I got drunk and made a list of my favorite black metal albums. Give me suggestions or remind me what I left out. I'll add mini-reviews eventually because otherwise it's just a boring list of albums with no context.

1. Master's Hammer - Ritual

2. Dissection - The Somberlain

3. Bethlehem - Dark Metal

4. Dawn (SWE) - Nær Sólen Gar Niþer For Evogher

5. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

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1. Altar of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

2. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls with Sand

3. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

4. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

5. Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon

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1. Sylosis - Dormant Heart

2. Trials - This Ruined World

3. Baroness - Purple

4. Thy Catafalque - Sgùrr

5. Anopheli - The Ache Of Want

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This list contains most beautiful, majestic and soul-touching releases I've ever experienced.
My most favorite genres are Black Metal, Post Metal, Shoegaze, Doom Metal, Ambient and Neo-Classical in general .

Albums are ranked by the year,I think this way is more useful.

I will keep expanding my list as i can.

1. Anathema - The Silent Enigma

2. Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée

3. Deinonychus - The Silence Of December

4. Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I - Fathers Of The Icy Age

5. Burzum - Filosofem

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Exclusively stuff off Metalstorm, list would be way too big if not.

1. Woods of Ypres - Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light

2. Devin Townsend - Deconstruction

3. Death Grips - The Money Store

4. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

5. Swans - To Be Kind

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There are a lot of great albums out there, but that doesn't mean A) your wallet has to suffer or B) you need to resort to stealing. This list is here to both provide you with some excellent music for cheap and also help these bands make a few bucks in the process. If you are particularly into black (mostly of the atmospheric variety), sludge, and/or doom; you might be best suited just going through the collection related to my site, Metaltrenches.com, here or THIS GUY'S COLLECTION.

1. Torrential Downpour - Truth Knowledge Vision

2. The Sixth Of November - Ashes

3. Corpse Light - Without Form

4. Ketha - #!%16.7

5. Tyrant of Death - Ascendancy

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This is my personal favourite top 50 albums of all time, this list can change because i can enter new things and my tastes may differ over time.

1. Cult Of Luna - Somewhere Along The Highway

2. Ulver - Perdition City

3. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4. Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime

5. Bolt Thrower - Those Once Loyal

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1. In Solitude - Sister

2. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks

3. Queens Of The Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

4. Anciients - Heart Of Oak

5. Kataklysm - Waiting For The End To Come

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1. Defeated Sanity - Passages Into Deformity

2. Ulcerate - Vermis

3. Voices - From The Human Forest Create A Fugue Of Imaginary Rain

4. Nails - Abandon All Life

5. Altars - Paramnesia

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In alphabetical order by album title!

1. Gris - À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Äme Constellée...

2. Obsidian Tongue - A Nest Of Ravens In The Throat Of Time

3. Finnr's Cane - A Portrait Painted By The Sun

4. Sun Devoured Earth - A Static Life

5. Agrypnie - Aetas Cineris

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2013 has come and gone. I just wanted to share some of my favourite albums from the year, as there have been several strong albums that have creeped into my favourite albums. If you enjoyed my "Crushing…" list, you may also enjoy what is on here. The albums are in order and the descriptions are generally for fun. I've brought it down to a Top 25.

1. Ulcerate - Vermis

2. Station Dysthymia - Overhead, Without Any Fuss, The Stars Were Going Out

3. Woebegone Obscured - Marrow Of Dreams

4. Rivers of Nihil - The Conscious Seed Of Light

5. Castevet - Obsian

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Here are my top 20 metal albums of this year (without any order).

* The list's title in eng means: "decent year".
** To create the thumbnail I used Sky Ferreira's cover art for Night Time, My Time, shot by Gaspar Noé.

1. Gris - À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Äme Constellée...

2. Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother

3. Subrosa - More Constant Than The Gods

4. Tribulation - The Formulas Of Death

5. Funeralium - Deceived Idealism

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1. The Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us is the Killer

2. TesseracT - Altered State

3. Deafheaven - Sunbather

4. Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius

5. Steven Wilson - The Raven That Refused to Sing (And Other Stories)

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1. Amorphis - Circle

2. Orphaned Land - All is One

3. Persefone - Spiritual Migration

4. Gorguts - Colored Sands

5. Shade Empire - Omega Arcane

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My favs of the year. Ever changing, not complete until it is complete.

I'm fuckin edgy deal with it. This is pretty much just for me so I don't forget these releases. .

1. An Autumn For Crippled Children - Try Not To Destroy Everything You Love

2. Deafheaven - Sunbather

3. Protest the Hero - Volition

4. Airs - Adore

5. Perfect Pussy - I have lost All desire for feeling

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