What is Black Metal? Can we say that bands like Cradle Of Filth or Mayhem are references? This is commercial Black Metal. The true Black Metal is Burzum, Darkthrone, Vold. What, or who is Vold. Vold is a man from Oslo who stands for the true Black Metal, with a rotten but violent sound, Blasted and Patterned drum and Demoniac voice, who won't sell the Black Metal soul only to be knowed.