Blackmetal aesthetic

trees hovering above the melting snow in a small cemetery in Zlin.

From Bathory's "beastlike vocals" to Celtic Frost's "raw edge," drummer hails early influences

Black metal is a lot of things—bombastic, Wagnerian, nihilistic. Black metal is also the intentional opposite, or rather the opposition to rock and roll’s traditional pursuit of wealth, women, and wine. Whereas other music genres, even metallic ones, search out rosy-colored things, black metal acts