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Black metal is one of extreme metal’s most abrasive forms. Fast tempos, tremolo-picked distorted guitars, blast-beat drumming and shrieked vocals became common traits.
Venom and Bathory were among the bands that laid its 1980s foundations. Bathory’s early records helped establish an uncompromising template that later Scandinavian musicians studied closely. In the early 1990s, the Norwegian scene around Mayhem, Darkthrone, Emperor and other bands crystallised a second-wave form that became internationally influential.
IDIOTEQ often covers black metal at its borders. Turku’s Birching represent a stripped-down approach. Porto trio Mangualde connect black metal with neocrust, screamo, grindcore and mathcore. Iowa’s DRYAD come through black metal and crust.
Other routes move further outward. Nottingham’s Underdark brought The Cure into a post-black metal context. Atlanta’s Tómarúm work from progressive black metal, while Buenos Aires band Fenece sit near blackgaze and ambient black metal.
Across the archive, black metal repeatedly crosses into post-metal, screamo, crust and death metal.