i have been listening to metal for a few years but i still feel like there are a lot of bands i'm missing out on. currently i'm listening to bands like finntroll,sepultura, amon amarth and blood shot dawn. i'm not a huge fan of black metal but i don't listen to to that much so maybe a few black metal bands for beginners would be nice also i'm not really interested in any core bands especially grindcore. I figure im mostly in the melodic and folk stuff but i wouldn't mind getting into some of the harder bands though. if anyone can help it would be much appreciated
Here are all of the Black Metal Genres (and their crossover) I know of not mentioned in : Blackgaze: Crossing Atmospheric Black Metal with Shoegaze (where instruments blend with each other Bands: Deafheaven, Alcest Blackened Death Metal: Crossing Black Metal with Death Metal Bands:Belphagor, Behemoth Blackened Doom Metal: Crossing Black Metal with Doom Metal Bands: Woods of Ypres, early Katatonia Depressive Suicidial Black Metal (DSBM): Black Metal with a more introverted atmosphere Bands:Shining, Gris, Trist Melodic Black Metal: Black Metal with a heavier emphasis on a clean and polished sound Bands: Dissection, Windir, Borknager Pagan Black Metal: Black metal with some folk elements and more melodic guitars Bands: Ulver, Negur? Bunget Progressive Black Metal: Crossing Black Metal with Progressive Rock/Progressive Metal Bands: Enslaved
Melodic Black Metal Viking Metal Unblack Metal
all the black metal subgenres i know of Black Metal Raw black metal symphonic black metal melodic black metal NS black metal (i don't consider it a real genre since the only difference is the lyrics) Pagan metal (again, only difference is the lyrics with the occasional flute solo) Unblack metal (again, only difference is the lyrics) blackened death metal (although i consider this more death metal) Depressive suicidal black metal (some people don't consider this a real sub genre, but i do. listen to Forgotten tomb and you'll hear how different they are from, say, gorgoroth) Ambient black metal Then of course you can just mix pretty much any genre with black metal like black/doom metal black/thrash metal black/folk metal black/progressive metal
Frist wave bands Bathory , Darkthorne, Venom, immortal all are different Venom is more of a mix of thrash, black and death metal.. Bathory was the inventor of the Nordic black metal sound.. Darkthorne was also more extreme and influenced by death metal, Immortal like venom a mix or extreme black metal... Second wave is when you had more different influnces Emperor progressive/ symphonic, Mayham death and Suicidal.. But the most common ones are first wave Black Metal Blackened death Blackened thrash Melodic Black Symphonic Black metal Pagan Black metal or second wave of black metal Folk/Viking black metal Doom black metal Ambient/ Atmospheric black metal NSBM national socialist Black metal DSBM Depressive black metal Extreme black metal , Nattefrost and Marduk Raw is not a style it just coping of first wave black metal and unblack metal is not a sub genre either...it is either black metal or its not... the problem is there is some sub genre's , the more mix it and progress it loses its luster and sound... I just call it all black metal as long as it sounds like black metal, if doesn't then I don't call it black metal...
