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"first wave" black metal(...) 09/02/25(Tue)20:03:57 No.127611908

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"first wave" black metal Anonymous 09/02/25(Tue)20:03:57 No.127611908 Archived

I've been getting back into metal and decided to take the dive into black metal, starting with pic related. I've really liked almost everything I've listened to, especially Bathory, but I've realized so far it's essentially been lo fi thrash (albeit very aggressive thrash).
Compared to the bits and pieces of relatively newer black metal I've heard (90s to present), these first wave bands/albums aren't really all that similar.
Is "first wave" black metal even really a thing? Or is it simply just a bunch of influences and not the genre itself? These albums rock and I'm interested in digging deeper either way but I'm curious to what some people define as "kvlt" and not

Anonymous
09/02/25(Tue)20:06:15 No.127611922

Anonymous 09/02/25(Tue)20:06:15 No.127611922

>>127611908
There’s a difference between proto and first wave bm, which is why this chart sucks

Anonymous
09/02/25(Tue)20:14:00 No.127611975

Anonymous 09/02/25(Tue)20:14:00 No.127611975

>>127611922
That what I figured. What would you consider first wave black metal?

Anonymous
09/02/25(Tue)20:15:06 No.127611988

Anonymous 09/02/25(Tue)20:15:06 No.127611988

>>127611975
Samael - Worship Him and Master’s Hammer - Ritual

Anonymous
09/02/25(Tue)20:32:15 No.127612198

Anonymous 09/02/25(Tue)20:32:15 No.127612198

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First wave black metal was just anything evil and satanic that was heavier than NWOBHM.

Anonymous
09/02/25(Tue)23:07:19 No.127614194

Anonymous 09/02/25(Tue)23:07:19 No.127614194

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"First wave black metal" isn't really a genre but moreso a scene/style.
These bands were called black metal in the 1980s and nearly every "true" black metal band will cite these bands as influences, but most first-wave black metal is not really "black metal" proper.

That being said a lot of first wave black metal towards the late 80s/early 1990s (I think 1991-1992ish is the cut-off between first wave and second wave) started to develop it's own sound within the extreme spectrum of thrash metal that was different from death thrash and other heavier strains of thrash, and there's a few first-wave black metal releases from 1989-1992ish that you can definitely consider proper black metal.

I believe Master's Hammer's The Mass (1989) is the first true, proper black metal release (while still being First Wave since it predates the Norwegian scene). Ahead of it's time by 3-4 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODbxYjuYfqc

Anonymous
09/02/25(Tue)23:10:16 No.127614239

Anonymous 09/02/25(Tue)23:10:16 No.127614239

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>>127614194
And another example of first-wave black metal from 80s actually sounding like black metal.
Blasphemy's 1989 demo, Blood Upon the Altar. Went on to spawn its own subgenre of black metal (war metal/bestial black metal).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUyMTogIqkI

Anonymous
09/02/25(Tue)23:16:59 No.127614304

Anonymous 09/02/25(Tue)23:16:59 No.127614304

>>127611908
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQpMIR6RuaA
Let Fenriz explain it to you.

Anonymous
09/02/25(Tue)23:20:55 No.127614339

Anonymous 09/02/25(Tue)23:20:55 No.127614339

Only first wave is real

Anonymous
09/03/25(Wed)00:48:52 No.127615406

Anonymous 09/03/25(Wed)00:48:52 No.127615406

>>127611975
hellhammer