Stating that the 1st wave was short-lived ignores the fact that, all through the eighties, and until 89/90, here and there, a few groups were popping up (already beyond the 1stWv initial phase with the Olde Quadrumvirat Venom/MFate/Bathory/Hellhammer), helping defining the future sound of the 2nd wave pupils, who, from around 85 to 1991, completed their ''BM graduation'' . To make it simple, Sarcófago, Vulcano, Tormentor, Blasphemy, Samael, and somehow Beherit, among others more obscure (Mortuary Drape, Mefisto, Treblinka, Root, Master's Hammer, etc.), due to the geographic distance, were not a ''scene'' but originated the different ingredients that NBM youths would use, fearing not the extremes of near caricature, but in a serious way, not deadpan.
The first wave is long and sparse, and above all, diverse, irregular and somehow uncharacteristic because of that.
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