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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.
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- 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.
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| 1. | Windir - Arntor |
| 2. | Paysage d'Hiver - Paysage D'Hiver |
| 3. | Blut Aus Nord - Ultima Thulée |
| 4. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 5. | Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter |
| + 223 more |
Neachy's Select: Black Metal
| 1. | Bathory - Under The Sign Of The Black Mark |
| 2. | Bathory - Blood Fire Death |
| 3. | Master's Hammer - Ritual |
| 4. | Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky |
| 5. | Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism |
| + 145 more |
One-album Metal Wonders
A list of bands who have released just one album. Feel free to recommend!
Edit: If the band released their debut album between 2014-present and they haven't split, they are not viable.
Edit: If the band released their debut album between 2014-present and they haven't split, they are not viable.
| 1. | ABACABB - Survivalist |
| 2. | Abstrakt Algebra - Abstrakt Algebra |
| 3. | Abydos - The Little Boy's Heavy Mental Shadow Opera About The Inhabitants Of His Diary |
| 4. | Abyssmal Sorrow - Lament |
| 5. | Age Of Silence - Acceleration |
| + 85 more |
90s: The Essentials
In no particular order. Will be expanding as I listen to more albums. Only one album per band, be sure to check the rest of the discography by yourself.
| 1. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 2. | System Of A Down - System Of A Down |
| 3. | Ulver - Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr I 5 Capitler |
| 4. | Anacrusis - Manic Impressions |
| 5. | Death - Symbolic |
| + 98 more |
Low Tones In Kvlt: The Best Of Bass Black Metal
Bassy black metal. Easy enough to understand: black metal with a distinctly pronounced role for the bass and in which the bass is noticeably audible.
Alphabetical order by band, one album per band.
Alphabetical order by band, one album per band.
| 1. | Abigor - Time Is The Sulphur In The Veins Of The Saint: An Excursion On Satan's Fragmenting Principle |
| 2. | Aeon Patronist - Mortal Prosternation |
| 3. | Aluk Todolo - Voix |
| 4. | Angst Skvadron - Sweet Poison |
| 5. | Annthennath - States Of Liberating Departure |
| + 25 more |
Most Overlooked Metal Albums
Albums I love that, at the moment, have at most 20 votes on this site. Ordered genre-wise, and not quality-wise.
| 1. | Legend - Fröm The Fjörds |
| 2. | Saracen - Heroes, Saints & Fools |
| 3. | Dark Quarterer - Dark Quarterer |
| 4. | Demon - Taking The World By Storm |
| 5. | Hellfueled - Born II Rock |
| + 77 more |
Top 250 Metal Releases Of All Time
Here’s my list of what I consider to be the best metal albums (+2 compilations and like 2 demo I think) of all time.
Enjoy!
Bands that appear the most in the list:
9 times: Sigh
5 times: Dream Theater,…
Enjoy!
Bands that appear the most in the list:
9 times: Sigh
5 times: Dream Theater,…
| 1. | Sigh - In Somniphobia |
| 2. | Windir - Arntor |
| 3. | Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane |
| 4. | Vektor - Terminal Redux |
| 5. | Dolorian - When All The Laughter Has Gone |
| + 245 more |
Ranking the One-Album Wonders in Metal
Some of the best metal albums ever released have been by bands that only had one full length release.
List is (and probably always will be) a constant work-in-progress.
If you know of a "one-and-done"…
List is (and probably always will be) a constant work-in-progress.
If you know of a "one-and-done"…
| 1. | Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris |
| 2. | Weakling - Dead As Dreams |
| 3. | Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle |
| 4. | Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography |
| 5. | Thorns - Thorns |
| + 170 more |
Black Metal: The Expansion Pack
My initial rendition was looking at the USBM scene. Next I opted to dive into where it arguably all began… Norway. My most recent exploration was into Switzerland’s scene. Rather than repeatedly coming…
| 1. | Elysian Blaze - Blood Geometry |
| 2. | Funeral Mourning - Drown In Solitude |
| 3. | Ill Omen - Æ.Thy.Rift |
| 4. | Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason |
| 5. | Woods Of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason |
| + 151 more |
My Top 60 Favourite Black Metal Albums
If you have any recommendations on similar albums I might like, you can suggest me.
| 1. | Behemoth - Sventevith (Storming Near The Baltic) |
| 2. | Behemoth - Grom |
| 3. | Lutomysl - Catharsis |
| 4. | Furia (POL) - Martwa Polska Jesień |
| 5. | Behemoth - Pandemonic Incantations |
| + 55 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 |
The Best Metal Albums* From A To # (J-K)
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…
| 1. | Jacobs Dream - Jacobs Dream |
| 2. | Jambinai - Onda |
| 3. | James LaBrie - Static Impulse |
| 4. | Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn |
| 5. | Jassa - Lights in the Howling Wilderness |
| + 133 more |
Top 100 Albums Of All Time
Current Top 100 as of September 2019. Having listened to metal for 45 years or so - here are my favourites (favourite track). One album limit per band. Enjoy!
| 1. | Absu - Absu |
| 2. | AC/DC - If You Want Blood You've Got It |
| 3. | Agalloch - The Mantle |
| 4. | Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken, Deeds That Go Undone |
| 5. | Alcest - Écailles De Lune |
| + 95 more |
Currently Listening... (February 2024 Edition)
These are albums that I'm currently enjoying. They may be classics that I'm revisiting or new gems I've recently discovered. (Ordered alphabetically)
- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery…
- A star (⭐️) denotes a new discovery…
| 1. | Ὁπλίτης - Παραμαινομένη |
| 2. | Albino Slug - Barabbas |
| 3. | Arkheth - 12 Winter Moons Comes The Witches Brew |
| 4. | Autopsy - Mental Funeral |
| 5. | Dipygus - Dipygus |
| + 7 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 |
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