The first wave of black metal was a musical movement of black metal which lasted from around 1982 until 1991. Stylistically distinct from the genre's...

and adopt pseudonyms. Venom initiated the "first wave" of black metal, with their 1982 album Black Metal giving it its name. In the following years,...

The new wave of British heavy metal (often abbreviated as NWOBHM) was a nationwide musical movement that began in England in the mid-1970s and achieved...

the style. War metal (also known as war black metal or bestial black metal) is a genre derived primarily from first-wave black metal, while incorporating...

include first-wave black metal band Sodom, first-wave black metal/death metal band Possessed as well as old grindcore, black and death metal bands like...

the first wave of black metal, largely founding the early Norwegian black metal scene. The band drew on the influence of the first wave of black metal such...

This is a list of bands who were a part of the first wave of black metal, which took place between roughly 1982 and 1991. Bathory Blasphemy Bulldozer...

Speed metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that originated in the late 1970s from new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) roots. It is described...

the first-wave black metal albums that helped shape the genre. Their second album, The Laws of Scourge, was one of the first technical death metal records...

that its title was used as the name of the black metal genre; as a result, Venom were part of the first wave of the genre, along with Mercyful Fate and...

influence of heavy metal bands such as Hellhammer, Motörhead and Trouble. The influence of these bands led to the genre's first wave with Hellbastard,...

the new wave of British heavy metal, the album is considered to be a major influence on the speed metal, thrash metal, death metal and black metal scenes...

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metal" was even present in Steppenwolf's 1968 song "Born to Be Wild", in reference to a motorcycle. List of biker metal bands Speed metal First-wave black...

bands in the new wave of British heavy metal such as Iron Maiden and Saxon followed in a similar vein. By the end of the decade, heavy metal fans became known...

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1987), and are among the major American black metal bands to have emerged early during the second wave of black metal. Under the direction of Paul Ledney...

structures. During the 1980s, several thrash metal bands formed a prototype for black metal. This so-called "first wave" included bands such as Venom, Bathory...

Christian themes) and the occult, Mercyful Fate was part of the first wave of black metal in the early to mid-1980s, along with Venom and Bathory. The band...

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Cimex, emerged the country's first extreme metal band Bathory. Subsequently, becoming a primary influence for the black metal scene, Bathory were a pivotal...

as suicidal black metal, depressive black metal, or DSBM, is a style that melds the second wave-style of black metal with doom metal, with lyrics revolving...

National Socialist black metal (also known as NSBM or Nazi black metal) is a small movement within the black metal music genre that promotes neo-Nazism...

because black metal's pioneers, especially those of the Second Wave, were anti-Christian. It is also suggested that Christianity contradicts black metal's dark...

original vocalist of Brazilian thrash metal band Sepultura, and for having created and led the first-wave black/thrash metal band Sarcófago from 1985 until it...

milestone in the development of second wave black metal. Released on April 1, 1991, Worship Him was the first full-length album released by the newly...

Inveracity" (1991) has been credited by Rolling Stone as the first slam riff in death metal. The first wave of bands in the genre were New York bands like Internal...

Infernäl Mäjesty is a Canadian thrash metal band, formed in 1986 and now based in Vancouver. They are best known for their debut album None Shall Defy...

from Metal.de also reviewed the album and stated that it can be categorised somewhere between the first wave of black metal as well as speed metal and...

went on to be influential in the development of the new wave of American heavy metal, nu metal and metalcore, and continued to gain traction in the 2000s...