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The best way to do that would be to listen to a bunch of black metal and figure it out for yourself. Stereotypical black metal based on the early 90s Norwegian sound has blastbeats, tremolo-picked guitar parts, high-pitched screaming vocals, lots of reverb, and often shitty recording quality, but none of those ingredients is essential. We have a recommendation thread in the black metal subforum with a lot of music for you to peruse.

You'll get some purists insisting that black metal is only "real" if it's Satanic, which I disagree with, but that's a different conversation.

 

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FA said it much better than I could ^

I would just add that also key to Black Metal is the aesthetic of the music and the feelings it connotes, which include but are not limited to: sadness, transcendental thoughts, spiritual beliefs/blasphemy (namely in the name of Satanism or various forms of Paganism), pain, depression, the melancholic essence of winter, and admiration for the strength of nature. I know that's not the most coherent explanation, but those subjects are very important to what I perceive to be the "Black Metal aesthetic".

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It may seem unlikely to some, but I've been feeling the draw of the one man black metal quest recently. I love winter, with it's low burning embers and requiems description moves me, can I substitute lukewarm solipsism for paganism or blasphemy? Please say yes. And while we are on the subject, is digital recording fully acceptable in black metal?

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3 hours ago, Requiem said:

Black metal is the delicate flake of snow on pine needle; the glint of moon through winter clouds; the ember that refuses to burn out; the silent anti-cosmic howl of the human soul; the majesty of death and the night sky. 

Or, as a writer at NCS described it, "a sack full of weasels having hate sex in a steel drum".

47 minutes ago, GorboGorboze said:

It may seem unlikely to some, but I've been feeling the draw of the one man black metal quest recently. I love winter, with it's low burning embers and requiems description moves me, can I substitute lukewarm solipsism for paganism or blasphemy? Please say yes. And while we are on the subject, is digital recording fully acceptable in black metal?

Yes.

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4 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

The coolest part is, that headstone is in a 300-year-old graveyard right around the corner from my house. :D

That sounds very Lovecraftian. From my reading I know you have to be careful around some of those American backwaters, especially around Arkham, Dunwich, Innsmouth. Strange books from the Miskatonic University. You'd better be carefully FA. 

In (sort of) related news, in January my mother took me to see the grave of my great, great, grandfather - my first relative to arrive in Australia from Ireland in the mid 1800s. (My paternal grandfather arrived from Scotland in the 1940s by the way). It was very haunting. I just checked my phone and I didn't even take a photo of it, despite taking heaps of the general area. Good one Requiem...

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4 hours ago, Requiem said:

That sounds very Lovecraftian. From my reading I know you have to be careful around some of those American backwaters, especially around Arkham, Dunwich, Innsmouth. Strange books from the Miskatonic University. You'd better be carefully FA. 

In (sort of) related news, in January my mother took me to see the grave of my great, great, grandfather - my first relative to arrive in Australia from Ireland in the mid 1800s. (My paternal grandfather arrived from Scotland in the 1940s by the way). It was very haunting. I just checked my phone and I didn't even take a photo of it, despite taking heaps of the general area. Good one Requiem...

My biggest concern is getting dumped in the canal, but that could have happened in Brooklyn, too. No kraken lurking in the depths, unfortunately, they're drained too frequently for anything other than ducks to thrive.

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1 hour ago, GorboGorboze said:

I don't think you could spit from Lowell to Dunnwitch...

 

Is that a local Lowell expression? 

 

1 hour ago, FatherAlabaster said:

My biggest concern is getting dumped in the canal, but that could have happened in Brooklyn, too. No kraken lurking in the depths, unfortunately, they're drained too frequently for anything other than ducks to thrive.

One minute it's ducks, the next you've got Nyarlathotep on your ass. Better watch those canals. 

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