This study is a text analysis of the Black Metal genre's texts and how they portray society, the world and death. The main purpose of the study has been to find out, among other things, from the theories of Anthony Gidden and Zygmunt Bauman how these descriptions could affect young people's creation of identity, life view and life interpretation. The questions from which the study was based are: What picture of the world, society and religion are depicted in the texts? How can the portrayals affect the creation of identity, view of life and life interpretation by young people and young adults? Which I have answered by examining texts from three different Black Metal bands. The study is religious science and is relevant for several reasons. Especially when mental illness among young people increases. Combined with the increasingly widespread secularization in society, this risks that young people tend to seek subcultural branches that risk affecting development both positively and negatively. By creating a greater understanding of what young people find attractive in the different subcultural genres, adults in the school can work preventively at an early stage by communicating at the young people's own level. The study contributes to an understanding of a genre, but there are more genres to eventually understand. Good communication between teachers and pupils leads to trusting relationships, which also means that students who for one reason or another feel poorly at best, ask for help instead of seeking out potentially destructive environments.