Black Metal

Newcastle band whose name and album titles seeded black metal.

Quorthon's solo-vehicle Swedish project that pioneered Scandinavian black metal.

Notorious Norwegian black-metal originators whose 'De Mysteriis' is canonical.

Solo black-metal project whose lo-fi atmospherics shaped the genre's sound.

Norwegian duo whose 'A Blaze in the Northern Sky' is a black-metal touchstone.

Norwegian black-metal innovators of orchestral grandeur.

Norwegian black-metal stalwarts of frostbitten riffs and corpsepaint imagery.

Norwegian band that arc-ed from raw black metal into progressive territory.

Norwegian symphonic black-metal band who pushed the genre to mainstream metal.

Suffolk extreme-metal theatre with literary horror at its core.

Tampa blasphemous death-metal band of single-topic notoriety.