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unusual facts about Black metal


Bats Day in the Fun Park

Other dark subcultures represented at the event include Horror Punk, Horror Rock, Halloween, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Black metal, Steampunk, Hearse Societies, Industrial and EBM.


Amesoeurs

Amesoeurs was a French post-punk/black metal band formed in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, France in Summer 2004 by guitarist/vocalist Neige of Alcest, and by bassist/singer Audrey Sylvain and guitarist Fursy Teyssier (Phest, Les Discrets) with the purpose of creating a music that reflects the dark side of the industrial era and modern civilization.

Attera Orbis Terrarum

Attera Orbis Terrarum is the name of the series of tours by Swedish black metal band Dark Funeral in promotion of their 2005 studio album Attera Totus Sanctus.

Black Metal Massacre Live

Black Metal Massacre Live is a live album by Finnish black metal band Satanic Warmaster.

Brahmavidya: Primordial I

Brahmavidya: Primordial I is the fourth full-length album by Singaporean black metal band Rudra, released in 2005.

Chuck BB

Chuck BB (born 1981 in California) is an Eisner Award winning American comic book creator, best known for his work on Spider-Man, Fear Agent, and Oni's Black Metal.

Dargaard

Tharen had already played a prominent role in several underground bands by this time, including Abigor and Amestigon, both black metal bands and Dominion III, an industrial music act.

Den Yttersta Tiden

Den Yttersta Tiden is the debut EP by the Christian black metal band Admonish.

Finnish profanity

The word is very common in the country and likely the best known expletive abroad, and enjoys a kind of emblematic status; for instance, the Finnish black metal band Impaled Nazarene named its 1994 patriotic album Suomi Finland Perkele (using the word as a reference to Finnishness, not to the devil) and the more conventional M. A. Numminen released a 1971 album known as Perkele! Lauluja Suomesta ("Perkele! Songs from Finland").

Grailknights

In contrast to black metal, the Grailknights use lively colours such as red (Mac Death), blue (Lord Lightbringer), green (Sir Optimus Prime) and yellow (Baron van der Blast).

Grand Belial's Key

Grand Belial's Key is a black metal band, formed in Oakton, Virginia in 1992 by guitarist Gelal Necrosodomy and vocalist Lord Vlad Luciferian.

H418ov21.C

H418ov21.C (short for House 418 of 21st Century) is the second studio album by Finnish black metal band Beherit, released in 1994.

Heavy metal fashion

Folk metal, viking metal, black metal and power metal fans often grow long thick hair and beards reminiscent of a stereotypical Viking, Saxon and Celt, and wear Thor's Hammer pendants and other pagan symbols.

Latex Cult

Latex Cult is the fourth full-length album by Finnish black metal band Impaled Nazarene.

Magane

This combines black metal, death metal and thrash metal elements with traditional Japanese influences, not only musically but also lyrically, especially with references to gods in Japanese mythology such as Izanagi and Izanami, and also the Japanese version of Hell known as Yomi.

Nattestid Ser Porten Vid

Nattestid Ser Porten Vid (English: Night Sees the Wide Gate) was the first full-length album released by Norwegian black metal band Taake.

Necropolis Records

Necropolis Records was a record label founded by Paul Thind in 1993, mainly providing an American home for extreme black metal.

No Colours Records

No Colours Records is a German mail order and record label from Mügeln specialised in black metal.

Nocturno Culto

Ted Skjellum (born 4 March 1972 in Kolbotn, Oppegård), also known by the stage names Nocturno Culto, Nocturno or Kveldulv, is a Norwegian musician best known as the vocalist, lead guitarist, and partial bassist (shared with Fenriz) of the influential black metal band Darkthrone.

Sacrament ov impurity

The black metal band Sacrament Ov Impurity formed in 2007 and is located in the outskirts of Washington State.

Shane Embury

Embury also plays with Napalm Death bandmate Danny Herrera, Kevin Sharp of Brutal Truth, and Danny Lilker of Nuclear Assault and Brutal Truth in the band Venomous Concept; and has recently toured with UK black metal/grindcore band Anaal Nathrakh.

Steineiche

Steineiche is the first demo produced by the Swiss ambient black metal band Paysage D'Hiver.

Terrorcrowned

Terrorcrowned is the first and also probably the last release of the German black metal band Sindecade.

Teutonic Knights in popular culture

The Norwegian black metal band Dimmu Borgir used the story of the Teutonic Knights for the music video of their single "The Serpentine Offering".

The Devil's Blood

The group's name is taken after the song "Devil's Blood" by the Swedish black-metal band Watain.

