Which is heavier, black metal or death metal?

Well when it comes to metal music and from what I can recall, the difference between black and death metal is that black metal relies more on shrieks and higher-pitches screams, while death metal uses more guttural and lower-pitched growls and screams. read more

I’d say Death Metal. Black Metal has excessive use of tremolo picking. Its a very fast genre. Probably the fastest metal genre. While death metal has fast riffs but not like black metal. The riffs are played with palm muting. Palm muting makes the sound deeper and heavier. Often use of tremolo picking with palm muting. Its the heaviest genre of metal. read more

black metal always sounded heavier because it was so poorly produced, and the vocalists shrieked so high it pierced the ear drums, but in reality black metal isn't much heavier than thrash, to me anyway, my favorite black metal album at the moment is "we own the mountains" by Elite. read more

Death Metal without any sort of growling emplyed at all, will not be called Death Metal. Black Metal can take liberties with the vocal techniques used. Drums - Both Death Metal and Black Metal employ blast beats, but Black Metal focuses more on the hats, Death Metal focuses more on the snare and bass. read more