1. Top three Black Metal bands

Immortal,Dark Funeral and Gorgoroth

2. Top three Black Metal albums

Immortal - Battles in The North
Dark Funeral - Secret of the Black Arts
Gorgoroth - Under the Sing of Hell

3. Top three Black Metal songs

Immortal - Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)
Dark Funeral - Arrival of Satan's Empire
Gorgoroth - Revelation of Doom

4. Top three Black Metal vocalists

Abbath,Magnus Caligula and Gaahl

5. Top three Black Metal guitarists

Infernus,Euronymous and Lord Ahriman

6. Top three Black Metal bands in terms of lyrics

Satanism,Evil and Anti Religion

7. Top three Black Metal drummers

Hellhammer,Horgh,Dominator

Don't pay attention too much to musicians, so I'll focus on bands/albums. Listen to me try to pick out which ones I wanna add when a year or more ago I despised this genre.

1. Top three Black Metal bands
Deathspell Omega = Love at least 75% of their discog.

Watain = Even if the last one wasn't particularly impressive, they have a real good catalog of high quality generic black metal.

Cobalt = Two really fantastic works of black metal.

2. Top three Black Metal albums
Immortal - "At The Heart Of Winter"
My favorite black metal album, without doubt. Riffs, galore!

Lurker Of Chalice - "Lurker Of Chalice"
An absolutely stunning ambient black metal album. I love the feeling to total emptiness it leaves you after you finish listening to it. Love it enough to shell out $40 for the reissue.

Oranssi Pazuzu - "Muukalainen Puhuu"
I love the spaced-out atmosphere of this album, and the cover art as well.

(Honorable mentions: Weakling "Dead As Dreams", Satyricon "Nemesis Divina", The Eye "Supremacy", 1349 "Hellfire", Bathory "Blood Fire Death", Darkspace "III", Blut Aus Nord "The Work Which Transforms God", Glorior Belli "The Great Southern Darkness", Enslaved "Axioma Ethica Odini" and Hail Spirit Noir "Pnuema")

3. Top three Black Metal songs
Satyricon - "Nemesis Divina"
The title track of the just as great album. Holy crap, that twin guitar ending is amazing. After a blistering black metal song that fades to darkness, the ending riff starts and I imagine the sun rising from over a foggy green hill, bringing light after having spent a whole album in a moonlit darkness.

Lurker Of Chalice - "Spectre As Valkyrie Is"
Everything about that song just flows beautifully. It's the example I would use to find beauty in odd music. I also love it when the droning riff kicks in... and the samples.

Darkthrone - "Transylvanian Hunger"
I really love Zephyrous' guitar line. It's so sorrowful and is completely hummable. Good song which that riff catapults into "pantheon of all time favorites" status.

1. Top three Black Metal bands
Darkthrone
Immortal
Rotting Christ

2. Top three Black Metal albums
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Rotting Christ - Theogonia

3. Top three Black Metal songs
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Mayhem - Life Eternal
Satyricon - Mother North

4. Top three Black Metal vocalists
Attila
Abbath
Mark Of The Devil (Cultes Des Ghoules)

5. Top three Black Metal guitarists
Quorthon
Ihsahn
Abbath

6. Top three Black Metal bands in terms of lyrics
Immortal
Mayhem
Rotting Christ

7. Top three Black Metal drummers
Hellhammer
Frost
Horgh

1: Emperor, A Forest Of Stars, Sigh/Summoning (can't decide which).
2: Ill Innocence, Grand Declaration Of War, Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk.
3: With Strength I Burn, A Distant Flame Before The Sun, Blashyrkh.
4: Ihsahn, Maniac, Onielar.
5: Jacob Buczarski, ?, ? (if we're counting Agalloch as black, whichever one does the leads there).
6: Darkestrah, Midnight Odyssey, Immortal
7: Hellhammer, Trym Torsten, Nick Barker.

1. Top three Black Metal bands

1) Blut Aus Nord
2) Deathspell Omega
3) Dragged Into Sunlight

2. Top three Black Metal albums

1) Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
2) Lurker Of Chalice - Lurker Of Chalice
3) Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred For Mankind

3. Top three Black Metal songs

1) Blut Aus Nord - Procession Of The Dead Clowns
2) Lurker Of Chalice - Fastened To The Five Points
3) Deathspell Omega - Kénôse

4. Top three Black Metal vocalists

1) Anaal Nathrakh - Dave Hunt
2) Bethlehem - Rainer Landfermann
3) Dragged Into Sunlight - T

5. Top three Black Metal guitarists

1) Arizmenda - Murdunbad
2) Deathspell Omega - Christian Bouche
3) Sigh - Mirai Kawashima (one of my favorite musicians in general)

I also really like D.G.'s style of just really weird and fast guitar

6. Top three Black Metal bands in terms of lyrics

I can't say, But not DsO

7. Top three Black Metal drummers

I don't know, it's hard to think about.

Written by [user id=159927] on 18.02.2017 at 15:58

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3) Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
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You mean "I" in Kénôse, I suppose

Written by solar on 22.07.2017 at 19:22

Written by [user id=159927] on 18.02.2017 at 15:58

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3) Deathspell Omega - Kénôse
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You mean "I" in Kénôse, I suppose

Well, yes, I did. It's their best song

Nope. "Carnal Malefactor" is their best track

Written by Paz on 23.07.2017 at 13:34

Nope. "Carnal Malefactor" is their best track

I was going to mention that as their second best, for sure, but I prefer I