Black Emerald is a Reading-area band whose sound draws on hard rock, thrash metal, doom metal, southern metal and progressive metal. The group emerges from Reading’s underground scene and combines old-school metal influences with a heavier hard rock approach.

The band is identified with a style that brings together progressive, stoner and thrash elements, with an emphasis on crushing riffs and a revived old-school metal energy. It is associated with the UK metal scene.