Black Metal
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Satyricon
Black Metal · Satyr & Frost (Oslo, 1990)
Satyricon, from Oslo, is one of the chart-tier names of Norwegian black metal, Nemesis Divina (1996) a high point of the second wave's dark majesty. It is the same act the machine already keeps a dedi
Ulver
Black Metal · Kristoffer Rygg (Oslo, 1993)
Ulver began in Oslo in 1993 as a folkloric black metal project (the Bergtatt trilogy, drawn from Norwegian fairy tale and the motif of being taken into the mountain) before moving on into wholly other
Emperor
Black Metal · Ihsahn & Samoth (Notodden, 1991)
Emperor, from Notodden, defined symphonic black metal with In the Nightside Eclipse (1994), pairing the genre's intensity with a cosmic, majestic grandeur drawn from European romanticism.In the machin
Immortal
Black Metal · Abbath & Demonaz (Bergen, 1991)
Immortal, from Bergen, built an entire imagined realm, the frostbitten kingdom of Blashyrkh, rather than any political program. The work is winter, cold, and fantasy taken to operatic extremes, one of
Enslaved
Black Metal · Grutle Kjellson & Ivar Bjornson (Norway, 1991)
Enslaved, formed in Norway in 1991, built the bridge from second-wave black metal to a wider Norse and progressive register. Their catalogue is explicitly rooted in Old Norse mythology and the Viking
Bathory
Black Metal · Quorthon (Stockholm, 1983)
Bathory, formed in Stockholm in 1983 around Quorthon, is one of the founding works of black metal and the origin point of Viking metal. The early records set the genre's raw template; the later ones (
