3 Essential Bands of Black Metal

As much as black metal has been born wrapped in a mist of violence, nihilism and body paint, its history is much more than a collection of poorly told Scandinavian legends. In its core, it is a music of extremes: spiritual and blasphemous, incendiary and delicate, primitive and philosophical. As a newly veiled photograph, what first seems an intelligible noise finally ends up revealing as a human intensity rarely explored by other genres. It is …