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Death Metal Vs Black Metal
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The obvious difference is the lyrics of black metal will be more about satan/evil/depressive topics whereas death will usually be more violent and agressive.
Black metal vocals are shrieked while death metals are growled.
Black metal is much more atmospheric and less technical than most death metal.
Black metal vocals are shrieked while death metals are growled.
Black metal is much more atmospheric and less technical than most death metal.
PhlegethonVeins
Autopsy Obsessed
Death metal is more blunt, sometimes technical, sometimes catchy and rhythm based where as black metal tends to focus more on atmosphere and an overall sound.
Definitely rhythms and overall aesthetics.
To name a few differences,
Death metal is generally more abrasive and unstable sounding. Death metal is typically more complex with a higher emphasis on rhythms, and guitar solos are also more common.
Black metal focuses more on creating an atmosphere(often cold and dark) when it comes to production and playing style. Black metal generally has riffs that are more defined and stable. These riffs are often very evil sounding. Black metal is also known for having unorthodox song structures.
To name a few differences,
Death metal is generally more abrasive and unstable sounding. Death metal is typically more complex with a higher emphasis on rhythms, and guitar solos are also more common.
Black metal focuses more on creating an atmosphere(often cold and dark) when it comes to production and playing style. Black metal generally has riffs that are more defined and stable. These riffs are often very evil sounding. Black metal is also known for having unorthodox song structures.
Thralldom
Winter of My Bliss
Although both genres originated from thrash metal and related music, they are pretty different at the core. Death metal has a focus on crushing heaviness and often shows heavy technical ability in instrumentation while black metal is usually more undefined in song structure and tends to place for focus on emotional and atmospheric impact created through minimalistic song structures. However, despite their musical emphasis tending to be different, both styles are heavily related and there is a lot of music that credibly bridges the two into one style. Death metal can be atmospheric and stripped down to a raw element and black metal can be crushingly heavy and technically proficient. The speed of both genres can also vary heavily.
Overall, there's not a lot of point in trying to compare and contrast the two.
Overall, there's not a lot of point in trying to compare and contrast the two.
Death metal is way better IMO. More diversity,heavier & better vocals. Chuck S John Tardy Johnny Hedlund Johann Hegg exc.. are all death metals singers but sound different from each other. Musically it's miles better too. Most Black Metal sounds like shit. I get they are going for minimal production & I like Venom & Dimmu & a few others but most of it sounds like noise with a little kid screaming for his milk. Plus the whole dressing up like Dracula is kind of gay
Thralldom
Winter of My Bliss
Anyone who knows anything can tell that you have a very weak scope of black metal, especially when you imply that it isn't stylistically diverse.
The appearance of a musician has a minimal impact on their music, so why even attempt to bring that up?
The appearance of a musician has a minimal impact on their music, so why even attempt to bring that up?
Thralldom
Winter of My Bliss
Choptop Sawyer said:
You can't listen to Beherit, Summoning, Averse Sefira, Venom and Master's Hammer and tell me that any of them sound alike. That's just five bands, so imagine how much more variation you'd find if you listened to fifty or even a hundred.
Not all black metal is about ignorant Satanism anyway. Also, the early Gorgoroth music (prior to Gaahl even being in the band) is the only music they've released that is regarded as good by serious black metal enthusiasts.
You are ignorant. Enlighten yourself before you speak like you know something, child.
Draehl
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Master_Yoda77
Juggalo
Lulz, I'm a serious black metal enthusiast and I prefer Gaahl-era Gorgoroth. I think the very underrated Twilight of the Idols is actually their strongest release.
Antichrist is very enjoyable despite it's short length, but I've never really understood the praise for Pentagram.
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We recently had a debate on whiny fans based on what was said when we talked about them and what youtube comments were left. So, let me ask you who has whinier fans...Adam Lambert or Fear Factory?
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Alteredmindeath
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Death metal is usually has lower growl vocals, tuned down guitars and just random technical playing on heavy chords. Usually supported more by the white trash crowd
Black metal has higher pitched screams, more satanic. Usually has lots of speed picking and standard E tuning. Based around classical, punk, and thrash. Usually supported by the rich spoiled brat crowd, Or those that were raised by abusive nuns.
Black metal has higher pitched screams, more satanic. Usually has lots of speed picking and standard E tuning. Based around classical, punk, and thrash. Usually supported by the rich spoiled brat crowd, Or those that were raised by abusive nuns.
Well Faust from Emperor and Nodveidt from Dissection both murdered gay guys so that sort of evens it out for the genre...
