, Death metal and dark metal, went on to shape Blackgaze, pagan black metal, troll metal and true black metal. 40 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
What influenced Black metal
Sounds and acts that shaped Black metal.
Genres similar to Black metal
Artists and scenes sharing an orbit with Black metal.
What Black metal shaped
Where the influence of Black metal travelled next.
- Blackgazegenre
- pagan black metalgenre
- troll metalgenre
- true black metalgenre
- psychedelic black metalgenre
- National Socialist black metalgenre
- melodic black metalgenre
- raw black metalgenre
- black 'n' rollgenre
- dissonant black metalgenre
- unblack metalgenre
- black doomgenre
- blackened death metalgenre
- war metalgenre
- atmospheric black metalgenre
- progressive black metalgenre
- ambient black metalgenre
- depressive black metalgenre
- first wave black metalgenre
- black ambientgenre
- viking metalgenre
- symphonic black metalgenre
- post-black metalgenre
- Early Norwegian black metal scenegenre
- red and anarchist black metalgenre
- pop black metalgenre
- black noisegenre
- Hellenic black metalgenre
- Norsecoregenre
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