History YMMV / TheBlackDahliaMurder

* GatewaySeries: As a whole, they are, along with Music/CannibalCorpse, Music/{{Death}}, Music/{{Behemoth}}, Music/MorbidAngel, Music/JobForACowboy, and Music/{{Carcass}}, one of the most common entry points to death metal. Within a specific point in time, if you were in your early to mid-teens in the late 2000s and were just starting to get into extreme music, odds are good that it was due to some combination of ''Nocturnal'', ''[[Music/JobForACowboy Genesis]]'', ''[[Music/SuicideSilence The Cleansing]]'', ''[[Music/{{Whitechapel}} This Is Exile]]'', ''[[Music/AllShallPerish The Price of Existence]]'', and ''[[Music/DespisedIcon The Ills of Modern Man]]''.

** Regarding the actual music, go ahead and listen to the main riff of "Into the Everblack" or/and of "Miasma" in a dark room. [[SchmuckBait Go ahead.]]

* FaceOfTheBand: Trevor Strnad

* NauseaFuel:
** See the entry for SesquipedalianLoquaciousness in the main page and try not to throw up.
** "Virally Yours" is a better example, which is fitting given that the protagonist actually seems to get off on this.

* NauseaFuel: See the entry for SesquipedalianLoquaciousness in the main page and try not to throw up.

* NightmareFuel: Quite a given, since they mostly talk about horror tales. Their unhinged sound really doesn't help matters, either.

* '''NightmareFuel''': Quite a given, since they mostly talk about horror tales. Their unhinged sound really doesn't help matters, either.

* Main/{{Tear Jerker}}: "That Which Erodes the Most Tender of Things" can certainly qualify for this in their discography considering that yes, stillbirths are a real thing.

* Main/{{TearJerker}}: "That Which Erodes the Most Tender of Things" can certainly qualify for this in their discography considering that yes, stillbirths are a real thing.

* Main/{{Tearjerker}}: "That Which Erodes the Most Tender of Things" can certainly qualify for this in their discography considering that yes, stillbirths are a real thing.

* HarsherInHindsight: In the wake of Trevor Strnad's suicide, the lyrics to "To a Breathless Oblivion", "Receipt", and "Asylum" look a lot more like expressions of suicidal ideation well before he actually took his life.

* VindicatedByHistory: At the time of its release, ''Deflorate'' was divisive and turned many fans off due to its more technical songwriting, and after its touring cycle had concluded, virtually nothing off the album save for "I Will Return" (which was the one song that the fanbase universally loved) ever saw the light of day again. As the 2010s went on, fan reception grew much kinder towards it, and many fans now at least consider it underrated, if not one of their better albums. Subverted with the band's own feelings towards it, as Trevor has cited it as one of his least favorite releases and criticized it for its lack of songwriting diversity and overabundance of extremely fast and technical songs with little breathing room, though he shares the fanbase's love for "I Will Return".

* SeasonalRot: ''Abysmal''. While it does have several fan-favorites (namely "Threat Level No. 3" and "Asylum"), general consensus is that it's a boring ''Miasma'' retread with a lot of songs that go nowhere. Subverted with ''Everblack''; yes, there are plenty of fans who would call it this, but it's such a polarizing album that it doesn't qualify. Trevor himself has said as much about ''Abysmal'', and the band has not played anything from it since 2017.

* VindicatedByHistory: At the time of its release, ''Deflorate'' was divisive and turned many fans off due to its more technical songwriting, and after its touring cycle had concluded, virtually nothing off the album save for "I Will Return" (which was the one song that the fanbase universally loved) ever saw the light of day again. As the 2010s went on, fan reception grew much kinder towards it, and many fans now at least consider it underrated, if not one of their better albums. Subverted with the band's own feelings towards it, as Trevor has cited it as one of his least favorite releases and criticized it for its lack of songwriting diversity and overabundance of extremely fast and technical songs with little breathing room.

* FandomRivalry: There is something of a friendly one between fans of Shannon Lucas and fans of Alan Cassidy; Shannon fans prefer him for his extremely hard-hitting and aggressive playing style and usually see Alan as a great drummer who plays it a little too safe and is often a bit too flashy for his own good, while Alan fans prefer him for his extremely fast and precise footwork, creative cymbal work, and snappy, taut feel, and see Shannon as a great drummer who was necessary for the band to get to the level they are at, but was a bit too predictable and formulaic.

* SeasonalRot: ''Abysmal''. While it does have several fan-favorites (namely "Threat Level No. 3" and "Asylum"), general consensus is that it's a boring ''Miasma'' retread with a lot of songs that go nowhere. Subverted with ''Everblack''; yes, there are plenty of fans who would call it this, but it's such a polarizing album that it doesn't qualify.

* BaseBreaker: Several.
** Ryan Knight. He either made the band grow tremendously and brought a whole new dimension to their sound with his far more developed and distinctive leadwork, or he was an annoying noodler who sounded like he was playing to a different song entirely half the time and brought absolutely nothing of value to the table from a songwriting standpoint.
** ''Everblack''. It was either a lesson in how to gracefully pull off a DarkerAndEdgier turn and was the biggest sign of growth since ''Nocturnal'', or it was a boring slog with two or three good songs and a bunch of filler that fundamentally missed the point of why people liked them.

* GatewaySeries: As a whole, they are, along with Music/CannibalCorpse, Music/{{Death}}, Music/{{Behemoth}}, Music/MorbidAngel, Music/JobForACowboy, and Music/{{Carcass}}, one of the most common entry points to death metal. Within a specific point in time, if you were in your early to mid-teens in the late 2000s and were just starting to get into extreme music, odds are good that it was due to some combination of ''Nocturnal'', ''[[Music/JobForACowboy Genesis]]'', ''[[Music/SuicideSilence The Cleansing]]'', ''[[Music/{{Whitechapel}} This Is Exile]]'', and ''[[Music/DespisedIcon The Ills of Modern Man]]''.

* GatewaySeries: As a whole, they are, along with Music/CannibalCorpse, Music/{{Death}}, Music/{{Behemoth}}, Music/MorbidAngel, and Music/{{Carcass}}, one of the most common entry points to death metal. Within a specific point in time, if you were in your early to mid-teens in the late 2000s and were just starting to get into extreme music, odds are good that it was due to some combination of ''Nocturnal'', ''[[Music/JobForACowboy Genesis]]'', ''[[Music/SuicideSilence The Cleansing]]'', ''[[Music/{{Whitechapel}} This Is Exile]]'', and ''[[Music/DespisedIcon The Ills of Modern Man]]''.

* WinBackTheCrowd: Everything since ''[[ToughActToFollow Nocturnal]]'' was at least somewhat divisive; ''Deflorate'' split the fanbase down the middle due to Ryan Knight's presence and their move towards a more technical sound (though it did spawn [[SignatureSong "I Will Return"]]), ''Ritual'' won back some of the fans that were turned off by ''Deflorate'' but was still inconsistently received, ''Everblack'' was straight-up LoveItOrHateIt and is either one of their best or their absolute worst depending on who you ask (thanks to its heavier and darker sound), and ''Abysmal'' tried to address the complaints from the fans who disliked ''Everblack'' and its DarkerAndEdgier turn, but instead went too far in the opposite direction and was generally viewed as a warmed-over, repetitive, and boring redux of ''Miasma''. ''Nightbringers'', on the other hand, has universally received rave reviews and is already being viewed as their best since ''Nocturnal'', if not their best album period.

* SurprisinglyImprovedSequel: ''Miasma'' is generally regarded as this from the fans, as it ditched most of the metalcore influences that ''Unhallowed'' had.