Blackgaze is a mixture of black metal aesthetics with more dreamy and mellow textures. One of the main characteristics of the genre are tremolo picking riffs creating an ethereal wall of sound, which is softer than usual black metal and resembling shoegaze (hence the name). Other common features are rapid blast beats and shrieking vocals, often interchanging with slower sections, clean singing and acoustic or post-rock-like instrumental breaks.
Blackgaze was pioneered by bands associated with a French musician Neige (most… read more
Top Artists
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Top Tracks
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| 1 | Play on youtube | Avril Lavigne — Hello Kitty |
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| 2 | Play on youtube | Deafheaven — Dream House |
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| 3 | Play on youtube | Deafheaven — Sunbather |
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| 4 | Play on youtube | Shyy — Her, Her Landscape |
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| 5 | Play on youtube | An Autumn for Crippled Children — To Set Sail to the Ends of the Earth |
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| 6 | An Autumn for Crippled Children — Never Shall Be Again |
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| 7 | Play on youtube | An Autumn for Crippled Children — We All Fall |
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| 8 | Play on youtube | Alcest — Oiseaux De Proie |
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| 9 | Play on youtube | Deafheaven — Vertigo |
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| 10 | Play on youtube | Deafheaven — The Pecan Tree |
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Top Albums
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Deafheaven 128,637 listeners
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An Autumn for Crippled Children 10,043 listeners
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Alcest 70,729 listeners
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Alcest 90,497 listeners
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Alcest 86,525 listeners
