Re: Trivium or JFAC?
IMO, the "definition" of Black or Death comes from actually listening to it. I wouldn't be able to describe with words how one sounds compared to the other, but I could easily differentiate them by simply listening to them.
Black metal has a much darker sound, and is usually related to noise metal/electronica. The distortion is not only extreme, it's full of noise and drones. Death metal wil focus on rythmic riffs, including (but not limited to) tremolo picking (Dark Tranquillity), whilst Black metal (not always) uses dissonance and noise as a way to add drive. The drumming isn't very different from one genre to another, although some Black metal will use exclusively blast beats (Immortal) and other a lot less if not none at all (Burzum), and Death metal tends to use more double bass drums (Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity). The vocals are very similar, although some Black metal bands will add a track of noise and lower the volume of the growlings to create a darker sound (Summoning).
IMO, the "definition" of Black or Death comes from actually listening to it. I wouldn't be able to describe with words how one sounds compared to the other, but I could easily differentiate them by simply listening to them.
Black metal has a much darker sound, and is usually related to noise metal/electronica. The distortion is not only extreme, it's full of noise and drones. Death metal wil focus on rythmic riffs, including (but not limited to) tremolo picking (Dark Tranquillity), whilst Black metal (not always) uses dissonance and noise as a way to add drive. The drumming isn't very different from one genre to another, although some Black metal will use exclusively blast beats (Immortal) and other a lot less if not none at all (Burzum), and Death metal tends to use more double bass drums (Amon Amarth, Dark Tranquillity). The vocals are very similar, although some Black metal bands will add a track of noise and lower the volume of the growlings to create a darker sound (Summoning).
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