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.

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 )

" BDP used this riff in the song " Remix for P is Free ," and it was later resampled by artists such as Black Star and dead prez.

In a profound sense, he was a man who built bridges between Black artists in varying fields, and between other Americans.

He continues to inspire other artists: the 2007 album Bluefinger by Black Francis is based on the life and works of Brood.

Even international artists such as 50 Cent, Mobb Deep, The Black Eyed Peas, and Chamillionaire have performed in India in cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi, Chennai, and Mumbai.

Inspired by a visit to Japan, Black & More ( Coldcut ) primarily created Ninja Tune in 1990 to act as a vehicle by which they could release music of a more underground nature, free from the restraints placed on artists by major labels ( the same restraints that were put on them via their brief stints with Arista and Big Life ).

Santiago played lead guitar on multiple Frank Black albums, as well as on other artists ' albums.

Examples of artists for whom this is the case include, among others, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, AC / DC, The Beach Boys, Nirvana, Weezer, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Outkast and also Queen.

He used this new series to speak out against this limitation on Black artists, and to emphasize modern art.

Other contemporary video artists of note include Gary Hill ( USA ), Arambilet ( Dominican Republic – Spain ), Fred Forest ( France ), Tony Oursler, Mary Lucier, Paul Pfeiffer, Sadie Benning, Paul Chan, Eve Sussman and Miranda July ; Eija-Liisa Ahtila ( Finland ), Kirill Preobrazhenskiy ( Russia ), Pipilotti Rist ( Switzerland ); Surekha ( India ); Stefano Pasquini ( Italy ); Shaun Wilson ( Australia ); Stan Douglas ( Canada ); Douglas Gordon ( Scotland ); Olga Kisseleva ( Russia ); Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven ( Belgium ); Martin Arnold ( Austria ); Matthias Müller ( Germany ), Heiko Daxl ( Germany ); Gillian Wearing ( UK ); Stefano Cagol ( Italy ); Helene Black ( Cyprus ); Shirin Neshat ( Iran / USA ); Aernout Mik ( Netherlands ), Jordi Colomer ( Spain / France ), Sergei Shutov ( Russia ), and Walid Raad ( Lebanon / USA ).

Black metal artists also adopt pseudonyms, usually symbolizing dark values, such as Nocturno Culto, Gaahl, Abbath, and Silenoz.

* June – August 1929: the revue “ Lew Leslie's Black Birds ”, by a troop of a hundred black artists accompanied by the Jazz Plantation Orchestra, is put on at the Moulin Rouge.

In the mid-1980s, Hughes recorded several different albums with bands and artists including Phenomena ( Phenomena, Phenomena II: Dream Runner ), Gary Moore ( Run For Cover ), and Black Sabbath ( Seventh Star, though this was to have been a solo album by Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi, and only came out as a Sabbath album due to record label pressure ).

Marr particularly hated Morrissey's obsession with covering 1960s pop artists such as Twinkle and Cilla Black.

He has worked as a session musician and writing collaborator with artists including The Pretenders, Bryan Ferry, Pet Shop Boys, Billy Bragg, Black Grape, Talking Heads, Crowded House, and Beck.

He went on to feature on songs by artists including Black Sabbath, David Bowie, T. Rex, Elton John and Cat Stevens.

In Right to Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race ( 2004 ), author Maureen Mahon states: " In the 1980s, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, and Prince were among the African American artists who crossed over ...

Artists like Pen Cayetano helped innovate modern punta rock by adding guitars to the traditional music, and paved the way for later artists like Andy Palacio, Children of the Most High and Black Coral.

Subtitled " electronic listening music from Warp ", the record was a collection of tracks from artists such as Autechre, B12, The Black Dog, Aphex Twin, and The Orb, under various aliases.

During this period, the electronic music produced by Warp Records artists such as Aphex Twin ( an alias of Richard D. James ), Autechre, LFO, B12, Seefeel, and The Black Dog, gained popularity among electronic music fans, as did music by artists on the Rephlex and Skam labels.

