--- title: "Blackened Death Metal" type: "MusicGenre" url: "https://themetalnet.com/genre/blackened-death" parent: "Death Metal" bands: 84 era: "early 1990s" --- # Blackened Death Metal **Blackened Death Metal** is a metal sub-genre, formative in the early 1990s. TheMetalNet maps 84 bands and 125 albums under it. Blackened death metal fuses death metal’s heaviness and precision with black metal’s atmosphere, tremolo riffing, and satanic or occult imagery. It grew out of the late-80s murk of Celtic Frost and crystallized through bands like Belphegor and Angelcorpse before Behemoth’s Satanica-era work made it a global force. Expect blasting drums, raspy-yet-guttural vocals, and riffs that swing between death-metal groove and black-metal iciness, all wrapped in grand, blasphemous themes. It is darker and more ceremonial than straight death metal. ## Facts | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Genre | Blackened Death Metal | | Level | Sub-genre | | Parent genre | Death Metal | | Formative era | early 1990s | | Bands | 84 | | Albums | 125 | | Formation span | 1991 to 2024 | ## Notable bands (top 60 by prominence) - [Arkhon Infaustus](https://themetalnet.com/band/arkhon-infaustus) (1997) - [Insidious Disease](https://themetalnet.com/band/insidious-disease) (Norway, 2004) - [Mantak](https://themetalnet.com/band/mantak) (Malaysia, 1995) - [Norse](https://themetalnet.com/band/norse) (Australia, 2005) - [Crow Black Sky](https://themetalnet.com/band/crow-black-sky) (South Africa, 2009) - [Crust](https://themetalnet.com/band/crust) (Russia, 2014) - [Epping Forest](https://themetalnet.com/band/epping-forest) (Portugal, 1997) - [Excruciate](https://themetalnet.com/band/excruciate) (Australia, 1999) - [Zmey Gorynich](https://themetalnet.com/band/zmey-gorynich) (Russia, 2012) - [Bleeding Red](https://themetalnet.com/band/bleeding-red) (Germany, 2006) - [King Satan](https://themetalnet.com/band/king-satan) (Finland, 2015) - [Shadow Cut](https://themetalnet.com/band/shadow-cut) (Finland, 2003) - [Strigoi](https://themetalnet.com/band/strigoi) (United Kingdom, 2018) - [Proscription](https://themetalnet.com/band/proscription) (Finland, 2017) - [Langsuyr](https://themetalnet.com/band/langsuyr) (Malaysia, 1991) - [Netherwalker](https://themetalnet.com/band/netherwalker) (United States) - [Dakhma](https://themetalnet.com/band/dakhma) (Switzerland, 2014) - [In Chasms Deep](https://themetalnet.com/band/in-chasms-deep) (United States, 2011) - [Kilju](https://themetalnet.com/band/kilju) (Finland, 2004) - [Deadspawn](https://themetalnet.com/band/deadspawn) (2009) - [Decipher](https://themetalnet.com/band/decipher) (Greece, 2017) - [Helvegen](https://themetalnet.com/band/helvegen) (Sweden, 2013) - [Nexorum](https://themetalnet.com/band/nexorum) (2019) - [Ov Ruin](https://themetalnet.com/band/ov-ruin) - [Sidus Atrum](https://themetalnet.com/band/sidus-atrum) (2019) - [Front](https://themetalnet.com/band/front) (Finland, 2015) - [Abyssal Frost](https://themetalnet.com/band/abyssal-frost) (2018) - [Obscura Qalma](https://themetalnet.com/band/obscura-qalma) (Italy, 2018) - [Funeral Pile](https://themetalnet.com/band/funeral-pile) - [Polemicist](https://themetalnet.com/band/polemicist) - [Tanin'iver](https://themetalnet.com/band/tanin-iver) - [Witchbones](https://themetalnet.com/band/witchbones) (2018) - [Ancient Thrones](https://themetalnet.com/band/ancient-thrones) (2018) - [Darklore](https://themetalnet.com/band/darklore) (2013) - [Pure Evil](https://themetalnet.com/band/pure-evil) (Finland, 2006) - [Saturno](https://themetalnet.com/band/saturno) (Chile, 2018) - [Abyss](https://themetalnet.com/band/abyss) (Germany, 2009) - [Qayin Regis](https://themetalnet.com/band/qayin-regis) (Spain, 2017) - [Apocryfal](https://themetalnet.com/band/apocryfal) (Finland, 2009) - [Screamin’ Daemon](https://themetalnet.com/band/screamin-daemon) (2003) - [Spell of Torment](https://themetalnet.com/band/spell-of-torment) (Finland, 2013) - [Hebephrenique](https://themetalnet.com/band/hebephrenique) (Australia, 2021) - [Neutron Hammer](https://themetalnet.com/band/neutron-hammer) (Finland, 2003) - [Shamash](https://themetalnet.com/band/shamash) (Denmark, 2012) - [Tartarus Depth](https://themetalnet.com/band/tartarus-depth) (2014) - [Accursed](https://themetalnet.com/band/accursed-38b25072) (2001) - [Corpus Mortum](https://themetalnet.com/band/corpus-mortum) (2006) - [Somberspawn](https://themetalnet.com/band/somberspawn) (Colombia, 2019) - [Aash](https://themetalnet.com/band/aash) (2022) - [Büddah](https://themetalnet.com/band/buddah) (Poland) - [Purgatorial](https://themetalnet.com/band/purgatorial) (2024) - [Absolute Kaputtilation](https://themetalnet.com/band/absolute-kaputtilation) (Germany, 2024) - [Malefic by Design](https://themetalnet.com/band/malefic-by-design) (Finland, 2015) - [Who Stole the Cookie From the Cookie Jar](https://themetalnet.com/band/who-stole-the-cookie-from-the-cookie-jar) - [Labor Intvs](https://themetalnet.com/band/labor-intvs) (Finland) - [The Dark Overlords](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-dark-overlords) - [Faustian](https://themetalnet.com/band/faustian) - [Selenoplexia](https://themetalnet.com/band/selenoplexia) (2021) - [Unholy Desecration](https://themetalnet.com/band/unholy-desecration) - [Irönwitch](https://themetalnet.com/band/ironwitch) ## Where it is played - [Finland](https://themetalnet.com/country/fi): 12 bands - [United States](https://themetalnet.com/country/us): 6 bands - [Australia](https://themetalnet.com/country/au): 6 bands - [Germany](https://themetalnet.com/country/de): 4 bands - [Chile](https://themetalnet.com/country/cl): 2 bands - [Italy](https://themetalnet.com/country/it): 2 bands - [Malaysia](https://themetalnet.com/country/my): 2 bands - [United Kingdom](https://themetalnet.com/country/gb): 2 bands ## Bands formed by decade | Decade | Bands formed | | --- | --- | | 1990s | 5 | | 2000s | 18 | | 2010s | 27 | | 2020s | 10 | --- Source: [TheMetalNet https://themetalnet.com/genre/blackened-death](https://themetalnet.com/genre/blackened-death). Catalog data from MusicBrainz and Metal Archives. Full site index: https://themetalnet.com/llms.txt