Black metal fashion refers to the style of dress preferred by listeners of
black metal music. Clothing is black accessorized with silver jewelry, including pentagrams, pentacles, Thor's hammers & inverted crosses. There tends to be also a focus on spikes on leather, often worn on the wrists, of around 12 inches. Males affect a rugged, long-haired look, while females attempt to look both attractive and dangerous. Black Metal Fashion is essentially
Gothic fashion with a more
Vampyric look. It is important to note that this does not mean that
Black metal is necessarily linked to the
Vampyre/
Vampire subculture, and that it is not, in any way, linked to the
Gothic rock movement.
See Gothic fashion, Vampyre Fashion.