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Originally Posted by The Batlord
If Sodom's first album is black metal then so is Morbid Visions. Back then distinguishing between thrash metal, black metal, and early death metal was kind of arbitrary. To me early black metal (i.e. not Norwegian black metal) is like thrash's ugly cousin. They were the bands that played uglier, noisier, and sloppier than Metallica and Anthrax and their ilk and had a clear link to Venom. Bathory, Hellhammer, NME, Sarcofago, and early Sepultura all fit that bill as far as I'm concerned.
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Distinguishing between almost all extreme metal subgenres, even now, is very arbitrary. You can find death metal that's just as poorly produced as black metal, you can find thrash with the technicality of tech death metal, you can find atmospheric, ambient, and symphonic elements in most of the subgenres, too.
I always thought early Slayer, like on
Hell Awaits even sounded like first generation black metal tbh. You're right though, black metal has always been noted for it's raw production style, and I would definitely say early Sepultura is closer to black metal than anything else.