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The terror-induced screams and growls, the fast drumming and guitar strumming can get people riled up with high energy and swinging their heads around the room. It can also simply scare people. And then there’s me sleeping to black metal.
It’s not that black metal is boring. I’ve been listening to black metal for so long that I’ve come to hear this genre as a secondary white noise. It’s relaxing. When the deep-voiced growls, the drumming, and the guitars mash together, it makes for perfect white noise.
What also makes black metal worthy of sleeping to is its low-quality sound that you hear in some of the bands. This is black metal. Don’t expect crisp mainstream music quality sound recording from every band. Some of these bands sound like they recorded their entire record in the drummer’s basement. The grainy lo-fi sound adds to the relaxing white noise.
Not every night, I sleep to black metal but when I do, I try to find the blackest most brutal metal I can find. I bookmarked a few online radio stations that play these types of music just for this. Black metal seems to sound better at night than in the daytime. At night, everything is dark and lonely outside so the brutal…