The Swan Road

The Swan Road (Ukrainian: Лебединий Шлях, Lebedynyy Shlyakh) is the third album by the Ukrainian black metal band Drudkh, released in 2005.

Vanessa Van Basten

Their influences are cosmic psychedelia, industrial rock (like Swans or Godflesh), Neurot & Hydrahead catalogue, old 4AD bands, krautrock, Norwegian black metal.


see also

A Handful of Stars

Handful of Stars, a 2010 album by Ukrainian black metal band Drudkh

Astrofaes

Like many other black metal outfits from Ukraine, Astrofaes focus heavily both musically and lyrically on Slavonic pride and folklore and bear an atmospheric element less evident in their Scandinavian counterparts.

Banks Violette

According to Violette, the inspiration of the piece was a series of instances of arson committed by rival metal enthusiasts in Norway, which culminated in the 1993 knife murder of Øystein Aarseth, guitarist of the black metal band Mayhem by Varg Vikernes of the band Burzum.

Blasphemer

"Blasphemer", the stage name of Rune Eriksen, a Norwegian guitarist formerly of the black metal group Mayhem.

Clandestine Blaze / Deathspell Omega – Split

Clandestine Blaze / Deathspell Omega – Split is an album released by the black metal bands Clandestine Blaze and Deathspell Omega in 2001.

Come On Die Young

The black metal band Deafheaven covered "Punk Rock" and "Cody" for the 2012 split EP Deafheaven / Bosse-de-Nage.

Destructor

Euronymous (1968-1993), guitarist and co-founder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem.

Frank Dicksee

The painting was used by Swedish Viking/Black metal band Bathory for the cover of their 1990 album, Hammerheart.

Hellraiser

Coil's original theme was later covered by the Italian black metal band Aborym on their debut album Kali Yuga Bizarre.

Khold

The first Khold album, Masterpiss of Pain, was released in 2001, with a critic referring to the album as a "fresh breath upon the black metal scene".

Krzysztof Oloś

Krzysztof Oloś (born 4 September 1979 in Warsaw), also known as Siegmar, is an Polish keyboardist for the symphonic black metal band Vesania.

Langhus

Several well-known musicians began their careers in the Langhus area during the mid to late 1980s, playing at the local practice room, including the black metal band Mayhem and black metal artist Simen Hestnæs.

Lars Eric Si

Then he became the session-bassist for the black metal band Tulus.

Les Litanies de Satan

The Norwegian black metal act Gorgoroth performed "Litani til Satan", with Baudelaire's lyrics translated to Nynorsk, on their Incipit Satan album.

Mantas

Jeffrey Dunn, a British death/black metal musician also known as Mantas, as such as his band of the same name.

Melechesh

The band’s goal was to create a type of black metal incorporating extensive Middle Eastern influences mainly based on Assyrian (Mesopotamian) and occult themes (both musically and lyrically); the band invented the title "Assyrian metal" to best describe their type of metal.

Murder Music: A History of Black Metal

Murder Music: A History of Black Metal is a heavy metal music documentary aired on British pay-per-view channel Rockworld TV.

Paysage D'Hiver

Piero Scaruffi felt that Paysage d'Hiver (2000) "basically rediscovered black metal".

Pop music in Ukraine

Influenced by their Norwegian counterparts, Black Metal bands include Nokturnal Mortum, Lucifugum, Drudkh, Hate Forest, Astrofaes, Holy Blood, Blood of Kingu, Raventale, Lutomysl and Dub Buk.

Rakel Liekki

In 2001, Liekki was featured in the music video for the song Hardboiled and Still Hellbound by Finnish black metal band Impaled Nazarene, in 2007 in the music video Broken Promised Land by Finnish rock band Private Line and in 2008 in the music video Lääke by Finnish metal band Stam1na.

Sear Bliss

The first demo named The Pagan Winter was released in May and the atmospheric black metal music of Sear Bliss got to European extreme metal record labels.

Shagrat

Shagrath, the lead singer of Norwegian symphonic black metal band Dimmu Borgir.

Shatraug

Apart from usual black metal themed lyrics, Pystynen writes about fantasy and the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.

The Gospel of Filth

The Gospel of Filth: A Bible of Decadence & Darkness (formerly known as "The Gospel of Filth: A Black Metal Bible") is a book by Dani Filth and Gavin Baddeley, documenting the history of the band Cradle of Filth and straying further afield to explore their influences and "lay bare the fascinating underworld of contemporary culture".

Tiegs

Infernus, the stage name of Norwegian black metal musician Roger Tiegs