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Alteredmindeath
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Heavy metal=freedom of expression.
Freedom to piss off the sheeps
Freedom to piss off the rappers
Freedom to conquer the earth and crush any that stand in the way with no mercy.
Freedom to piss off the sheeps
Freedom to piss off the rappers
Freedom to conquer the earth and crush any that stand in the way with no mercy.
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Death Metal:
Concept:
The name says it all. This is music about death. The death of men and civilizations. The decay of bodies, minds and societies. Disintegration: physical, psychological, spiritual. Where it touches upon the arcane or the occult, it uses these as metaphors chaos, disorder and lawless power unrestrained by moral artifice.
Aesthetic:
Riff forms typically alternate between pulverizing blasts of precise, staccato rhythm, longer tremolo picked phrases, and occasional dirge-tempo doomlike passages. "Melody" lines tend to be built around chromatic movement. Voice-from-the-grave vocals. In general, songs demand a relatively high level of technical proficiency.
Composition:
Songs are built around a remorseless internal logic where each riff or chain of riffs develops and elaborates upon what came before, forming something like a sonic story or a musical travelogue of a descent into hell. Frequentoften uncomfortably radicalshifts of tempo imitate the pervasive experience of disorder in life.
Black Metal:
Concept:
If death metal might be said to be centrally concerned with embracing the inescapable reality of death and disorder, then black metal might usefully be seen as positing a sort of mythic counterorder to the dull, slave order of modern society. Black metal celebrates the vital experience of life pushed to the edge. It is a music of struggle, strife and strident battle. Mindful at the same time of what can be wonand how much has been lost.
Aesthetic:
In general, black metal builds complexity from riffs built around typically simple, treble driven tremolo picked phrases, with occasional forays into more percussive or marchlike territory. Drums are generally deployed to ambient effect, creating a constant pulse rather than helping to define phrase shapes. Shrieked vocals. Melodies generally draw on classical or folk sources.
Composition:
Black metal is constructed from a kind of dream logic. Unlike death metal, songs frequently stray from a purely narrative form, and structure emerges as much through allusion and association as through any purely linear development of a 'story.' Trancelike repetition as a common device reinforces the dream quality, as does production, which often results in a mix where key elements of musical subtext, and often even primary context, can only be indistinctly apprehended as fleetingly resonant tones emerging from the backwash of distortion, only to vanish as if they were half remembered images lost at the edge of sleep and wakefulness.
Concept:
The name says it all. This is music about death. The death of men and civilizations. The decay of bodies, minds and societies. Disintegration: physical, psychological, spiritual. Where it touches upon the arcane or the occult, it uses these as metaphors chaos, disorder and lawless power unrestrained by moral artifice.
Aesthetic:
Riff forms typically alternate between pulverizing blasts of precise, staccato rhythm, longer tremolo picked phrases, and occasional dirge-tempo doomlike passages. "Melody" lines tend to be built around chromatic movement. Voice-from-the-grave vocals. In general, songs demand a relatively high level of technical proficiency.
Composition:
Songs are built around a remorseless internal logic where each riff or chain of riffs develops and elaborates upon what came before, forming something like a sonic story or a musical travelogue of a descent into hell. Frequentoften uncomfortably radicalshifts of tempo imitate the pervasive experience of disorder in life.
Black Metal:
Concept:
If death metal might be said to be centrally concerned with embracing the inescapable reality of death and disorder, then black metal might usefully be seen as positing a sort of mythic counterorder to the dull, slave order of modern society. Black metal celebrates the vital experience of life pushed to the edge. It is a music of struggle, strife and strident battle. Mindful at the same time of what can be wonand how much has been lost.
Aesthetic:
In general, black metal builds complexity from riffs built around typically simple, treble driven tremolo picked phrases, with occasional forays into more percussive or marchlike territory. Drums are generally deployed to ambient effect, creating a constant pulse rather than helping to define phrase shapes. Shrieked vocals. Melodies generally draw on classical or folk sources.
Composition:
Black metal is constructed from a kind of dream logic. Unlike death metal, songs frequently stray from a purely narrative form, and structure emerges as much through allusion and association as through any purely linear development of a 'story.' Trancelike repetition as a common device reinforces the dream quality, as does production, which often results in a mix where key elements of musical subtext, and often even primary context, can only be indistinctly apprehended as fleetingly resonant tones emerging from the backwash of distortion, only to vanish as if they were half remembered images lost at the edge of sleep and wakefulness.
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