black_metal | musicfusiongenre | death_metal <sep> black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphasis on atmosphere artists often appear in corpse paint and adopt pseudonyms during the 1980s, several thrash metal and death metal bands formed a prototype for black metal this 'first wave' included bands such as venom, bathory, mercyful fate, hellhammer and celtic frost 
death metal is a musical fusion of black metal.thrash metal and death metal bands formed a prototype for black metal in the 1980s