Favourite type of Black Metal

Atmospheric Black metal for me. Seconded by avant-garde and prog black!

AGBM

I didn't know there were so many kinds of black metal, it's like the Ford of metal... any genre you want as long as it's black

I've been planning to give it a listen.

That's definitely a really weird album cover too. I love it.

It was.

Alex wrote: Came in from work recently and she was listening to a band called Todesstoß and my reaction was literally 'what the fuck is this?'

That Todesstoß is some dark stuff though. New territory for me even. I recommend it though.

Vim Fuego wrote: I forgot, I'm male. I only have about a 16 colour palette, so black metal it is! Erm, and I voted for it four times. Not trying to skew the survey, it just kept giving me the option...

I thought that option being turned on would allow people to change their mind, rather than keep voting over and over.

Serious fault in the system, that. I shan't be using it again whenever I next make a poll.

666sharon666 wrote: I'm pretty sure by Black/speed Ashley means blackened speed metal.

I suppose I do. I took a fair few of these terms off of pages on the site.

I'd recommend anyone who is interested in but struggles with black metal to try out the melodic black metal bands. They tend to be more riff driven and with better production than other types.

http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/subgenre/melodic-black-metal

You're right though, there is a lot of overlap here. Some of these options could in fact mean the same thing.

As Adam said a few posts back, Cosmic Black Metal is just atmospheric black metal. It just as a spacey theme to it which may include space ambient elements, but at the end of the day it's still atmospheric black metal. So is blackgaze really, though it's at the lightest end of that spectrum. To be honest a lot of Black/Sludge would also fit as atmospheric black metal as most such bands draw on post-sludge.

So called War Metal is a black/death hybrid so is basically the same as voting for Black/Death as it's written here. I'm presuming that like with Black/speed metal the black/death metal option means blackened death metal though. Of course none of those sounds are really types of black metal, but other genres influenced by black metal.

I'm not convinced on this black 'n' roll option though. The only bands I have heard called that are Kvelertak and Vreid. Kvelertak isn't even considered to be (primarily) a black metal act by most accounts, whereas Vreid is definitely melodic black metal. At the very least, it's not a developed style like death 'n' roll is.