A bunch of albums with a big circle on the cover

1.Karnivool - Sound Awake

2.Skyclad - The Silent Whales Of Lunar Sea

3.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

4.Pentagram - Pentagram

5.Russian Circles - Empros

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1.Enslaved - In Times

2.The Gentle Storm - The Diary

3.Moonspell - Extinct

4.Alkaloid - The Malkuth Grimoire

5.Damnation Angels - The Valiant Fire

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My favorite heavy metal albums of all time: The Top 10.

Authors note: I did not include Sabbath albums on this list, because then at least 6 of them would have been Sabbath albums.

1.Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith

2.Crimson Glory - Transcendence

3.Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King

4.Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance

5.Fates Warning - Awaken The Guardian

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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.Halestorm - Into The Wild Life

2.Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful

3.Symphony X - Underworld

4.Disturbed - Immortalized

5.Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls

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1.Ensiferum - One Man Army

2.Leah - Kings & Queens

3.Whyzdom - Symphony For A Hopeless God

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1-5: Amazing Albums
6-10: Good Albums
11-13: "Meh..."
14-16: Shit

1.Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon

2.Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

3.Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

4.Darkthrone - Panzerfaust

5.Darkthrone - The Underground Resistance

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This is a list that will gather my most recent discoveries in modern grind and affiliated sub-genres and variations (such as deathgrind, cybergrind, blackened grind etc...) that are worthy of a good number of listens. Keep in mind this isn't a "the absolute classics" kind of list. I'm both kinda ignorant and not that interested when it comes to powerviolence and early grind, but a few older releases and modern classics might find their way into this list because they're favourites of mine.

1.Unborn Generation - Dead Generation Of Men

2.Retox - Beneath California

3.Theories - Regression

4.The Kill - Kill Them... All

5.Graves - Fides Ad Nauseam

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1.Nightwish - Once

2.InnerWish - Silent Faces

3.Dream Evil - The Book Of Heavy Metal

4.Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night

5.Olympos Mons - Conquistador

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2015. Best to worst. Simple as that.

1.Chelsea Wolfe - Abyss

2.Sea Witch - The Blackened Sea

3.Echoes Of Yul - The Healing

4.Chrch - Unanswered Hymns

5.Zuriaake - 孤雁

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1.Nightwish - Century Child

2.Nightwish - Wishmaster

3.Nightwish - Angels Fall First

4.Nightwish - Once

5.Nightwish - Imaginaerum

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1.Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.

2.Arcturus - Arcturian

3.Symphony X - Underworld

4.Leprous - The Congregation

5.Soilwork - The Ride Majestic

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Cheers To This Artists To Create This Wonderful Masterpieces, This Is A Free Interpretation Of The Cinema, For Some Reasons They Aren't In:

Bergman, Bresson, Cameron, Capra, Coppola, Costner, Darabont, Dardenne Brothers, Eastwood, Eisenstein, Fellini, Godard, Hitchcock, Howard, Kalatozishvili, Kozintsev, Lang, Lawrence, Lean, Meirelles, Panahi, Parker, Pasolini, Ray, T. Scott, Sokurov, Sorrentino, Taghvai, Tarantino, Tarr, Tavernier, Truffaut, Van Sant, Visconti, Wise, Zemeckis, Zinnemann

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