A Top 100 Black Metal Albums List by Rexorcist
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Genre: Black Metal
This list is based on my personal genre tree
* Black Metal
** Atmo-Black Metal
*** Blackgaze
** Bestial Black Metal
** Black 'N' Roll
** Black Death Metal
** Black Thrash Metal
** Depressive Black Metal
** Melodic Black Metal
** Pagan Black Metal
** Prog Black Metal
** Symphonic Black Metal
** Traditional Black Metal
NOT COUNTED BUT POSSIBLY FEATURED: Blackened Crust, Black Noise
100 / Norway
Symphonic BM, Traditional BM
Prometheus is the final stage in Emperor's passionate evolution. Their strongest sense of epica, best production and most apparent diversity are featured here.
100 / France
Atmo BM, BM
Blut Aus Nord are at their best when they're weird, and boy is this distubing and atmospheric mixed bag of mutliple consistent gemres weird.
100 / Norway (Live)
Symphonic BM, Traditional BM
This is the only live Emperor album where each song feels like it's taken directly from is own album, which means the variety of the classic band is respected.
100 / Norway
Prog BM
This is a perfect blend of Enslaved's three sides: prog, viking and black.
100 / Finland
Folk Metal, Pagan BM
Verisakeet is a long but beautifully melodic journey into mythical worlds and legends. It's one of those black metal bands that stands out with both tropes and inventiveness.
100 / Norway
Melodic BM
Arntor recreates the lands of old effortlessly and with many of the band's best melodies and riffs.
100 / Canada
Depressive BM, Atmo BM
It's hard to find an album more heartbreaking than this. This is a rare album that knows how to utilize length.
100 / USA
Bestial BM, Black Death Metal
This is bestial black metal at its most purified. Combining the short length of the album with monotone sludge riffage creates moments of utter hypnotism, amplified by excellent production and elements of dark ambient and noise.
99 / France
BM, Black Death Metal
Eternity of Shaog handles a wide array of metal genres with almost flawless flow.
98 / Finland
BM, Psych Metal, Avant-Garde Metal
The black metal counterpart to death metal's Obscura, this is a weird and psychedelic album that effortlessly draws you into space.
100 / Norway
Symphonic BM, Treaditional BM
Anthems represents Emperor further purifying all of the elements of In the Nightsdie Eclipse, giving it a truly gothic touch.
98 / USA
Blackgaze, Atmo BM, Post-Metal
This is the most diversified atmo-black metal album I've ever heard. Even though it's doesn't quite reach the level of beauty of other blackgaze albums I can name, it never runs out of new tricks and the ambiance always has something new to add, say or express. It doesn't drown itself in heaviness like most blackgaze albums, even though a couple parts COULD be slightly heavier.
98 / Sweden
Melodic BM
This early work in the genre is all about creating various atmospheres through riffage, be it the medieval type or the winter type.
97 / France
Atmo-BM
Easily the scariest album I've ever heard thanks to a wide range of vocal techniques and the greatest production black metal has to offer.
97 / Ireland
Atmo BM, Post-Metal
This is a crazy inventive album that showed a major creative spark for the band right before they broke up.
100 / Norway
Traditional BM
This is one of the traditional black world's finest examples of raw riffage and the essence of barbarian battles in snowy lands.
97 / Romania
Atmo BM, Prog BM, Prog Metal
This album has a very tribal weirdness about it, perfecting many of the aspects of past experimental works by the band for something with a much better flow.
97 / Belgium
Melodic BM, Atmo BM
97 / USA
Atmo BM, BM
96 / France
Atmo BM, Post-Metal, Avant-Garde Metal
96 / Norway
Atmo BM, Pagan BM
96 / France
Blackgaze, Post-Metal, Shoegaze
98 / Austria
Atmo BM, Symphonic BM
Stronghold uses lengthy ambiance and dungeon synth backgrounds to bring the listener directly into the world of Middle=-Earth, but in space-like ways no one ever imagined.
96 / Norway
Symphonic BM, Traditional BM
96 / Finland
Dungeon Synth, Atmo BM
96 / Norway
BM, Viking Metal
96 / Norway
Symphonic BM
96 / USA
Bestial BM, Death Metal, Black Noise
96 / France
Atmo-BM, Ambient
96 / Sweden
BM, Thrash Metal
96 / France
Atmo-BM, Psych Metal
96 / Norway
Traditional BM
96 / USA
Blackgaze, Post-Metal
96 / Sweden
Melodic BM, Traditional BM
96 / France
BM
96 / Norway
Unblack Metal, Symphonic BM
96 / ENG
Symphonic BM
95 / Norway
Symphonic BM
95
Psych Metal, BM
95
Traditional BM
95 / Ukraine
Atmo-BM
95 / USA
Symphonic BM
95 / Norway
Prog BM
95 / Taiwan
Symphonic BM, Melodic BM
95 / France
BM
95 / Sweden
Melodic BM
95 / Austria
Atmo-BM, Symphonic BM
95 / USA
Bestial BM, Black Death Metal
95 / ENG
BM, Grindcore
95 / ENG
Goth Metal, Symphonic BM
95 / Brazil
Bestial BM, BM
94 / Romania
Pagan BM, Atmo-BM, Prog BM
97 / Austria
Atmo BM, Symphonic BM
A good sequel to Summoning that almost matches it, carrying over the same vibes with a slight emphasis on symphony and a little less heaviness.
93.5 / USA
Atmo-BM
93.5 / USA
Atmo-BM, Post-Metal, Folk Metal
93.5 / Norway (Live)
Symphonic BM, Traditional BM
93 / Sweden
Depressive BM
93 / China
Prog BM, Avant-Garde M
93 / Finland
Folk Metal, BM
93 / Norway (Live)
Traditional BM
93 / Ukraine
Blackgaze
93 / USA
Blackgaze, Post-Metal
93 / Ukraine
Atmo-BM, Pagan BM
92.5 / France
BM
92.5 / Norway (Live)
Symphonic BM, Traditional BM
92.5 / Belgium
Atmo-BM, Post-Metal
92.5 / Sweden
Depressive BM
92.5 / France
BM
92.5 / Italy
Symphonic BM, Melodic BM
92 / Norway
Traditional BM
92 / USA
Blackgaze, Screamo
92 / Poland
BM
92 / France
Blackgaze
92 / Norway
Traditional BM
92 / Belgium
Blackgaze, Post-Metal
92 / Norway
BM, Avant-Garde Metal
92 / Finland
Psych Metal, BM
92 / France
BM
92 / France
BM, Atmo-BM
92 / Austria
Atmo-BM
92 / USA
Black Death Metal
92 / Norway
BM, Viking Metal
92 / ENG
BM
91.5 / Norway
Symphonic BM
91 / Switzerland
Atmo-BM
91.5 / China
Black Thrash Metal, Tech Thrash Metal