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Depressive black metal (also known as black doom metal, suicidal black metal or simply depressive metal) is a subgenre of black metal and doom metal.

The depressive black metal is distinguished from black classic for the particular sound that, while they retain the main features such as sprains sharp voice and scream sounds deliberately imperfect, on the other if they differ in the use of repetitive sounds and dilated, rich influences doom metal or with inserts of music ambient, with the use of the distorted voice lines, which in turn, become a tool distorted like the others.

History == == It is difficult to reconstruct the history of the genre, if it is true that in the early nineties was born (in Scandinavia) black metal, however, is difficult to say what was the true precursor of this kind : many agree in attributing to the One Man Band Norwegian Burzum, with the album 1993 called Det som engang var. The opera was a great success and, despite being more oriented towards dark ambient sounds, opened the door to a black metal of a more experimental and oppressive.

Another school of thought attributes the birth of this kind to the Norwegian Forgotten Woods and Australian Abyssic Hate, which left both the classic black metal and it changed the sound.

In addition to the current Scandinavian arising and connected to the Norwegian black metal scene, there is a second wave music: the Legion Noire (the scene black French), which proposed a music bands comparable, in some respects depression. They play it a black metal since more dilated and melancholy, certainly far from the classical Scandinavian school. Among the first group of this scene there are Celestia and between groups who made famous the scene there are deadly and Nocturnal Depression. Among the modern and current groups may include also the Dutch Urfaust, depressing own style and sang with a sulfur and primitive.

Music == Features == The musical characteristics of this kind are quite difficult to pin down. While the genre proposes the use of mainly screaming, sharp sounds characterized by distortions in the treble, recording sound confusing and often deliberately not sought and usually dark and claustrophobic atmosphere, it can differentiate greatly.

In fact, the current North American, with bands like Judas Iscariot and Leviathan play a depressive black metal still very aggressive, where their sharp riffs of black metal guitar riffs give way to oppressive and dark. Also in America, Xasthur adopts a sound closer to the European lenses and marciscenti guitar riffs and a slow pace and resigned.

The European groups instead adopt a slower anchored to the traditional black, much slower and obsessive. Flourishing are both the scene with Scandinavian Norwegian Forgotten Woods and Swedish Hypothermia, Shining and Silencer and the 'scene French 'with bands like Celestia, the deadly and Nocturnal Depression and the German scene where we can find Wigrid and Nyktalgia. Also be noted that, especially in Europe, the genre is slowly evolving: greatly improving the quality of register by guitar riffs even closer to doom metal and adding new sound traditional instruments such as piano and acoustic guitars. Some of the most significant groups of this stylistic evolution are Nocturnal Depression and the recent work of Shining, the Exiled from Light, the Winds of Sorrow  and the Italians Beatrik and Dark Paranoia.

Topics == == Even the themes generally differ from the classic black metal scene. If the latter, the key issues are the pagan, the misanthropy and nihilism, depressive black metal in all matters of a more introspective are taken to the extreme and exaggerated.

In fact, black doom metal, the topics covered in the songs express a pessimistic view of life. They focus mainly on the solitude, the melancholy, the sadness, the despair, the desolation, the death and suicide and no sense of everything.

Suicidal Black Metal == == Some groups of this scene, such as Shining and Forgotten Tomb, are actually only came to develop the theme of the suicide: these bands are incorporated by some in suicidal depressive black metal, which, however, has the same characteristics as musical depressive normal. Due to these issues in highly personal, introspective and praising solitude, most of the groups depressive black consists of solo artists.

The == depressive black funeral doom fused with == Among the first groups to fuse the depressive black funeral doom metal with influences can be found in the music of the Danes Nortt, have managed to fuse the two sounds in a consistent and constant, expanding even more the times of their sound until it approached that of the funeral, but using sung in the scream.}}

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See also == ==
 * List of groups depressive black metal