hmm... "Pure" death and black are both boring and "dead" genres. People do that stuff too much by the book, and it doesnt evolve or change because of that. But their subgenres, well thats a different story. Where death metal focuses on the complex and technical side of metal, black metal goes all out for the atmosphere. And thats what floats my boat. Atmosphere. I listen to some death metal bands because i like their sound (Demilich, Sotajumala and Vader), but i live for bands that have roots deep in black metal (Summoning, Moonsorrow and Agalloch). Okay, those are pretty far from church burning christ raping norhern black freezing metal, but more black than death.