Black Metal

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Black Metal

• Presentation
• By
• Shpak Oleg
• 11 G

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• Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy
  metal. It often employs fast tempos, shrieked
  vocals, highly distorted guitars played with
  tremolo picking, double-kick drumming, and
  unconventional song structure.

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• During the 1980s, certain thrash metal bands
  established a prototype for black metal. This
  so-called first wave included bands such as
  Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer and Celtic Frost.

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• A second wave emerged in the early 1990s, which
  consisted primarily of Norwegian bands such as
  Mayhem. Burzum, Darkthrone, Gorgoroth
  (band),Immortal and Emperor. This scene developed
  the black metal style into a distinct genre.

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• Black metal has been met with considerable
  hostility from mainstream culture, mainly due to
  the misanthropic and anti-Christian ideology of
  many artists. Additionally, some musicians have
  been associated with church burnings, murder or
  National Socialism. For these reasons and others,
  black metal is often viewed as an underground
  form of music.

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• Black metal guitarists usually favour high gain
  guitar tones and abundant distortion. Typically,
  the guitar is played with much usage of fast
  tremolo picking.When composing music, guitarists
  often use scales, intervals and chord
  progressions that produce the most dissonant,
  fearful and ominous sounds. Guitar solos and low
  guitar tunings are a rarity in black metal.

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• The bass guitar is rarely used to perform
  independent melodies. It is not uncommon for the
  bass guitar to be inaudible or to homophonically
  follow the bass lines of the electric guitar.

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• Typically, drumming is fast-paced and performed
  using double-bass and blast beat techniques
  however, it is not unusual for drummers to employ
  more simplistic techniques.

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• Traditional black metal vocals are in the form of
  high-pitched shrieks, screams and snarls. This
  vocal style sharply contrasts with the
  low-pitched growls of death metal. The majority
  of black metal vocalists are male, although there
  are a few notable exceptions for example
  Cadaveria and Astarte.

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• The most common and founding lyrical theme is
  opposition to Christianity and other organized
  religions (described by some as Right-Hand Path
  religions). As part of this, many artists write
  lyrics that could be seen to promote atheism,
  antitheism, paganism and Satanism. Other themes
  that are commonly explored include depression,
  nihilism, misanthropy and death. However, some
  black metal artists write lyrics that are
  inspired by winter, nature, mythology, folklore
  and fantasy narratives.

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• Production
• Low-cost production quality began as a must for
  pioneering black metal artists with low budgets.
  However, even when they were able to increase
  their production quality, many artists
  intentionally recorded in a low fidelity style.
  The reason for this was to remain true to the
  genres underground roots and to make the music
  sound more cold. One of the better-known examples
  of this production is the album Transilvanian
  Hunger by Darkthrone, a band who represent the
  DIY aspect of black metal according to Johnathan
  Selzer of Terrorizer magazine.Many have noted
  that, originally, black metal was not designed to
  attract listeners. Vocalist Gaahl claimed that
  during its early years, black metal was never
  meant to reach an audience, it was purely for our
  own satisfaction.

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• In the early 1990s, most pioneering black metal
  artists used very simplistic black-and-white
  imagery on their record covers. Some believe this
  was a reaction against death metal bands, who at
  that time had begun to use brightly coloured
  album artwork. Most underground black metal
  artists have continued this style. Bands that do
  not use this style usually have album covers that
  are either atmospheric or provocative some
  feature natural or fantastical landscapes (for
  example Burzums Filosofem and Emperors In The
  Nightside Eclipse) while others are violent,
  perverted and iconoclastic (for example Marduks
  Fuck Me Jesus).

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• Black metal artists typically appear dressed in
  black with combat boots, bullet belts, spiked
  wristbands, and inverted crosses/inverted
  pentagrams to reinforce their anti-Christian or
  anti-religious stance. However, they are most
  often identified by their usage of corpse paint
  black and white makeup (sometimes detailed with
  real or fake blood), which is used to simulate a
  corpse-like appearance.

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