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Top 50 Black Metal Albums

I've been listened to Black Metal since the late 2000s starting with Emperor and Dimmu Borgir. Since then, I've discover dozens of amazing bands thanks to MS and it has become one of my favourite genres, especially the more melodic/symphonic/epic bands.

So here are my favourites of the genre with my rating, its sub-genre and release year:

(Score is an average of each album's song ratings, full list located here)

If you discovered any new albums or like the same sort of black metal, be sure to give this list a thumbs-up and leave a comment so more people can find these amazing bands!

My other lists:
Top 500 Albums (ordered & rated)
Top 25 EPs (also ordered & rated)
Top 200 Overlooked Albums (with genres)
Top 200 Overrated Albums (trigger warning)
So I Heard You Like Wintersun... (Time II find new bands)

1.Agalloch - The Mantle
2.Caladan Brood - Echoes Of Battle
3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
4.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
5.Windir - 1184

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Created by nonZero on 19.02.2024



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The Top Albums Of Ch'ti

This is my top albums (only with those where I gave 8 or more). I will update the list now and then

1.Slipknot - Iowa
2.Megadeth - Rust In Peace
3.Opeth - Ghost Reveries
4.Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
5.Slipknot - Slipknot

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Created by Ch'ti on 06.02.2024



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Hidden Title Tracks – Album Titles That Come From A Song`s Lyrics

Almost all album titles fall in one of two categories: The album shares the title with one of its songs (the title track) or, alternatively, the album title is independent from the songs (no title track).

However, there are examples of songs that have a central link to the album title without sharing the same name. In these cases, certain lyrics from the song were chosen as the album title.

This (alphabetical) list shows the names of these “hidden title tracks” and the central lyrics that gave the name to the corresponding album.

Please feel free to suggest more of your favorite metal/hard rock examples of these “hidden title tracks”.



1.40 Watt Sun - Wider Than The Sky
2.A Forest Of Stars - A Shadowplay For Yesterdays
3.Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops
4.Agalloch - The Mantle
5.Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

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Created by Plattner on 06.07.2023



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Favorite Full Length Debuts

To add fuel to the fire of the "they'll never top their first album" rhetoric, here are all my favorite full length debuts in alphabetical order. Full lengths, not EPs.

1.Acid Witch - Witchtanic Hellucinations
2.Aeternus - Beyond The Wandering Moon
3.Agruss - Morok
4.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea
5.Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde

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Created by Ryanm123 on 18.06.2023



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Making My Way Through The MS Top 200

The MS top 200 is supposed to represent the absolute peak of metal music, the timeless classics. I have been listening to metal for about 6 years now and would consider myself fairly knowledgeable about the genre. Yet, I have barely heard half of what the top 200 has to offer. I am now on a quest to listen to it all and give an honest opinion on what I thought of it.
This list will show every album of the top 200 and if I've listened to it whether it's an all-time favourite of mine (+++), I really like it (++), I like it (+), it’s good (*), it’s not great (-), I really dislike it (--) or I hate it from the bottom of my heart (---). The same symbols will be used to characterize what I think my opinion of the albums I haven't heard yet will be, based on my knowledge of the bands and of the genre they play. (?) signifies that I have no idea of whether I'll enjoy it or not and (/) means that my opinion of the album is probably obsolete, and I need to listen to it again. A ★ means the album is in my own top 200.
Edit: The bottom of the top 200 has been changing a lot, with some stuff formerly in the list now closer to 240th, so this is now a top 250. I’m not sure I want to expand the list further down, but I’ll see whenever it’s completed if I feel like going for a top 300 or something like that.
Best discoveries so far: Wildhoney, Nightfall, Out Of Myself, Portal Of I, Autumn Aurora, Nemesis Divina, Abigail, V: Hävitetty, Sounds Of Pain.

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3.W.A.S.P. - The Crimson Idol
4.Saturnus - Veronika Decides To Die
5.Ensiferum - Ensiferum

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Created by Roman Doez on 13.04.2023



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My Favorite Album Covers

Mind map:

Blue = win
Undead = win
Hell = win
Blue = win
Nature ft. Water = win
Color eyegasm = win
Grim reaper = win
Boys being boys = win
Badly done CGI = win
Blue = win
Blue = win
Orthodox stuff = win
Black and white = win, sometimes

Last updated on 29 July 2023.

