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That Cold Black Magic, By Glenn Killer And His Thorchestra 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.
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Created by ScreamingSteelUS
on 31.03.2015
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Best Albums To Fall Asleep To SPOILER ALERT: This is mostly just black metal.
****Alphabetical Order
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Created by me<3mertl
on 18.03.2015
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Bemused Dreamscapes And Ponderous Journeys - A List Of Albums For Adventure And Escapism The following is a list of favorites that will steal your mind from this mortal realm; albums that will take you on an indelible journey.
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Created by V01d
on 15.08.2014
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Neachy's Select: Black Metal
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Created by Neachy
on 03.06.2014
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My Favourite Black Metal Albums - My TOP 75 from 90s (and 80s), 00s and 10s.
- Each TOP 75 ordered from my most favourite down. - One album for every band in one TOP 75. - Only full-lengths or EPs/demos with more than half an hour. Description includes: Genre (traditional/true BM bands are labeled with their countries, e.g. Norwegian Black), year and my personal favourite song of the particular album with link. Hall of Fame (bands in each time period): Agalloch, Blut Aus Nord, Enslaved, Immortal, Nokturnal Mortum, Summoning
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Created by Alien1988
on 14.05.2014
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Dark, Harrowing, And Ravaging Albums To Ruin Your Day These obviously won't ruin your day. Chances are if you are into these styles you'll love this selection. No stylistic borders, but I'm limiting myself to one album per band. These aren't necessarily my favorite albums by these bands, but they are the one's I think fit the best.
10ish years later, I find a lot of my descriptions on these really mediocre. Don't judge my shitty writing.
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Created by Alex F
on 11.09.2013
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Awesome Space Atmospheres Music with a spacey touch...
Recommendations are welcome (only one album per band)
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Created by Curumir
on 01.08.2013
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Choice Albums Of Atmospheric Metal My choices of albums with strong forms of atmospheric sound in metal. Recommendations are welcome, though I won't add all as this will be towards personal taste.
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Created by CyberSymphony
on 15.07.2013
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My Top Black Metal Albums (Ordered by Years) Maximum three Albums per Year, starting in 1991
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Created by Sakuraba
on 02.03.2013
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The Best Of Unorthodox Black Metal Within the past decade, black metal has seen bands from all over the world incorporating new sounds to the genre and changing its delivery like never before. As great as the classic bands are, BM bands today seem to be branching out in every possible direction. From the beautiful chaos of the French bands, to the developing psychedelic black metal style, and even the Avantgarde craziness of the Meads or work from Mories... all the experimentation is helping to create a bold new identity for the genre's sound. Black metal today could very well be the one area of metal where we see the most experimentation taking place, and I hope the albums in this list will illustrate this growing trend.
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Created by Auntie Sahar
on 05.06.2012
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A PBR 12 Pack Of Popular Hipster Black Metal. Orthodoxy is for morons who cannot compose or create themselves and need to copy the blueprint of someone else. Daring to be different might make your music stand apart. Daring to be different and standing apart might draw more people to your music. Daring to be different might make you more popular - and thus more hipster. So grow some facial hair, put on an ironic shirt, grab a PBR, and listen up.
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Created by BitterCOld
on 21.02.2012
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2008: The Amphibian Halo (as In 'my Blurry View Of 2008') Updated version of the list previously published here. You'll notice that the comments are a bit different for sure, as is the order:
1 to 3: best of the year (in preference order) 4 to 25: other great stuff (alphabetical order) And then there were some average (sometimes bad, sometimes good) albums that didn't make it in this list, but they featured some of the most awesome songs of the year. Like Voices Of The Fallen by Battlelore, Dylath-Leen's Frozen Reflect On A Broken Mirror, and particularly Iced Earth's Come What May...
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Created by Darkside Momo
on 16.01.2012
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The Best Shit On MS My top 100 metal albums of all time (featured on MS).
- one album per band. - in alphabetical order.
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Created by Paz
on 21.12.2011
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Mikyz's Favorite Albums In 2008 Okay guys the countdown is really not a countdown, as in they aren't in any specific order.
PS: I'm sure I forgot some albums, so I might edit this list later on.
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Created by Mikyz
on 27.10.2010
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Worthwhile Albums Of 2008 This list, like the others, is only in alphabetical order. If I had to pick a favorite then it would be Darkspace's 'III' hands down.
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Created by DreadfulYgg
on 08.08.2010
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