Your way in
Raw black metal 1993
Lo-fi production taken to the extreme, often recorded straight to tape. The noise is part of the composition.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 8
- Melody
- 2
- Where from
- Global
- Tempo
- 160-240 bpm
- Song length
- 3-7 min
- Written about
- Misanthropy, Isolation, Nature, hostilely, Refusal of an audience
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Raw black metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| A growl or a shriek When someone is singing, what should come out? | harsh | 100% | ×3 |
| Heavy. I want to feel it. How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| Quick and driving What pace? | 8 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| Somewhere else entirely What should the words be about? | Misanthropy, Isolation, Nature, hostilely, Refusal of an audience | 50% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 2 out of 10 | 90% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 91% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, about 1, melody 1 out of 9. Raw black metal leads the next by 2 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Darkthrone, A Blaze in the Northern Sky 1992
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky. The production is intentional, not a flaw.
- 2The one to put on first
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Black metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Raw black metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Melodic death metal 89%
Iron Maiden-style guitar harmonies over screamed vocals. The Gothenburg scene later became the foundation of American metalcore.
4 steps from Raw black metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Melodic death metal -
Crust punk 87%
D-beat soaked in metal and mud: thick tone, apocalyptic themes, trousers unwashed since 1989.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Raw black metal.
The way into Crust punk
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- A growl or a shriek put 78 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 9.
- Somewhere else entirely put 106 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 9.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. Worth 1 of 9.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.