Your way in
Atmospheric black metal 1994
Long songs, hypnotic repetition and synth textures. The landscape matters more than the riff.
- Heaviness
- 8
- Speed
- 7
- Melody
- 6
- Where from
- Global
- Tempo
- 90-200 bpm
- Song length
- 7-15 min
- Written about
- Landscape, Seasons and deep time, Grief, Ecology, on the American side
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Atmospheric black metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| A growl or a shriek When someone is singing, what should come out? | harsh | 100% | ×3 |
| Heavy. I want to feel it. How much weight do you want behind it? | 8 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| As fast as anyone can play What pace? | 7 out of 10 | 70% | ×2 |
| Long. Let it go somewhere. How long should a song be? | up to 15 min | 100% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 93% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 4 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, length 1 out of 8. Atmospheric black metal leads the next by 2 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Darkthrone, A Blaze in the Northern Sky 1992
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky. The production is intentional, not a flaw.
- 2The one to put on first
Wolves in the Throne Room, Two Hunters 2007
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters. Four tracks, close to an hour.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Black metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Atmospheric black metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Technical death metal 90%
Death metal with jazz harmony, tapping and impossible drumming. The more notes per second, the better.
4 steps from Atmospheric black metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Technical death metal -
Powerviolence 88%
Hardcore taken to the limit: abrupt tempo shifts, twenty-second songs, blast beats cut with parts as slow as tar.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 7 steps from Atmospheric black metal.
The way into Powerviolence
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- A growl or a shriek put 78 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 8.
- As fast as anyone can play put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Doom metal, Drone metal, Funeral doom. Worth 2 of 8.
- Long. Let it go somewhere. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 8.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.