* Updating this as I get around to doing song-by-song on RYM.
* 1 album per band
* limiting this to actual black metal releases, as opposed to releases by bands that were, at one time, black metal.
>> Some bands really do incorporate a lot of both death metal or doom (or avant garde or folk, etc) and black metal in their albums, so I consider them to be 'black metal adjacent' even if it might not be 'purely black metal'

1.Weakling - Dead As Dreams

2.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle

3.Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum

4.Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi

5.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

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These are the albums that got me into metal when I was a teenager.

1.Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine

2.Sepultura - Against

3.Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar

4.Slipknot - Iowa

5.Korn - Issues

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1.Mgła - Darkside

2.Crypta - Luana Dameto

3.Gojira - Mario Duplantier

4.Toundra - Alex Pérez

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Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Anathema - The Silent Enigma (Doom/Death)
The Gathering - Mandylion (Gothic)
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side (Power)
Saint Vitus - Die Healing (Doom)
Darkthrone - Panzerfaust (Black)
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings (Power)

1.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

2.Immortal - Battles In The North

3.Moonspell - Wolfheart

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Paradise Lost - Draconian Times

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Very high ENERGY

1.Wilderun - Epigone

2.Toundra - Hex

3.Shadow Of Intent - Elegy

4.Lalu - Paint The Sky

5.Ashes Of Ares - Emperors And Fools

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When Metal Fusion with Avant-garde, Psychedelic , Prog, Pop, Jazz. Bands outside of regular metal rules. Bands that make something new and different.
An exploration of the metal limits🔥

1.Watchtower - Energetic Disassembly

2.Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle

3.Tool - Lateralus

4.Death - Symbolic

5.Dream Theater - Awake

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Here are some albums that used to be replayed in my MC-player hundreds of times when I was 16. Some of them keep listening till now, some I won't ever listen to again. Some good, some bad, some rather unexpected, but all of them pirated.

1.Aggressor - Of Long Duration Anguish

2.Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus

3.Amorphis - Elegy

4.Brutality - When The Sky Turns Black

5.Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

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Brutal shit from late 1990s to mid 2000s. Some gore, some grind, some slam, not many technical. WIP

1.Disgorge - Consume The Forsaken

2.Pyaemia - Cerebral Cereal

3.Severe Torture - Feasting On Blood

4.Devourment - Molesting The Decapitated

5.Brodequin - Instruments Of Torture

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Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Sarcófago - Rotting (Proto-Black/Thrash)
Candlemass - Tales Of Creation (Doom)
Terrorizer - World Downfall (Grindcore)
Annihilator - Alice In Hell (Thrash)
W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children (Heavy)

Non-Metal mentions:
Ice T - The Iceberg/Freedom of Speech... Just Watch What You Say! (Rap)

1.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

2.Obituary - Slowly We Rot

3.Black Sabbath - Headless Cross

4.Sepultura - Beneath The Remains

5.Sodom - Agent Orange

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First, we need to clarify what zeuhl is, at least for this list purpose:

Zeuhl originated with Christian Vander from Magma and his other thousand bands and projects. It's a subgenre of progressive rock, characterized by its agressive feel, marching themes, throbbing bass, and an additional main heavyness-inducing instrument like a piano or brass instruments. He described the genre pretty well himself: it's a genre that you feel in your chest.

1.Corima - Quetzalcoatl

2.Dai Kaht - Dai Kaht

3.Эпос - Рок-былина "Илья"

4.Eskaton - 4 Visions

5.Eskaton - Fiction

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A list of Bands and Albums to check in 2021 in chronological(release) order

1.Need - Norchestrion: A Song For The End

2.Emma Ruth Rundle - The Helm Of Sorrow [Collaboration]

3.Soen - Imperial

4.Tribulation - Where The Gloom Becomes Sound

5.Steven Wilson - The Future Bites

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Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin (Heavy)
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late (Doom)
King Diamond - Fatal Portrait (Heavy)
Exumer - Possessed By Fire (Thrash)
Mortal Sin - Mayhemic Destruction (Thrash)
Destruction - Eternal Devastation (Thrash)

1.Slayer - Reign In Blood

2.Kreator - Pleasure To Kill

3.Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

4.Metallica - Master Of Puppets

5.Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

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Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Honourable mentions:
Kreator - Endless Pain (Thrash)
Destruction - Infernal Overkill (Thrash)
Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good! (Thrash)

1.Pentagram - Pentagram

2.Slayer - Hell Awaits

3.Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion

4.Trouble - The Skull

5.Stormtroopers Of Death - Speak English Or Die

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What? It's really black bands that became actual pop.

I don't know what you were expecting...

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Plus my top three favourite tracks from each release. \m/

Non-Metal mentions:
Siouxsie And The Banshees - Hyæna (Goth)

1.Metallica - Ride The Lightning

2.Iron Maiden - Powerslave

3.Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith

4.Trouble - Psalm 9

5.Grim Reaper - See You In Hell

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