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~ My Favorite Black Metal Records ~
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…
A list of my personal favorites from the blackest metal of them all.
Ordered by personal preferences…
| 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 |
| + 125 more |
Favorite Metal Albums Of All Time
1 album per band per subgenre
work in progress, updating as I go through the song-by-song ratings on RateYourMusic.com
I will typically update my black metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6924
and…
work in progress, updating as I go through the song-by-song ratings on RateYourMusic.com
I will typically update my black metal faves - https://metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=6924
and…
| 1. | Queensrÿche - Operation: Mindcrime |
| 2. | King Diamond - Abigail |
| 3. | Voivod - Dimension Hatröss |
| 4. | Mastodon - Crack The Skye |
| 5. | Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris |
| + 115 more |
Halloween-in'
A collection of totally family-friendly jams fitting the spooky season. One song per band!
| 1. | Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath |
| 2. | Slayer - South Of Heaven |
| 3. | Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness |
| 4. | Metallica - Ride The Lightning |
| 5. | King Diamond - Abigail |
| + 80 more |
My Favorite 20 Albums Of 1996
| 1. | Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics |
| 2. | Prong - Rude Awakening |
| 3. | Spiritual Beggars - Another Way To Shine |
| 4. | Sacred Reich - Heal |
| 5. | Sacramentum - Far Away From The Sun |
| + 19 more |
Fave BM (and BM-adjacent) Albums
* 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.
>>…
* 1 album per band
* limiting this to actual black metal releases, as opposed to releases by bands that were, at one time, black metal.
>>…
| 1. | Weakling - Dead As Dreams |
| 2. | Deathspell Omega - Paracletus |
| 3. | Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle |
| 4. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 5. | Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury |
| + 40 more |
Systematic Desensitization: Black Metal Edition
For many, some of the more extreme types of metal can be challenging to penetrate. I'll admit that my first time listening to Burzum was nearly the equivalent of listening to a buzz-saw. But over…
| 1. | Dimmu Borgir - Death Cult Armageddon |
| 2. | Melechesh - Enki |
| 3. | Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini |
| 4. | Immortal - All Shall Fall |
| 5. | Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant |
| + 41 more |
Top 123 Albums of the 1990s
Here are the 90s albums that have stood out and made the largest impact on me. To be as transparent as possible, I've labelled albums as 'nostalgia bias' where my memories of the band give…
| 1. | Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral |
| 2. | Edge Of Sanity - Crimson |
| 3. | Opeth - Still Life |
| 4. | Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power |
| 5. | Metallica - Metallica |
| + 118 more |
Top 25 Albums Of 1996
Favorite releases from 1996
Updated 9/19/20
Updated 9/19/20
| 1. | Immolation - Here In After |
| 2. | Deeds Of Flesh - Trading Pieces |
| 3. | Cannibal Corpse - Vile |
| 4. | Cryptopsy - None So Vile |
| 5. | Adramelech - PsychoStasia |
| + 20 more |
My Favorite Albums
| 1. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 2. | Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain |
| 3. | Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes |
| 4. | Aquilus - Griseus |
| 5. | Archspire - Relentless Mutation |
| + 78 more |
A Little Further (Into The Progressive)
One album per artist in alphabetical order which happen to be my favorites. Feels like an addendum to the ?Beginner's Guide To Building A Prog Collection" (http://www.metalstorm.net/users/list.php?list_id=58)…
| 1. | 36 Crazyfists - A Snow Capped Romance |
| 2. | Agrypnie - 16[485] |
| 3. | Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea |
| 4. | Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone |
| 5. | Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy |
| + 101 more |
Black Metal Favorites
My favorite black metal albums, in no particular order.
| 1. | Dissection - The Somberlain |
| 2. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 3. | Immortal - Pure Holocaust |
| 4. | Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter |
| 5. | Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas |
| + 19 more |