History NightmareFuel / BlackMetal

* The corpse paints look quite not-so-human, easily putting them in UncannyValley with absolutely no room for {{Fanservice}}. Some bands would even go as far as making it look very demonic, making them look HumanoidAbomination. And if that wasn't enough, a few of them would even mix the paint with fake, or worse, ''real'' blood, adding an extra {{Squick}} factor to the whole deal.

*** In fact, Gorgoroth, Watain, and Deathspell Omega are so notorious that [[NightmareFuel/{{Gorgoroth}} they warrant]] [[NightmareFuel/{{Watain}} their]] [[NightmareFuel/DeathspellOmega own pages]].

** There's also blackened death metal, which goes for death metal's pure, unadulterated aggression with chugging guitars, pummeling blast beats, demonic death growls, and gruesome depictions of gore, rape, mutilation, and murder mixed with Satanism, chaotic atmosphere, and dark portrayals of mythology within the lyrics.

** Speaking of Dead, [[https://youtu.be/_2gCBSH5IsM Mayhem fans recorded their own Dead impersonation on De Mysteriis dom Satanas]] [[https://youtu.be/hMyvoNPioLo and Life Eternal]]. Not only do the vocals bear ''creepily close'' resemblance to Dead's, but with Attila's vocals still in the background, it created a ''fucking grim atmosphere''.

** "Disharmonium - Nahab" follow up to Undreamable Abbysses takes it's dark CosmicHorror atmosphere and ups it up to 11, while retaining strong guitar driven core.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvj7hwbpj6U Equimanthorn]] from ''Under the Sign of the Black Mark'' is probably the angriest sounding song in the band's entire discography. It is also noteworthy that this song was featured on the soundtrack of ''Film/{{Gummo}}''.

*** War's cover [[https://youtu.be/HIYD-dzytmg of the song only its increases the horror nature there]].

** Hell, most of Mories' projects also count. Aderlating basically takes the ambient elements of [=GTT=] and takes them to their horrific conclusion, De Magia Verterum take black metal and twists it into something that is [[UncannyValley horrifyingly alien yet unsettlingly recognizable as such]], and Black Mouth of Spite can best be described as Gnaw Their Tongues meets bestial black metal. It should say something that Mories himself decided that he needed to focus on more positive material via Seirom due to how utterly terrifying the rest of his discography is.
* Stalaggh: This vaguely BlackMetal-related noise project consists of the sound of insane people straight out of mental wards locked up together in cathedrals, toppling over each other frantically while shrieking endlessly and inadvertently evoking the sound of the complete chaos, confusion and all-consuming sorrow lurking in the most base end of the human psyche, and is pretty much the most unnerving thing you could ever hope to listen to. The "performers" supposedly consented to take part in these recordings, though it's been called into question whether anyone that far gone into mental instability can really consent to being exploited for art in this way; thus, Stalaggh has always been a very controversial act and is often name-checked among BlackMetal acts known for their often exaggerated crimes against humanity. (If you're wondering how this counts as BlackMetal, there are trem riffs hidden in the cacophony occasionally, but they don't serve as much more than window dressing for obvious reasons). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O5Px3_RJ3w Listen here]].

* Unblack metal project Horde's "Thine Hour Hast Come" has very dark lyrics based on Isaiah 14, in which the king of Babylon tries to set himself above Yahweh. One lyric bluntly describes their punishment of being imprisoned in the depths of Hell as a FateWorseThanDeath.

* Unblack metal project Horde's Thine Hour Hast Come has very dark lyrics based on Isaiah 14, in which it is describing an earthly king trying to idolize himself above Yahweh, one lyric even describe bluntly to be FateWorseThanDeath.

*** In the darkest and saddest form of irony possible, NSBM arose fast and far within the Slavic countries, the ''very'' people actual Nazis wanted and attempted to exterminate. HarsherInHindsight, much?

* As dark as Norwegian black metal gets, Japan can outdo Norway with the band Music/{{Sigh}} - all of their material are more than powerful enough to send chills down your spine.
* Utarm: Album Apocryphal Stories is complete descend into madness and pits of hell. This Experimental Black mixed in with Noise music creates a whole soundscape of emotions, from calm almost circus sounding music with spoken word through black metal riffs to completely uncomprehensible harsh noise with added screeches and demonic sounds as a bonus. Complete with [[https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273313141eb4ddb887383518b9c album cover]] that looks like it was drawn by a child that has seen things beyond our comprehension.

* Utarm: Album Apocryphal Stories is complete descend into madness and pits of hell. This Experimental Black mixed in with Noise music creates a whole soundscape of emotions, from calm almost circus sounding music with spoken word through black metal riffs to completely uncomprehensible harsh noise with added screeches and demonic sounds as a bonus. Complete with [[https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273313141eb4ddb887383518b9c album cover]] that looks like it was drawn by a child that has seen things.

* Music/Utarm: Album Apocryphal Stories is complete descend into madness and pits of hell. This Experimental Black mixed in with Noise music creates a whole soundscape of emotions, from calm almost circus sounding music with spoken word through black metal riffs to completely uncomprehensible harsh noise with added screeches and demonic sounds as a bonus. Complete with [[https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b273313141eb4ddb887383518b9c album cover]] that looks like it was drawn by a child that has seen things.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifDlckCGSBU "Regression to the Mean"]] is a great example - it has a heavily distorted air-raid siren blaring in the distance, a choir in the background offsetting that, and [[Music/{{Mayhem}} Atilla Csihar's]] ominous growls, which are then distorted even more to create a truly unnerving soundscape.

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*** Although Mayhem isn't a RABM band, Euronymous favored the repressive regimes such as [[UsefulNotes/SovietRussiaUkraineAndSoOn Soviet Union]] under UsefulNotes/JosephStalin and his reasoning was how cold and brutal they were, as he once said he'd love to see people he hated suffer in concentration camps, which speaks of his mental state even more. He was also an ardent proponent of sodomy, rape, and murder [[ForTheEvulz simply because they were evil acts]].