Yeah... a very conventional idea for a list, but i couldn't resist in the end finally making this one.
A list of my personal favorites from the blackest metal of them all.
Ordered by personal preferences and updated periodically with only one album/ep/demo per band.
Please enjoy, you might also find some of your likings in here. ^^
...and if not, it can't be helped.

1. Summoning - Stronghold

2. Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness

3. Midnight Odyssey - Firmament

4. Eismalsott - Best Before: Spring

5. Dornenreich - Bitter Ist's Dem Tod Zu Dienen

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This is a list comprised of my personal favorite albums. I tried to keep a limitation of two albums per band, but some musicians such will appear on the list at a higher frequency due to having multiple bands. Small reviews for each album will be added eventually. Please note that this list is still under heavy construction, and is no where near done. Many things are probably missing, and some albums may not remain for too long. My goal is to get 100 albums, but if that becomes too difficult I will chop the list down to 50 (or maybe 75). If you can think of any album you think I may be forgetting (read: an album you think I find to be one of my favorites, not your's), don't hesitate to remind me of it's existence.

1. Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock

4. Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

5. Ataraxie - Slow Transcending Agony

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My favorite (thus the best) album (NOT necessarily metal) of each year I've been alive. Any description I give is only my opinion (obviously).

1. Swans - Children of God

2. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

3. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

4. Bad Religion - Against The Grain

5. Slint - Spiderland

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1. Ancient Rites - The Diabolic Serenades

2. Ancient Rites - Dim Carcosa

3. Barathrum - Infernal

4. Bathory - Hammerheart

5. Beherit - Drawing Down The Moon

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Here is my provisional favorite-metal-albums-of-all-time-list! Enjoy!
The first 10 albums are in pretty accurate order. However, after that, it becomes harder and harder to separate the albums clearly. Thus, you can say that I enjoy album x on the list as much as the others in the interval of (x-5) to (x+5). For example album 37 would be as much enjoyed as 32, 33, 34, ..., 42, or something like that.

1. Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway

2. Disillusion - Back To Times Of Splendor

3. Grand Alchemist - Intervening Coma-Celebration

4. Opeth - Blackwater Park

5. Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

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In the years since I began listening to metal, black metal has become my go-to genre. The despair, anger, dissonance, experimentation, beauty, passion and hatred are second to none. These are the albums which sit at the forefront of my listening experience.

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Agrypnie - Exit

3. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

4. Blut Aus Nord - Odinist - The Destruction of Reason By Illumination

5. Burzum - Det Som Engang Var

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The title says it all. Of course it's highly subjective.

1. Isis - Panopticon

2. Year Of No Light - Ausserwelt

3. Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

4. Rosetta - Wake / Lift

5. Shape Of Despair - Illusion's Play

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This is the cream of the crop of what I've heard from the previous decade. Good times.

1. Isis - Oceanic

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora

4. Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice

5. Opeth - Blackwater Park

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This is a favorites list, not a guide or anything of that sort. It just highlights the albums that I've enjoyed listening to and spinned extensively since last November (When I got into this monolithic genre.) One entry for each band. The descriptions aren't necessarily descriptions of the music. I just wrote what came to my mind. I will update with new albums frequently.
EDIT: Got to 50 entries, so I guess I'll stop for now. I want more time to revisit these 50, get into the other albums of the bands listed below and delve into other genres of metal. I guess that taking a break from black metal (at least new stuff) will ensure that I won't get bored of it. It is likely that I'll continue this list by the half of July.

1. A Forest Of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves Of Spring

2. Addaura - Burning For The Ancient

3. Agalloch - Pale Folklore

4. Alcest - Écailles De Lune

5. Alda - : Tahoma :

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A-Z order. Contains:

Proto-Black Metal
Black Metal
Ambient/Atmospheric Black Metal
Depressive Black Metal

1. A Forest Of Stars - Opportunistic Thieves Of Spring

2. Anti - The Insignificance Of Life

3. Avsky - Scorn

4. Bal-Sagoth - Starfire Burning Upon The Ice-Veiled Throne Of Ultima Thule

5. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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It's nearly been a year since I've started listening to metal. I've listened to many albums since then, but it took me some time to get used to some genres, band ideologies and listening to full albums. This is a list of albums that had a big impact on the way I perceive metal. It is NOT a favorite album list as I don't still frequently listen to some of the listed albums anymore. Ordered by impact level.

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Suffocation - Pierced From Within

3. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

4. Agalloch - The Mantle

5. Edge Of Sanity - Crimson

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This list is half-assed. So half-assed that I do not care to update it.

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

3. Alchemist - Spiritech

4. Alcest - Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde

5. Alestorm - Black Sails At Midnight

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My favorite bands...

1. Void of Silence - Human Antithesis

2. Why Angels Fall - The Unveiling

3. Before the Rain - Frail

4. Ataraxie - Slow Transcending Agony

5. Virgin Black - Requiem - Mezzo Forte

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1. Moonsorrow - V: Hävitetty

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Gris - Il Était Une Forêt...

4. Darkspace - III

5. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

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I think the title is self explanitory. Not in order of preference as it would change daily and I can't be arsed changing it around all the time!:) it's a bit of a mixture of all the stuff I like so I'm reasonably sure alot of the picks won't be everyones cup of piss.

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Alcest - Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde

3. Arsis - A Celebration Of Guilt

4. Be'lakor - Stone's Reach

5. Between The Buried And Me - Colors

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