Black Metal · GenresWhat is black metal?
Black metal is a form of extreme metal featuring harsh shrieking vocals, fast guitars with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, and raw or lo-fi production. Lyrics include topics such as: satanism, evil, viking culture, paganism.
About black metal
Some forms of black metal put an emphasis on the nuances of ambience or atmosphere, while others focus more on melody or technicality. The roots of black metal originate from bands such as: Venom, Bathory, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and Mercyful Fate.
From Last.fm, where 64,732 listeners have tagged music as black metal.
Artists to start with
Albums to hear first
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Deathcrush
Storm of the Light's Bane
Panzerfaust
Transilvanian Hunger
Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Night & Love
First SpellBlack Metal songs
- Dunkelheit by Burzum
- Freezing Moon by Mayhem
- Jesus' Tod by Burzum
- I Am the Black Wizards by Emperor
- A Fine Day to Die by Bathory
- Quintessence by Darkthrone
- Magnolia by Deafheaven
- Hades by Bathory
- Where Dead Angels Lie by Dissection
- Woman of Dark Desires by Bathory
Black Metal on Risocast
Why Can't We Be Friends?War · 1975
1973Seiromlost in a memorydeneb · 2023
Blood From Stone (Re-issue 2013 + Bonus Tracks)The Moaning · 2013
RunamokBackchat, SWWARMS · 2025
Moon, Forest, Blinding SnowPanychida · 2011
nihilismgorgon · 2026
Cosmos Is a Great Torture ChamberSade · 2022
Mind ControlBerserk
Dies IraeBathory
Neighbouring genres
In the metal & heavy family. All genres
death metaldoom metalalternative metaldeathcoredeath-doombrutal death metalblackened death metalcrossover thrashatmospheric black metalhardcore punkmetalavant-garde metalQuestions
- What is black metal?
- Black metal is a form of extreme metal featuring harsh shrieking vocals, fast guitars with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, and raw or lo-fi production. Lyrics include topics such as: satanism, evil, viking culture, paganism. Some forms of black metal put an emphasis on the nuances of ambience or atmosphere, while others focus more on melody or technicality.
- Who are the best-known black metal artists?
- By Last.fm listening: Justin Bieber, Darkthrone, NAV, Mayhem, Burzum and Deafheaven.
- What genres are similar to black metal?
- On Risocast it sits with death metal, doom metal, alternative metal, deathcore, death-doom and brutal death metal.
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Updated 6 October 2026
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