Electronica in 2009 gained global recognition as an essential part of most hip hop becoming the core sound on a range of tracks by artists like The Black Eyed Peas and new emerging artists like Tinie Tempah, and in 2010 Daft Punk with the release of the soundtrack for Tron: Legacy.

Blows soundtrack is a compilation of songs and artists from the 1970s, such as: " Can't You Hear Me Knocking " by The Rolling Stones, " All the Tired Horses " by Bob Dylan, " Rumble " by Link Wray, " Glad and Sorry " by Faces, " Strange Brew " by Cream, " Black Betty " by Ram Jam, " Blinded By the Light " by Manfred Mann's Earth Band, " Let's Boogaloo " by Willie Rosario, " Keep It Comin ' Love " by KC & the Sunshine Band, " That Smell " by Lynyrd Skynyrd, " Can't You See " by The Marshall Tucker Band, and " Push & Pull " by Nikka Costa.

However, soon after the CD pressings of White Blossoms from Black Roots had been sent to the distribution company, " the FBI arrested the head of the company for check forgery and seized all of the merchandise ", resulting in loss of access to his artwork, and digital tape masters, as well as to the material prepared for other Solid Rock Imports artists.

Du Bois ' Black Reconstruction, first published in 1935, historians have noted African American contributions during Reconstruction to founding what were often the first systems of public education and welfare institutions in the South, gave muted praise for Republican efforts to extend suffrage and provide other social institutions, and excoriated Johnson for opposing the extension of basic rights to freedmen.

Strabo's Geography ( 1. 2. 10 ) reports that in antiquity, the Black Sea was often just called " the Sea " ( ho pontos ).

English-language writers of the 18th century often used the name " Euxine Sea " ( or ) to describe the Black Sea.

The Black and Tans were not subject to strict discipline in their early months in Ireland and as a result, their deaths at the hands of the IRA in 1920 were often repaid with arbitrary reprisals against the civilian population.

However, most Republicans did not make a distinction, and " Black and Tans " was often used as a catch-all term for all police and army groups.

Ground Cayenne & Fresh Black Pepper are used often.

The Black Eyed Peas often use freestyle lyrics, and Miami rapper Pitbull collaborated with Miami freestyle artist Stevie B to create an updated version of Stevie B's hit, " Spring Love.

In African and African diasporic religions, goddesses are often syncretized with Marian devotion, as in Ezili Dantor ( Black Madonna of Częstochowa ) and Erzulie Freda ( Mater Dolorosa ).

The brutality of the " Black and Tans " is now legendary, although the most excessive repression attributed to the Crown's forces was often that of the Auxiliary Division of the Constabulary.

These films were widely broadcast on North American television on weekend timeslots that were often colloquially known as Kung Fu Theater, Black Belt Theater, or variations thereof.

Similarly, folklorist Peter Rojcewicz noted that many Men in Black accounts parallel tales of people encountering the devil: Neither Men in Black nor the devil are quite human, and witnesses often discover this fact midway through an encounter.

In witchcraft trials " The Black Man " was often reported as meeting with the accused and having sexual intercourse with them.

Black cultured pearls from the black pearl oyster – Pinctada margaritifera – are not South Sea pearls, although they are often mistakenly described as black South Sea pearls.

In other words, samba-rap and the like often carried lyrics that encouraged Black pride, and spoke out against social injustice.

In the northernmost taiga the forest cover is not only more sparse, but often stunted in growth form ; moreover, ice pruned asymmetric Black Spruce ( in North America ) are often seen, with diminished foliage on the windward side.

** Black tie (" dinner jacket " in the UK ; often referred to as a " tuxedo " in the US ; traditionally appropriate only for use after 6: 00 p. m., but also seen in daytime, especially in the United States )

In the US, magazines and newspapers often do not use it, instead printing " family-friendly " censored versions, usually " n * gg * r ", " n ** ger ", " n ——", and " the N-word "; however, historians and social activists, such as Dick Gregory, criticize the euphemisms and their usage as intellectually dishonest, because using the euphemism " the N-word " instead of nigger robs younger generations of Americans of the full history of Black people in America.