Black metal

Black metal is a dark form of heavy metal music that originated in the 1980's from thrash metal bands such as Mercyful Fate, Celtic Frost and Venom. Venom inspired the name of the genre with their 1982 album simply named black metal. In 1984 The Norwegian Metal band mayhem decided to take the muic to a deeper darker and colder direction. Thus the second wave of black metal (norwegian black metal had started carving the way for bands and solo projects such as Darkthrone, Burzum, Satyricon, Immortal, Carpathian Forest, Emperor, Dark Funeral, Thorns, Ulver and Ildjarn. The Norwegian black metal scene became out of hand and Church Burnings, Murder and suicide started accuring.

Right: Varg Vikernes (Burzum)