lordblytzkrieg posted:

The thing I don't think you're understanding is that image is a part of black metal. It's quite possibly the most important part of the genre. They put on corpse paint for a reason. Their artwork is black with very little flourish for a reason. The music is lo-fi, dissonant, and simple for a reason.

In your example the group you describe absolutely is NOT black metal. In the purest form they are not and they never can be. They don't have all the pieces to be that genre, but even still labeling music is really lame and only should be used in the most generic of ways.