Black metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music that emerged from the elements of extreme metal, such as thrash metal and death metal, in the 1980s. The black metal sound is marked by sonically powerful instrumentation, dissonant production values, a shrieking vocal style, macabre visual elements such as “corpse paint” makeup, and metal songs with a lyrical focus on anti-Christian themes, Satanism, paganism, Norse and Viking mythology, and apocalyptic visions.

"I would rather sit at home and cut myself than go to parties"
(Eorunymous explains why he is not popular in school)

"I think it's a big turn to walk on the street and kick a little kid"
(Burzum, 1992,)