Black powder weapons use stone and metal balls as projectiles.

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.

Black metal guitarists usually favor high-pitched guitar tones and heavy distortion.

Black metal songs often stray from conventional song structure and often lack clear verse-chorus sections.

Black metal was originally used as a term for extreme metal bands with Satanic and anti-Christian lyrics ; today, the most common lyrical theme is opposition to Christianity and other organized religions.

Black metal artists often appear dressed in black with combat boots, bullet belts, spiked wristbands and inverted crosses / pentagrams to reinforce their anti-Christian or anti-religious stance.

The term " black metal " was coined by the English band Venom with their second album Black Metal ( 1982 ).

When Bathory's Under the Sign of the Black Mark was released, the album was considered a death metal record.

* 1970 – Black Sabbath, arguably the very first heavy metal album, is released.

Repulsion, from Flint, Michigan, cited street punk groups like Discharge and Charged GBH, crossover thrash such as Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Corrosion of Conformity, thrash metal like Slayer, Metallica, Sodom, and Venom, and death metal ( Possessed ), hardcore punk, like Black Flag, and older hard rock, as inspirational.

Melodic death metal band The Black Dahlia Murder produced " Throne of Lunacy " and " Thy Horror Cosmic " based on the Cthulhu Mythos.

Led Zeppelin have influenced hard rock and heavy metal bands such as Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Rush, Queen, and Megadeth as well as progressive metal bands like Tool and Dream Theater.

Black metal and death metal music often emphasize nihilistic themes.

The Kuru kingdom corresponds to the Black and Red Ware and Painted Grey Ware cultures and to the beginning of the Iron Age in South Asia, around 1000 BCE, as well as with the composition of the Atharvaveda, the first Vedic text to mention iron, as, literally " black metal.

Some of speed metal's earlier influences include Black Sabbath's " Children of the Grave ", Deep Purple's " Fireball " and Queen's " Stone Cold Crazy " ( which was eventually covered by the thrash metal band Metallica ), from their 1974 album Sheer Heart Attack, and Deep Purple's song " Highway Star ", from their album Machine Head.

Black = solid, red = tube used for the spar, green = foam, wood, honeycomb, or sheet metal used for the ribs.

** Geezer Butler, British heavy metal bassist ( Black Sabbath )

* February 13 – Black Sabbath's debut album, Black Sabbath released ; often regarded as the first true heavy metal album.

* February 19 – Sven Erik Kristiansen Norwegian Black metal and hardcore punk singer ( Maniac )

* Acid Black Cherry, a Japanese Rock band

* Black Sun Empire, a Dutch drum & bass band

* Black Flag ( band ), a music group

The band played in this style on their first four albums: Bathory ( 1984 ), The Return of the Darkness and Evil ( 1985 ), Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ) and Blood Fire Death ( 1988 ).

The album's release was followed by news that there would be no tour to promote the LP, that drummer Bevan was now playing drums for Black Sabbath and that bassist Kelly Groucutt had left the band.

After performing for the short-lived Washington D. C .- based band State of Alert in 1980, Rollins fronted the California hardcore punk band Black Flag from August 1981 until mid-1986.

Along with the fellow Washington, D. C. hardcore band Bad Brains and California band Black Flag, Minor Threat set the standard for many hardcore punk bands in the 1980s and 1990s.

In the time between the release of the band's second seven-inch EP and the Out of Step record, the band briefly split when guitarist Lyle Preslar moved to Illinois to attend college for a semester at Northwestern University, Preslar was a member of Big Black for a few tempestuous rehearsals.

Guns, Trapt, Faster Pussycat, Black Veil Brides, Hollywood Trash ( Canadian Rock band from the early 1990s ) and Supergroupies among others.

Unlike previous recordings, the band had little time to practice beforehand, and Black Francis wrote much of the album in the studio.

In 2010, King collaborated with musician Shooter Jennings and his band Hierophant, providing the narration for their album, Black Ribbons.

With the departure of Dom Salvador to the United States, the band broke up, but at the beginning of the 1970s, some ex-members, including Luiz Carlos, José Carlos Barroso, and Oberdan joined Christovao Bastos, Jamil Joanes, Cláudio Stevenson and Lúcio da Silva to form Banda Black Rio.

Macainsh played with John Farnham on his Whispering Jack Tour and with Dave Warner's from the Suburbs, in 1988 he put together and managed a very successful AC / DC tribute band called Back in Black who went on to support Skyhooks on their comeback tour.

None of the band came from Guildford: Black is from Ilford, Burnel from Notting Hill, Cornwell from Kentish Town and Greenfield from Brighton, while Wärmling came from Sweden and returned there after leaving the band.

Cornwell was a blues musician prior to forming the band and had briefly been a bandmate of Richard Thompson, Burnel had been a classical guitarist who had performed with symphony orchestras, Jet Black was a jazz drummer, and Dave Greenfield had played at military bases in Germany.

In May 2006, Roberts left the band, and The Stranglers were now back to a four-piece line-up: Burnel, Black, Greenfield and Warne, with the lead vocals shared between Warne and Burnel.

On 4 November 2007, the band ( with Black ) played a sell-out gig at the Roundhouse in Camden, North London, marking the thirtieth anniversary of their headline run at the same venue in 1977.

However, Black was back with the band for their UK tour later in the year.

Singleton also played in local band Black Cat Bone.

This arrangement was issued on their second LP, In the Wake of Poseidon, although for copyright reasons it was renamed " The Devil's Triangle " and Robert Fripp claimed authorship, with Holst receiving no composer credit. A third progressive-rock band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, performed an arrangement of " Jupiter " with lyrics which they entitled " Joybringer ". Black Metal / Viking Metal band Bathory arranged a section of " Jupiter " as the melody of the song " Hammerheart ", from the album Twilight of the Gods.

Bathory's 1984 first album, Bathory, and the subsequent releases The Return ( 1985 ) and Under the Sign of the Black Mark ( 1987 ), are now regarded as major influences on the Norwegian bands which extended black metal's musical progression and popularity in the beginning of the 1990s.

On 3 June 2006, Black Mark Records released a box set in tribute to Quorthon, containing three CDs of his favorite Bathory and Quorthon songs, a 176 page booklet, a DVD with his long-form video for " One Rode to Asa Bay ", an interview and some rare promo footage and a poster.

The Best of Old-School Black Metal, which included selected tracks from such influential artists as Celtic Frost, Hellhammer, Burzum, and Bathory.

*" Báthory Erzsébet " from Black One can be said to be a loose ( even by Sunn standards ) cover of " A Fine Day to Die " by Bathory.

Under the Sign of the Black Mark is the third studio album by Swedish metal band Bathory.

AllMusic wrote, " Under the Sign: The Sign of the Black Mark remains a career highlight for Bathory, and a crucial LP for all lovers of extreme metal.