FAQ About The Influence of Black Metal on Music Subcultures
What is Black Metal and how did it originate?
Black Metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music characterized by its fast tempos, shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars, and unconventional song structures. It often features themes of darkness, evil, and the occult.
Black Metal originated in the early 1980s, with bands like Venom, Bathory, and Hellhammer laying the groundwork. The genre truly came into its own during the early 1990s with the Norwegian Black Metal scene, which included bands such as Mayhem, Burzum, and Emperor.
