Glorior Belli "They Call Me Black Devil"

Rock music came in full circle in this track. When blues and rock started, it came from the deep American South. They were the soundtrack to the hard life African-Americans were subjected to and renegading through rock was in their core. Their dark blues sounds then get adopted by British heavy metal bands, utilizing the heavy, hair standing devil's note, or tritone with the imagery of occult or horror movies. Heavy then evolved into it's darker forms, some add speed, some get influenced by punk. British Metalheads, Venom, released a heavy metal album that became the seeds for Black Metal, a genre named after their album. The name then became a phrase to describe bands that played heavy tremolo riffing and well known for it's "necro" production. However Black Metal didn't stop in those cold, grim Northern Scandinavian forest. In the 90s, it evolved and spread to various scenes, each putting their own flavor. Glorior Belli was one of them. While they started at the core roots of Black Metal that has detached itself from rock music's original roots, Glorior Belli relished the art form from the south. Starting from their album Meet Us At The Southern Cross, they employed blues and groove back into their brand of Black Metal. While American metal subgenres, like Groove Metal, Sludge Metal or the catch all term, Southern Metal employs this southern evil, it's rare to see  Black Metal band, so often associated with frostbitten terror to employ this sound. This is metal going back to it's roots. Primal, angry and crushing.