This list is meant to be an extensive, but by no means exhaustive, collection of the greatest (modern) metal albums and eps. Running the gamut from avant-garde to trve norweigan black metal. *As someone who is young in age, my tastes tend to revolve around the period of the 80s to the present.* Although certain metal albums from before will certainly be featured, the period of the 60s-70s will be under-represented. I refer you to this excellent list to gain a better appreciation for some of the best metal from that period: https://rateyourmusic.com/list/freis/martin_popoffs_the_top_500_heavy_metal_albums_of_all_time/

1.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)

2.T.R.A.M. - Lingua Franca

3.Taake - ...Doedskvad

4.Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster - Exegesis

5.Tad Morose - Modus Vivendi

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2019. Oh shit, time flies... yada yada. Here is my top list!

1.Elizabeth Colour Wheel - Nocebo

2.Nasheim - Jord Och Aska

3.Flesh Of The Stars - Mercy

4.Façade - The Eternal Dance

5.Esoteric - A Pyrrhic Existence

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Hooray! This is (yet another) 2017 list. Take a drink. Seeing as everyone else is doing one, might as well get off my lazy ass and vomit one out as well.

2017 was a weird and, at least February through July, an absolutely miserable year which has impacted my production and metal consumption. While I've digested a lot of metal, as you can see from my (almost non-existent) content output, not one that perhaps impacted me like prior years. Largely due to personal circumstance.

1.Emptiness - Not For Music

2.Funeralium - Of Throes And Blight

3.Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper

4.The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale Of Dark Legacy

5.Loss (USA) - Horizonless

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Still not full complete list. Some new ones will be added, and others changing spots. It's just there as of now to keep track.
Been many goodies this year at least for me and i might still be caught surprised.

1.Sunless - Urraca

2.Rebirth Of Nefast - Tabernaculum

3.Artificial Brain - Infrared Horizon

4.Tchornobog - Tchornobog

5.Dodecahedron - Kwintessens

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The best albums of 2017. Each section is almost in order now. I have tried to group the albums aesthetically, with the first group being the most diverse , focusing on the free-floating drone/ ambient, noise and psychedelic stuff that. The reason is that I get strong ASMR from those things. And yes, ASMR is real.

1.

2.10 000 Russos - Distress Distress

3.777Babalon - Eschatological Beast Of The Revelation

4.Ehnahre - The Marrow

5.Twinesuns - The Empire Never Ended

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The best album covers of 2017:

Bell Witch ‎- Mirror Reaper
~ Mariusz Lewandowski ~

Tchornobog - Tchornobog
~ Adam Burke ~

Amenra - Mass VI
~ Stephan Vanfleteren ~

Blut Aus Nord - Deus Salutis Meæ
~ Anna Levytska ~

Progenie Terrestre Pura - OltreLuna
~ Abalakin ~

1.Tchornobog - Tchornobog

2.Below The Sun - Alien World

3.Emptiness - Not For Music

4.Amenra - Mass VI

5.Process Of Guilt - Black Earth

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Top 50 albums/EPs/whatever roughly in order. Reviews on the way

1.Merkabah (POL) - Million Miles

2.Ashenspire - Speak Not Of The Laudanum Quandry

3.Almyrkvi - Umbra

4.White Ward - Futility Report

5.Netra - Ingrats

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Top list time! Here we go!

1.La Torture Des Ténèbres - IV - Memoirs Of A Machine Girl

2.Ragana - You Take Nothing

3.Lingua Ignota - All Bitches Die

4.Turia - Dede Kondre

5.Vintersorg - Till Fjälls Del II

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2017 was a weird year for me. While I did construct, update and maintain this list in 2017, I was very limited in what I was exploring and listening to. I have viewed 2017 as probably the weakest year of the 10s but I'm currently trekking back through the year's releases and finding some things I had overlooked. 2021 redux.

1.Pallbearer - Heartless

2.Almyrkvi - Umbra

3.Tyrannosorceress - Shattering Light's Creation

4.Dodecahedron - Kwintessens

5.Amenra - Mass VI

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Slow start to 2017. Keep an eye on this list you bargain-basement shoppers...

1.Au-Dessus - End Of Chapter

2.Viscera - 3/Release Yourself Through Desperate Rituals

3.Slowdive - Slowdive

4.Echoes(UK) - Cornerstone

5.Fen - Winter

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As is the case with my other lists, this is for my own organizational purposes and is designed purely to help me keep track of all the many black metal bands and albums that I enjoy, since I can't keep all of this information in my head. It has no other benefit whatsoever and will likely result in tantrums should anyone else see it. I'm aware that I haven't listened to every black metal album that I should have. I only went down to the 6s on this list, so it's possible that I have listened to your favorite black metal album that you desperately need to suggest and I thought it was terrible. There are a lot of heinously incompetent black metal bands out there.

On the off-chance that you've found this and actually care about what I think (you shouldn't), be advised that my favorites come first. Some are favorites in the general sense; some are favorites within black metal. The first few of those are in some order and not so much after that.

Because this is for my own purposes and not intended to be a definitive list of pure black metal, there are some black metal-adjacent bands, or albums by black metal bands that may not themselves be black metal. That's why you'll find so much Sigh clogging up the top of the list. I prefer to keep whole discographies together on one list. I used to include Primordial, Forefather, and other such bands, but a while back I created a list for folk and I decided that those artists would fit better there.

I update these lists very infrequently. This was last updated December 7, 2022.

1.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

2.Sigh - Graveward

3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

4.Sigh - Heir To Despair

5.The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew

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weeeee. all my past staff picks now compiled into one swell list.

1.High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine

2.Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough

3.Greymachine - Disconnected

4.Kylesa - Static Tensions

5.Profetus - Coronation Of The Black Sun

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