Top 10 Black Metal Bands

[TheBahggs]

This is my list of the top 10 greatest black metal bands, post yours too!

1. Mayhem
2. Venom
3. Bathory
4. Celtic Frost
5. Emperor
6. Darkthrone
7. Burzum
8. Dark Tranquility
9. Dimmu Borgir
10. Borknagar

 

[funeralportrait91]

Borknagar are a fantastic band but I wouldn't really count them as "proper" black metal... that in mind, here's my list.

1. Ulver (early)
2. Enslaved
3. Dragonlord
4. Old Man's Child
5. Dimmu Borgir
6. Bathory (early)
7. 1349
8. Behemoth (early)
9. Darkthrone
10. Emperor

 

[Skepticism]

Dark Tranquillity is not black metal.

 

[MannequinLimbs]

1 Windir
2 1349
3 Ulver
4 Dissection
5 Enslaved
6 Shining
7 Immortal
8 Xasthur
9 Belphegor
10 Tsjuder

..Nice username. ¬_¬

 

[panzerfaust666]

you listen to system of a down, sorry your opinion on what Black metal is or isnt completely valid.

1-Watain
2-Xasthur
3-Blut Aus Nord
4-Velvet Cacoon
5-Thorns
6-Summoning
7-Deathspell Omega
8-Darkthrone
9-Burzum
10-Aborym

personal favs


EDIT;Ninja'd, at 2 poster guy

 

[genocide roach]

emperor
enslaved
bathory
immortal
dissection
borknagar
blut aus nord
negura bunget
deathspell omega
carpathian forest

and my new band lol
~gR~

 

[Faint]

1. Ulver
2. Primordial
3. Windir
4. Burzum
5. Darkthrone
6. Bathory
7. Deathspell Omega
8. Drudkh
9. Enslaved
10. Summoning

 

[tagradh]

No real order but

Spite Extreme Wing
Dissection
Blut Aus Nord
Windir
Enslaved
Darkthrone
Negura Bunget
Dark Fortress
Nazgul
Limbonic Art

 

[~Neurotica]

8. Dark Tranquility
9. Dimmu Borgir

lol

Just 10 of my favotite bm bands?..


1. Bathory
2. Primordial
3. In The Woods
4. Grimlair
5. Burzum
6. Mercyful Fate
7. Nortt
8. Drudkh
9. Arkcanum
10. Negura Bunget

 

[Skepticism]

No particular order:

Negura Bunget (nice to see a lot of people mentioning them)
Dawn (swe)
Enslaved
Christ Agony (first 3)
Drudkh

There's too many to name, and I can't think of more right now...

 

[TheBahggs]

woops, i meant dark funeral, not tranquility. im suprised that more people havnt included mayhem, one of the founders of modern bm!

 

[Uncreation]

In no particular order:

Blut aus Nord
Leviathan (Swe)
Peste Noire
Deathspell Omega
Summoning
Profanum
Anorexia Nervosa
Sigh
Negură Bunget
Sterbend

 

[waif]

Mercyful Fate? I guess maybe their later stuff...whatever.
I dig black metal, but don't have a lot of it...only listing stuff that I own.
Not in order or anything...

Emperor (Definitely my favorite, by a wide margin)
Bathory
Behemoth
Dimmu Borgir (Not familiar with all their stuff, don't really get why people hate them)
Darkthrone
Dragonlord
Venom (does this count?)
Gorgoroth
Summoning
Zyklon

and I dig but don't own stuff by Dissection, Catamenia, Limbonic Art, Enslaved, Immortal, and Einsiferum

 

[STLicedearth]

1.Burzum
2.Dissection
3.Bathory
4.Darkthrone
5.1349
6.Emperor
7.Mayhem
8.Xasthur
9.Endstille
10.Ulver

 

[MannequinLimbs]

9.Endstille

I completely forgot Endstille. D:

 

[General Zaroff]

1. Mayhem
2. Emperor
3. 1349
4. Kataxu
5. Burzum
6. Satyricon
7. Bathory
8. December Wolves
9. Nokturnal Mortum/Enslaved
10. Darkthrone

Something like that.

 

[skeptik]

Venom
Mercyful Fate
Hellhammer
Bathory
Darkthrone
Burzum
Master's Hammer
Varathron
Summoning
Graveland

 

[Alter]

Mercyful Fate isnt black metal!!1!!11!!!!1 Just kidding. I know they are.

I did not know you liked Summoning.

 

[Killbot]

This is kinda pointless, but I do love a good old fashioned list...

Xasthur
Krohm
The Ruins of Beverast
Blut Aus Nord
Ethereal Woods
Deathspell Omega
Stiny Plamenu
Altoriu Seseliai
Thorns
Lyrinx

 

[Jreg]

Darkthrone
Diabolical Masquerade
Enslaved
Emperor
Funeral Mist
Ulver
Bathory
Negative Plane
Burzum
Primordial