[Evil Beauty of Melody] A roundup of recommended symphonic black metal bands

Among the subgenres of heavy metal, black metal is an underground style that tends to be for a select audience.

We’ll skip its origins and bloodstained history here, but in recent years many people may have learned about it through films like 2018’s Lords of Chaos.

Even within black metal there are further subgenres, and the style that incorporates orchestration and strings with a classical influence is called symphonic black metal.

In this article, we introduce symphonic black metal bands ranging from the well-known to the obscure.

If you’ve recently become interested in this genre, please take a look!