As is the case with my other lists, this is for my own organizational purposes and is designed purely to help me keep track of all the many black metal bands and albums that I enjoy, since I can't keep all of this information in my head. It has no other benefit whatsoever and will likely result in tantrums should anyone else see it. I'm aware that I haven't listened to every black metal album that I should have. I only went down to the 6s on this list, so it's possible that I have listened to your favorite black metal album that you desperately need to suggest and I thought it was terrible. There are a lot of heinously incompetent black metal bands out there.

On the off-chance that you've found this and actually care about what I think (you shouldn't), be advised that my favorites come first. Some are favorites in the general sense; some are favorites within black metal. The first few of those are in some order and not so much after that.

Because this is for my own purposes and not intended to be a definitive list of pure black metal, there are some black metal-adjacent bands, or albums by black metal bands that may not themselves be black metal. That's why you'll find so much Sigh clogging up the top of the list. I prefer to keep whole discographies together on one list. I used to include Primordial, Forefather, and other such bands, but a while back I created a list for folk and I decided that those artists would fit better there.

I update these lists very infrequently. This was last updated December 7, 2022.

1.Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape

2.Sigh - Graveward

3.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

4.Sigh - Heir To Despair

5.The Meads Of Asphodel - The Murder Of Jesus The Jew

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1.Way To End - Various Shades Of Black

2.Glorior Belli - Gators Rumble, Chaos Unfurls

3.Portal - Vexavoid

4.Procession - To Reap Heavens Apart

5.Station Dysthymia - Overhead, Without Any Fuss, The Stars Were Going Out

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In alphabetical order by album title!

1.Gris - À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Äme Constellée...

2.Obsidian Tongue - A Nest Of Ravens In The Throat Of Time

3.Finnr's Cane - A Portrait Painted By The Sun

4.Sun Devoured Earth - A Static Life

5.Agrypnie - Aetas Cineris

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Because I can't stop listening to music, but neither can I sacrifice my lovely descriptions, so same fare as before, but deleted descriptions for those covered in the first list.

1.Protest The Hero - Volition

2.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

3.Amorphis - Circle

4.Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte

5.Monolithe - Monolithe IV

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Albums from 2013 worth being considered for a replay, I'm already having trouble remembering some of them. I'll TRY to order them from the one I liked most to the least.
I'm taking a passive stand to this year's music since I'm dedicating myself to old records currently, so probably 3/4 of the stuff I checked out came to me from this site one way or another

1.Cult Of Luna - Vertikal

2.Corrections House - Last City Zero

3.Dreadnought - Lifewoven

4.Ayreon - The Theory Of Everything

5.Obscure Sphinx - Void Mother

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Compiled for personal recollection as much as it is for public scrutiny, I hope this list leads you somewhere you want to go. No Order whatsoever. I'm using ♦ to rate the albums, there's really no scale, the more ♦ there is, the better I like the album.

1.The Ruins Of Beverast - Blood Vaults (The Blazing Gospel Of Heinrich Kramer)

2.Gris - À L'Âme Enflammée, L'Äme Constellée...

3.Witherscape - The Inheritance

4.Wormlust - The Feral Wisdom

5.Ulcerate - Vermis

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Pretty self explanatory. Although I usually forget to keep these kinds of lists up all year so we'll see if I keep this one up all year or forget about this one too after a couple months...

*This list is not in order of preference, just the order in which I add the albums so as to make it easy to identify the most recently added albums.

1.Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius

2.Amiensus - Restoration

3.Lascaille's Shroud - Interval 01: Parallel Infinities - The Inner Universe

4.Katalepsy - Autopsychosis

5.Octopus - Into The Void Of Fear

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My top 50 from 2013. Definitely a triumphant year for death metal. Enjoy, my heathens.

1.Grave Miasma - Odori Sepulcrorum

2.Wormlust - The Feral Wisdom

3.Station Dysthymia - Overhead, Without Any Fuss, The Stars Were Going Out

4.Gorguts - Colored Sands

5.Altar Of Plagues - Teethed Glory & Injury

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Last Update 20-6-2014

1.Progenie Terrestre Pura - U . M . A.

2.Battle Dagorath - Cursed Storm Of Ages

3.Abyssal - Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius

4.Lychgate - Lychgate

5.Deafheaven - Sunbather

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1.Persefone - Spiritual Migration

2.Amorphis - Circle

3.Nero Di Marte - Nero Di Marte

4.Riverside - Shrine Of New Generation Slaves

5.The Ocean - Pelagial

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