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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1. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

2. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

3. Judas Priest - Stained Class

4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid

5. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

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25 best black metal albums to listen during the Winter season. In alphabetic order.

1. Abigail Williams - Becoming

2. Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia

3. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

4. Battle Dagorath - Ancient Wraith

5. Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée

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Alphabetical order.
Limited to 2 albums per band
Favorite tracks included.

Top 5 of non-metal:
Pink Floyd-The Wall
King Crimson-In The Court Of The Crimson King
Godspeed You! Black Emperor-Yanqui U.X.O
Comus-First Utterance
Explosions In The Sky-The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Agalloch - The Mantle

3. Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow

4. Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas

5. Bathory - Blood Fire Death

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1. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

2. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

3. Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark

4. Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

5. Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

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If you have any recommendations on similar albums I might like, you can suggest me.

1. Behemoth - Sventevith (Storming Near The Baltic)

2. Behemoth - Grom

3. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

4. Lutomysl - Catharsis

5. Furia (POL) - Martwa Polska Jesień

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Another one fro' Jir. This time it is 99!

1. Root - The Book

2. Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy

3. Chthonic - Where The Ancestors' Souls Gathered

4. Empyrium - Where At Night The Wood Grouse Plays

5. Dødheimsgard - 666 International

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1. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

2. Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

3. Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors

4. Asphyx - The Rack

5. Beherit - Drawing Down The Moon

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...in no particular order

1. Opeth - Ghost Reveries

2. Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone

3. Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

4. Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5. Amon Amarth - Versus The World

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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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1. Tristania - Beyond The Veil

2. Estatic Fear - A Sombre Dance

3. Anathema - Judgement

4. Lake Of Tears - Forever Autumn

5. Agalloch - Pale Folklore

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1. Behemoth - Thelema.6

2. Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

3. Haggard - Awaking The Centuries

4. Angel Dust - Enlighten the darkness

5. Suidakra - The Arcanum

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1. Death - Human

2. Opeth - Still Life

3. At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul

4. Dismember - Like An Ever Flowing Stream

5. Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

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Each album was listened to thoroughly enough to put it in its right place here. So, for now, hail Immortal, the mighty kings of northern darkness!!

1. Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter

2. Immortal - Battles In The North

3. Immortal - Sons Of Northern Darkness

4. Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism

5. Immortal - Pure Holocaust

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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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