What is blackened death metal?

Blackened death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal that combines musical and stylistic elements of both black metal and death metal. The genre emerged in the early 1990s as bands from both subgenres began incorporating traits from the other. It is typically characterized by elements such as death growls, blast beats, tremolo picking, and imagery involving Satanism and corpse paint.

What we know

• Blackened death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that fuses black metal and death metal. [1, 2]
• The genre developed in the early 1990s when black metal and death metal bands started incorporating elements from each other. [2]
• Musical characteristics of the subgenre typically include death growls, tremolo picking, and blast beats. [2]
• Visual and lyrical traits of the genre typically involve Satanic themes, imagery, and corpse paint adapted from black metal. [2]

Where to go next

• the bigger pictureWhat defines black metal music?
• compared withHow does death metal differ in sound?
• a case in pointWhich bands perform in this subgenre?
• whenWhen did the extreme metal scene originate?
• how it workedWhat is corpse paint in heavy metal?
• an unexpected connectionHow do death metal lists connect to black metal subgenres?Directories of death metal bands directly intersect with black metal catalogs through hybrid categories like blackened death metal.

Sources

• [1]blackened death metal (Wikidata Q2599472) · CC0 1.0
• [2]Blackened death metal · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [3]List of death metal bands · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [4]List of blackened death metal bands · CC BY-SA 4.0
• [5]Lists of black metal bands · CC BY-SA 4.0