Top 10 Black Metal ALBUMS

[Nico]

I gave this album a few spins over the summer, and while it had me excited at the time and held my interest for a while, it simply doesn't stand on its own merits, instead it tries WAY too hard to be experimental and discordant. Granted, the atmosphere on the album is very disturbing and I love the analog-delay-echo-effect on the guitar, but I have to admit that if it were released by any other band I don't think I would have given it even the amount of listens that it got.

There's nothing about the album that I find inspiring in any way. It's pretty dull, frankly. But... live, it's a whole different entity. Attila does some terrifying things with his voice... some bizarre operatics akin to those in DMDS but also backwards chanting and other nightmarish things. At the show I witnessed, everything seemed to play out like a narrative, which involved the death of Attila's character about 2/3 the way through the show, which then resulted in some terrifying vocals seemingly uttered from beyond the grave.

Honest to God, the most brilliant live performance of my life. I don't fucking care if you don't like Sunn, they out-grimm 99.8% of every black metal band live.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

I came up with this list yesterday.

MAYHEM - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
ULVER - Bergtatt
IN THE WOODS... - HEart Of The Ages
SATYRICON - Dark Medieval Times
WEAKLING - Dead As Dreams
EMPEROR - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk
FLEURETY - Min Tid Skal Komme
DARKTHRONE - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

 

[einride]

not even 10

 

[Dick Sirloin]

These are off-the-top-of-the-head essentials. Who knows after that.

 

[Valkyria_Cneajna_Rusalka]

Stormlord - At the Gates of Utopia
Embraced - Amorous Anathema
Abyssos - Together We Summon the Dark
Odium - The Sad Realm of the Stars
Limbonic Art - Moon in the Scorpio
Diabolical Masquerade - Nightwork
Hollenthon - With Vilest of Worms To Dwell
The Elysian Fields - Adelain
Mörk Gryning - Tusen År Har Gått
Mystic Forest - Waltz In The Midst Of Trees

 

[EVERLOSTINDEADETERNITY]

There are alot of great black metal albums listed here that I love but one comes to mind that no one has posted. Marduks first couple are awesome but Those Of The Unlight is totally kick ass.

 

[Ars Magna]

Odium - The Sad Realm of the Stars

 

[Demilich]

Odium - The Sad Realm of the Stars

i fucking forgot about this album! i love it, haven't heard it in years
do you own it? share the wealth sometime!

my list:
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Bathory - Bathory
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Inquisition - Invoking the Majestik Throne of Satan
Ulver - Bergtatt
Bethlehem - Dark Metal (not sure if this counts)
Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
Burzum - Det Som Engang Var
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

 

[\/oidhanger]

Odium - The Sad Realm of the Stars

I have a copy of the promo they released right before the album, with different recordings of the songs. I'll rip it and upload it one of these days.

 

[Ars Magna]

I'd like to hear that. They were supposedly reformed and going to record new material. Not sure what happened to that.

 

[\/oidhanger]

I'd like to hear that. They were supposedly reformed and going to record new material. Not sure what happened to that.

Yeah, I've no idea. One song was released on myspace, but I have no idea what's been going on since then.

 

[Agalloch]

This thread needs a lot more Si Monumentum Requires Circumspice.

 

[Vittra]

This thread needs a lot more Kénôse.

Fixed that for you.

 

[\/oidhanger]

Fixed that for you.

You fixed it wrong, DEATHSPELL OMEGA is still in there. :Smug:

 

[Ellestin]

I love this kind of post sequences

no list to provide, even off the top of my skull. Nattend Madrigal would be #1, though. Undethronable.

 

[Vittra]

You fixed it wrong, DEATHSPELL OMEGA is still in there. :Smug:

Not going to lie, that passed through my head before I said it. Hahah

 

[Tranquillian]

Dissection - Storm of the light's bane
Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss
Darkestrah - The great silk road
Mayhem - De mysteriis dom sathanas (I should listen to this more often)
Dawn - Slaughtersun (crown of the triarchy)
Immortal - At the heart of winter
Drudkh - Forgotten legends
Nocte Obducta - Nektar 1&2
Watain - Sworn to the dark
Shining - IV
Summoning - Let mortal heroes sing your fame
Taake - Nattestid ser porten vid
Wolves in the throne room - Diadem of 12 stars

 

[J.]

I love this kind of post sequences

no list to provide, even off the top of my skull. Nattend Madrigal would be #1, though. Undethronable.

studio trick black metal. fuck off garm

 

[einride]

whatever

everything beyond pressing record on a single tape recorder is "a studio trick"

 

[einride]

i'm going to say 1 album per band and something like this:

bathory "blood fire death"
burzum "hvis lyset tar oss"
mayhem "de mysteriis dom sathanas"
darkthrone "transilvanian hunger"
emperor "in the nightside eclipse"
forgotten woods "the curse of mankind"
nokturnal mortum "goat horns"
in the woods... "heart of the ages"
branikald "rdjandalir"
helheim "jormundgand" (let's call this black metal for simplicity's sake)