The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Black metal style · 1982–

Blackgaze takes black metal’s tremolo stream, blast, and shriek and blends them with a shoegaze wall.

Influence
Shoegaze style · 1988–

Blackgaze takes shoegaze’s treated-guitar wall and blended vocal and locks it to black-metal blast and scream.

Influence

Blackgaze

style · 2007–

Also called blackgaze

2000s–10s named meeting of black-metal blast and scream with shoegaze guitar wash (Alcest, Deafheaven). Shoegaze supplies the treated-guitar wall; Black metal supplies the blast and scream. Post-metal leftover as a neighboring long-form, not a third parent. Post-black leftover as a press alias on the black-metal file. Empty Given after that check is historical.

Listen

  1. Souvenirs d'un autre monde Alcest (2007) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  2. Écailles de lune (Part I) Alcest (2010) YouTube
  3. Dream House Deafheaven (2013) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  4. Sunbather Deafheaven (2013) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  5. Ruines humaines Amesoeurs (2007) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Black metal → Blackgaze

timbre and productionmeter and grooveperformance practicestrength: highwell documented2007–2013recording

Mechanism

Blackgaze takes black metal’s tremolo stream, blast, and shriek and blends them with a shoegaze wall. Strength high. The pedal-wall hop is already on shoegaze blackgaze. Second-wave “necro” production is not required of this child.

Evidence

Alcest and Deafheaven against 1990s black-metal blast-and-shriek grammar (Grove).

Debate

Whether this is already black metal. The second-wave scene job is black metal’s; the named 2000s blend is blackgaze’s.

Mediators

artist: Alcest; artist: Deafheaven

Shoegaze → Blackgaze

timbre and productionperformance practicestrength: highwell documented2007–2013recording

Mechanism

Blackgaze takes shoegaze’s treated-guitar wall and blended vocal and locks it to black-metal blast and scream. Strength high. Black metal is the metal parent. Nu-gaze leftover as a 2000s indie revival on the shoegaze file.

Evidence

Alcest Souvenirs d'un autre monde and Deafheaven Sunbather against 1991 shoegaze wash (Grove).

Debate

Whether this is already metal. Blast/scream grammar is metal’s; the pedal-wall blend is shoegaze’s transfer.

Mediators

artist: Alcest; artist: Deafheaven