What is the difference between Black Metal and Death Metal music?
The difference between Black Metal and Death Metal is that Black Metal goes more for melody than does Death Metal. Death Metal deals more with horror, and though Black Metal has much more pronounced Satanism, Death Metal bands including Deicide, the godfathers of Death Metal, also describe Satanism and denouncement of religion. Death Metal also works to create a brutality in their music that is not for the faint of heart as in the case of Cannibal Corpse or Mortician, whereas Black Metal (mainly Norweigan Black Metal) works to demonstrate their hatred for Christianity. I am a Death Metalhead, and I hate all established religion too, but at least Death Metal and Satanic Death changes that hatred into anger, all the while attacking other themes of torture, murder, death, necrophilia, and rape in both a meticulous and brutal fashion.
Death metal as its name suggests is solely about death, pain, suffering and destruction. Death metal is usually identified by extreme brutality, intensity and speed. “Blast beats” are frequently used to add to the intensity of the music. The vocals – death grunts, (guttural roars) or “growls”, as they are often called, are rough and often incomprehensible. Similarly, those not familiar with the genre sometimes confuse it with “death rock”, which is an entirely different musical classification altogether. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_metal “Black metal is a musical genre which emerged in the early 1980s predating the great expansion of heavy metal ‘extreme’ genres. It evolved out of thrash metal, like death metal. There are two views on the genre.
Death metal is usually identified by extreme brutality, intensity and speed. “Blast beats” are frequently used to add to the intensity of the music. The vocals – death grunts, (guttural roars) or “growls”, as they are often called, are rough and often incomprehensible. Similarly, those not familiar with the genre sometimes confuse it with “death rock”, which is an entirely different musical classification altogether. “Black metal is a musical genre which emerged in the early 1980s predating the great expansion of heavy metal ‘extreme’ genres. It evolved out of thrash metal, like death metal. There are two views on the genre. One views black metal as a very specific form of music that must adhere to a particular ‘style’ in order for it to be a part of the genre; while the second considers the lyrical and philosophical/political ideology of the music (likely to be heavily inspired from Friedrich Nietzsche) to take more precedence in defining the genre itself, rather than ‘style’.
The lines between black metal and death metal are bluring every day with each new band that emerges. There are many cross-overs, mixes and combinations. In the purest of definitions from a stylistic perspective, there are (or were originally) stark differences, lyrics not withstanding. Death – Vocalist is not singing or screaming but rather forming a percusive sound in the upper section of the esophagus that is 90 % of the time not dependant at all on the diaphram. Death is strictly guitar driven without layering, harmonic or melodic characteristics. The Drums in the original death metal bands are played to sound like machine guns signifying a war-like sound and in early DMA featured guitars shaped like weopons. Black Metal – Vocalist is mixing a scream like a hardcore punk screem that is so overdriven that it distorts into a gritty sound much like the sound of suffering people. This was often mixed with a harmonic element in the same singer who is pressing an actual musical note throu
