Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016

Black metal is an extreme subgenre and subculture of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieking (sometimes growling or both) vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphasis on atmosphere, though many other characteristics and techniques may be employed. Artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms.

During the 1980s, several thrash and death metal bands formed a prototype for black metal. This so-called first wave included bands such as Venom, Bathory, Mercyful Fate, Hellhammer and Celtic Frost. A second wave arose in the early 1990s, spearheaded by Norwegian bands such as Mayhem, Darkthrone, Burzum, Gorgoroth, Immortal and Emperor. The early Norwegian black metal scene developed the style of their forebears into a distinct genre. Norwegian-inspired black metal scenes emerged throughout Europe and North America, although some other scenes developed their own styles independently. Some prominent Swedish bands spawned during this second wave. Bands such as Marduk, Nifelheim and Dark Funeral are notable examples.

Initially a synonym for "Satanic metal," black metal is often met with hostility from mainstream culture, due to the actions and ideologies associated with it. Many artists express extreme anti-Christian and misanthropic views, advocating various forms of Satanism or ethnic paganism. In the 1990s, members of the scene were responsible for a spate of church burnings and murders. There is also a small neo-Nazi movement within black metal, although it has been shunned by many prominent artists. Generally, black metal strives to be inaccessible to the mainstream and those who are not committed. This's Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016. Check it out.

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Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Arise In Impurity from Orobas

- Type: EP. Released on May 20th, 2016 via Symbol of Domination Prod.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Carved By The Winds Eternal from Dizziness, Lord Impaler, and Hell Poemer

Type: Split Album. Released on May 25th, 2016 via Symbol of Domination Prod.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Come the Colorless Dawn from True Black Dawn

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 17th, 2016 via World Terror Committee. Artwork by Jukka Sikala. Design by Babalon Graphics.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Cult of the Blackened Veil from Lustravi

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 6th, 2016 via Obscure Musick.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Embodied in Incense from Cvinger

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 23rd, 2016 via Art Gates Records. Artwork by Paolo Girardi.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Empires of Ash from Sojourner

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 25th, 2016. Cover Art by Jordan Grimmer.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Exilé Aux Confins Des Tourments from Enoid

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 5th, 2016 via Satanath Records and Black Plague Records. Cover art by Maxime Taccardi.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Fidem in Lucifer from Kurgaall

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 15th, 2016 via Pagan War Distro Rex.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Grief Relic from Withered

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 27th, 2016 via Season of Mist. Cover art by Paul Romano.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: In Pieces from Oak Pantheon

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 16th, 2016. Art and Layout by Kat Law Art.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Incest from Serpentine Creation

- Released on May 28th, 2016 via Metal Masala.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Infirmos Vocat Deus Fidei from Wormreich, Diabolus Amator, Gravespawn, and Vesterian

- Type: Split Album. Released on May 28th, 2016 via Symbol of Domination Prod.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Innenwelt from Firtan

- Type: EP. Released on May 6th, 2016 via Nothern Silence Productions. Layout by Oliver König.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Maestro from Winterhorde

-Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 20th, 2016 via ViciSolum Productions. Artwork by Eliran Kantor. Design and Layout by Costin Chioreanu.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Magnus nigrum ignis from Immatura Morte

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 18th, 2016.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Mantras Within Ascending Fire from Serpent Spells

- Type: EP. Released on May 31st, 2016 via Godz Ov War Productions. Cover art Michael Capili.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Messiah from Elderblood

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 27th, 2016 via Osmose Productions. Cover and Album Art by S. Mortem.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Singularity from Stortregn

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 27th, 2016 via Non Serviam Records. Cover art by Juan José Castellano Rosado.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Termestella Cvltvs from Bestialized

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 21st, 2016 via Satanath Records and Murdher Records.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: The Conspiring Archon's from Archons Valiant

- Type: Full Length Album. Released on May 13th, 2016 via Necro Records.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: V​.​I​.​T​.​R​.​I​.​O​.​L from Pénitence Onirique

- Type: EP. Released on May 21st, 2016.

Best Black Metal Cover in May 2016: Vanskapt from Avslut

- Type: EP. Released on May 1st, 2016. Artwork and Logo by Chainsaw Design.

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