Metal Archives - Black Metal band list (14,000+ bands)I'm more into death and power metal but I love black metal.
Most people don't know the deferences in metal genres and don't know any bands outside of Metallica,Pantera,Slayer,etc. Though there are a lot of mallcore bullshit bands like S.O.A.D, Slipknot,Atreyu,BFMV, etc that claim to be "Metal", these bands are pretty much what most people think "metal" is or what it's all about.
Black Metal is an Extreme form of metal that usually uses a higher pitched tuning than that used in Death metal or other similar genres. It also uses fast tempos, non conventional song structures, and "shrieking" vocals that make it sound unique.
Black metal was founded on primarily thrash metal bands such as Venom,Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and Bathory. In the early 90s during the 2nd wave of Black metal most BM bands were Norwegian such as Burzum,Darkthrone and Emperor.
Me since I'm a Christian I'm drawn more towards "Unblack" metal which is Black metal but a lot of people in the black metal community try to disown it and keep it separate since black metal was born with the intention of encouraging anti-Christian views.
Horde is a one man BM band that is credited as the first Christian BM band with the album Hellig Usvart(Holy Unblack). Other notable Unblack bands are:
-Antestor
-Vaakevandring
-Frosthardr
-Drottnar
-Sanctifica
-Crimson Moonlight
-Admonish
-Slechtvalk
-Frost Like Ashes
It [black metal] doesn't necessarily have to be all satanic as long as it's dark.(Sigurd Wongraven, Satyricon)
Black metal, along with other forms of metal, is often though of as evil and Satanic which it is not, just as we say guns are not evil, music is not evil.