Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played...

Socialist black metal (also known as NSBM, NS black metal, Nazi black metal, or radical black metal) is a political movement within the black metal music...

fiction. Building from the musical structure of thrash metal and early black metal, death metal emerged during the mid-1980s. Bands such as Venom, Celtic...

Blackened death metal (also known as black death metal or simply black-death) is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal that fuses elements of black metal and death...

The early Norwegian black metal scene of the 1990s is credited with creating the modern black metal genre and produced some of the most acclaimed and...

genre is strongly influenced by the early work of Black Sabbath, who formed a prototype for doom metal. During the first half of the 1980s, a number of...

Metal Black is the eleventh studio album by heavy metal band Venom. It was released in 2006 through Castle/Sanctuary. It is the last to feature Mykvs...

The lists of black metal bands that have articles available on Wikipedia can be found at: List of black metal bands, 0–K, for bands beginning with 0–9...

Black Metal is the second album by English heavy metal band Venom. It was released in November 1982 during the new wave of British heavy metal, and is...

The metal drum setup is generally much larger than those employed in other forms of rock music. Black metal, death metal and some "mainstream metal" bands...