The Procession

It becomes easy as a fan of black metal to become surrounded by a sea of European dudes in corpse-paint and studded armbands. That is, after all, the way that the genre is typically represented and the image that birthed it. But no matter how seriously you take that sort of thing or the weight you put in the roots of black metal as a subgenre, I think that - as with anything - the evolution and growth of the whole cannot take place without diverse cultural/gender/ethnic inclusivity.

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