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WHAT IS In its purest form, black metal is briefly made of light screaming vocals and heavily distorted guitars and fast drumming. Also, it is known for really fast trem picking guitars and fast drums playing blast beats. That song structure is often used to describe black metal, but we can’t say every band uses its most refined form. . Some people who started the black metal genre also claimed that death metal was sellouts that just wanted to play music and have fun, while black metal was supposed to be a lifestyle, not just a genre. It is known for its cold atmosphere and its often pagan or satanic imagery. BLACK METAL FACE PAINTING CORPSE PAINT Corpse paint is a style of black and white makeup used mainly by black metal bands for concerts and band photos. The makeup is used to make the musicians appear inhuman, corpse-like, or demonic, and is perhaps the most identifiable aspect of the black metal aesthetic. Corpse paint typically involves making the face and neck white and making the area around the eyes and lips black. Musicians will often have a trademark style. Early corpse paint was meant simply to highlight an individual's features and make them look "dead." Bands of the early Norwegian black metal scene used corpse paint extensively. Black metal is a dark genre; it has a dark history, dark lyrics, and dark music. Some people feel the atmosphere when they hear the music can remind of cold winter and dark woods. That is also why the bands from Norway are so popular. They know how a dark, lonely, cold forest feels like.

ORIGIN OF DARKNESS AND BLACK METAL BANDS Back in time, Black metal originated from death metal, changing its dark growling vocals to light screaming vocals. Early black metal bands like Venom or Bathory started out with a thrash metal sound with normal singing but transformed it into more screaming/distorted singing. The whole term “Black metal” came from Venom’s album and started evolving the genre. The early black metal bands from the 80s never made the genre big back then, but they inspired the next “wave” of black metal, the Norwegian bands. The first Norwegian black metal band was Mayhem, who released their first EP in 1987; it was called “Deathcrush.” Some years later, the community had grown with the new black metal bands, and black metal became an accepted metal subgenre. The genre first started with bands like Immortal, Darkthrone, Burzum, and Mayhem. An example of the extreme behavior of these bands includes the incident of the band Mayhem. In 1991, the vocalist of Mayhem, was found dead. He committed suicide and was found with wrists and throat slit open with a wound in the head from a shotgun. Mayhem guitarist Euronymous found him in his room, but instead of calling the police, the guitarist went to the local shop to buy disposable cameras and took some photos of his dead bandmate. Later, a drawn version of that photo was used in one of their album covers. Some other important things that happened were the church burnings that made the black metal bands from Norway famous. There are many characteristic things about Black metal fans, while there are many differences. Black Metal Community grew rapidly. It has its own way of connecting people with its feeling, vibe, mood, atmosphere. It is still a big misery how many people love old-school Norwegian black metal regardless of its sound quality. It sounded like a live performance most of the time, and I think that is why it gives the fans the actual mood. The music becomes a part of you.

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