Blackened death metal

The genre typically employs death growls, tremolo picking, blast beats, and Satanic lyrics and imagery.

[10] The year 1998 saw the release of Behemoth's album Pandemonic Incantations, striking a stylistic change in the sound of the band's output from a traditional black metal style with generally pagan lyrical themes into a more death metal influenced sound with lyrics about the occult and Satan.

[24][25] Similarly, New Jersey's Lorna Shore also began to tread into blackened death metal territory with their sophomore album "Flesh Coffin".

[10] Some bands who have played this style include Dissection,[10][27][28] Sacramentum,[10][27] Naglfar,[10] Dawn,[10] Unanimated,[10] Thulcandra,[27][10] Skeletonwitch,[29] and Cardinal Sin.

[10] Sacramentum's debut and second albums Far Away from the Sun and The Coming of Chaos would then continue Dissection's style of black metal-infused melodic death metal, based around middle of the neck guitar riffing and howling vocals, while Vinterland would lean even more upon their black metal predecessors like Norway's Emperor.

[35] Kansas City, Missouri band Order from Chaos and many of the acts on the record label Ross Bay Cult were also early proponents in the genre.

[36] Other notable acts in the genre include Revenge, Diocletian, Teitanblood, Black Witchery, Axis of Advance,[38] Impiety,[32] In Battle[39] and Zyklon-B.