10 essential black metal albums

[The Maelstrom Mephisto]

I'm not gonna post cos it's too hard to decide.

Also, i hate black metal "purists" that think that if an album doesn't sound like it was recorded through an answering machine then it's not "real" black metal!

 

[*Niko*]

Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Ancient - Mad Grandiose Bloodfiends
Enthroned - Towards the Skullthrone of Satan
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Enochian Crescent - Omega Telocvovim
Marduk - Heaven Shall Burn
Shining - Within Deep Dark Chambers
Gehenna - Seen through the veils of Darkness

 

[Necro Joe]

I'm not gonna post cos it's too hard to decide.

Also, i hate black metal "purists" that think that if an album doesn't sound like it was recorded through an answering machine then it's not "real" black metal!

Judging by your name the "purists" are just people who know that shit like Dimmu Borgir isn't black metal.

 

[svenske kocken]

Darkthrone - Under A Funeral Moon
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Bathory - The Return
Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
1349 - Liberation
Samael - Ceremony Of Opposites

 

[The Maelstrom Mephisto]

Judging by your name the "purists" are just people who know that shit like Dimmu Borgir isn't black metal.

why is everyone so down on Dimmu Borgir, what exactly is so bad about them?

 

[skeptik]

Because they don't actually play Black Metal.

 

[Life Sucks]

I don't really know all that much about black metal, but:

Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Immortal - Battles In The North
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Burzum - Aske
Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Bathory - Hammerheart
Absu - Tara
Graveland - Celtic Winter
Enslaved - Frost

 

[Demiurge]

I'm inclined to nominate this topic as the most trite of the month, but its competition is just so damned stiff.

I'd best have at it anyway, lest the perspective of the connoisseur be obscured by those of the dregs.

In no order:

Burzum- Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Moonblood- Blut und Krieg
Graveland- Thousand Swords
Countess- Return of the Horned One
Necromantia- Scarlet Evil Witching Black
Bathory- Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Fullmoon- United Aryan Evil
Darkthrone- Transilvanian Hunger
Belketre- Ambre Zuetki Vuodrevartre
Bherit- Drawing Down the Moon

 

[Necro Joe]

Good list, could you describe what Belketre sound like.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Good list, could you describe what Belketre sound like.

Extremely raw and abrasive, to the point where ones ears are almost bleeding. Excellent stuff, though.

 

[The Maelstrom Mephisto]

Because they don't actually play Black Metal.

soooo, what exactly do they play?

 

[Necro Joe]

Gimmicky melodic death/speed metal with cheesy gothic synths.

 

[no country for old wainds]

old Dimmu was blacker, and not overly horrible.

 

[Necro Joe]

Indeed, but what they play today can kill a tr00 black metal fan at fifty paces.

 

[hibernal_dream]

I dunno, Stormblast was pretty warm and cuddly