1.Emperor - Reverence
2.Wintersun - Wintersun
3.The Ruins Of Beverast - Rain Upon The Impure
4.Dissection - Live Legacy
5.Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman

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Created by Qualeen on 29.03.2023



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Best Debuts Of All Time

The best debut records of all time by year…

1.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
2.KISS - Kiss
3.Rush - Rush
4.AC/DC - High Voltage
5.Motörhead - Motörhead

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Created by Blackcrowe on 10.03.2023



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My Favorite Albums Of All Time.

Listen to metal for more than the half of my life, here is the list of my favorites albums of all time.

1.Alcest - Les Voyages De L'âme
2.Alcest - Kodama
3.Alcest - Spiritual Instinct
4.Alestorm - Sunset On The Golden Age
5.Alestorm - No Grave But The Sea

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Created by Charlotbk on 16.01.2023



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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

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Created by Qualeen on 31.10.2022



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Top Metal Albums Of All Time

I started listening to metal music when I was a teenager, somewhere around the end of the 90's. After all these years, I thought it was high time to compose my personal top list of metal albums. What you see here is the absolute best of the best ... according to my taste.

To compile this list I have put all albums that I have given a 10/10 here on MS. Then I have put all these albums in a Ranking Engine (https://www.pubmeeple.com/ranking-engine) where they were put head to head and I had to choose which I liked more. The list below is what came out of this exercise.

1.Opeth - Deliverance
2.Opeth - Blackwater Park
3.Edge Of Sanity - Crimson
4.Edge Of Sanity - Purgatory Afterglow
5.Cobalt - Eater Of Birds

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Created by Miohn on 18.09.2022



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Top Metal Albums Each Year I Have Been Alive, 1994

A little list series where I list my top 20 favorite metal albums every year starting from the year I was born in.

1994 was pretty great year for metal black metal was in full swing with all its drama, death metal still going strong and a really good year for doom metal.

My favorite non-metal albums from 94

1.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
2.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
3.Dream Theater - Awake
4.Running Wild - Black Hand Inn
5.Amorphis - Tales From The Thousand Lakes

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Created by Handala on 19.07.2022



Favourite Black Metal

1.Bathory - Blood Fire Death
2.Burzum - Filosofem
3.Burzum - Det Som Engang Var
4.Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
5.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

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Created by Zombie94 on 14.06.2022



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1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

Welcome to what I consider the "1001 Metal Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" or in other words, a list of records of various genres in the arrays of Metal and Hard Rock that I deem essential or at least very recommended to listeners of hard and heavy music. This may be a very overwhelming list but I essentially try to collect all albums in the History of Metal that strike me as worthwhile. May this be a guideline for people that seek for an entrance to a particular genre or certain bands. In no means I am saying, that this list is indisputable by any means. I consider these my personal picks for albums that should be listened to by die-hard metal fans at least once. Hopefully you can discover some new music or relate with my picks. If I missed something that you would include in such a list, please tell me in the form of a comment. Enjoy! \,,/

1.High Tide - Sea Shanties
2.Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
3.Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
4.Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come
5.Josefus - Dead Man

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Created by pandrstudios on 31.05.2022



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Winter/Christmas 2021 Playlist

I like to create playlists for fun when I'm not busy. Usually, though, I abandon them soon after. I want this playlist to be a bit different - perhaps not infinitely useful, but I associate all these songs with the season of winter and the winter holidays, and I'll be listening to all these a lot at least for a while. I thought I'd share the songs I included in my digital playlist, maybe you'll find something you like. Many of these are purposely blasphemous - I live surrounded by fundamentalist Christians and they're gonna spend the holidays singing about the birth of Christ - I need me some counterbalance.

1.Dream Theater - Awake
2.Immolation - Close To A World Below
3.Vader - Impressions In Blood
4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
5.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse

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Created by Qualeen on 14.12.2021



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Top 11 Favourite Metal Albums Of 1994

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

Honourable mentions:
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding (Death)
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone (Black)
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes (Groove)
Melvins - Stoner Witch (Alternative/Doom)
Soundgarden - Superunknown (Alternative)
Megadeth - Youthanasia (Heavy)

1.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
2.Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
3.Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
4.Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
5.Korn - Korn

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Created by blackwreath13 on 11.10.2021