Top 10 Black Metal Bands

[Manic Ferocity]

Early Carpathian Forest is pretty good.

 

[The Ozzman]

Strange Old Brew is great

 

[JontRevolting]

Early Carpathian Forest is pretty good.

Black Shining Leather is the best one IMO

 

[Matt]

Ildjarn
Graveland
Mayhem
Master's Hammer
Negura Bunget
Anorexia Nervosa
Nazgul
Emperor (itne)
Nokturnal Mortem
Infernal War

Not really in any order. Infernal War is my current #10 but countless bands have rotated in there. The others probably won't change though

 

[JontRevolting]

including bands which are just partly blakmetal, like Primordial for example:

1. Primordial
2. Negura Bunget
3. Lunar Aurora
4. Emperor
5. Mayhem
6. Secrets Of The Moon
7. Deathspell Omega
8. Enslaved
9. Nagelfar
10. Solstafir

Nagelfar rules!! Srontgorrth and Virus West are great albums

 

[Jimm O)))]

Carpathian Forest!? Not that great at all. The rest of the list is pretty ace though.

I really did try to get into this band as a couple friends highly recommended them a couple years ago, but they really don't do much at all for me.

 

[Matt]

Ildjarn
Graveland
Mayhem
Master's Hammer
Negura Bunget
Anorexia Nervosa
Nazgul
Emperor (itne)
Nokturnal Mortem
Infernal War

Not really in any order. Infernal War is my current #10 but countless bands have rotated in there. The others probably won't change though

Actually, Deathspell Omega is probably my current 10.

 

[Lord Kur]

i will definately admit there's better bands out there than carpathian forest but i like them for some reason. i just answered the question. no accounting for taste. i could exchange them for interpol.

 

[Lord Kur]

dude, youre in denver?
~gR~

yep, actually right now i am in littleton but i'm looking for an apartment more in the downtown area. finding apartments is a bitch but it's not that expensive. i've looked at some one bedrooms for like $450/month.

 

[Nightmare_Heaven]

These are my favourites

Abigor
Borknagar
Ulver
Summoning
Darkthrone
Arcturus
Gorgoroth
Drudkh
Burzum
Diabolical Masquerade

 

[The Black Prince]

Burzum
Enslaved
Immortal
Bathory
Graveland
Emperor
Sacramentum
Hellhammer/Celtic Frost
Darkthrone
Ildjarn/Sort Vokter

 

[The Butt]

Nagelfar rules!! Srontgorrth and Virus West are great albums

Haven't heard Srontgorrth, but I absolutely adore Virus West.

That being said, my musical scope is pretty limited, due to a combination of having dial-up, and being nowhere near a half-decent record shop. As a result, I've only heard the most mainstream BM bands possible, and if I tried making a list, I'd probably get laughed at.

 

[challenge_everything]

Windir
Emperor
Sacramentum
Enslaved
Arcturus
Negura Bunget
Burzum
Ulver
Apotheosis
Blut Aus Nord

 

[The Ozzman]

This thread has made me realize that I don't listen to enough black metal

 

[Thoth-Amon]

burzum
nokturnal mortum
mercyful fate
emperor
dimmu borgir

 

[HaggardBastard]

Early-mid 90s black metal is really the only thing I care about anymore.

In some sort of vague order:

Mayhem
Darkthrone
Burzum
Emperor
Immortal
Ulver (Bergtatt - Nattens Madrigal)
Enslaved (early, early)
Graveland
Drudkh
Beherit
Aeternus
Deathspell Omega
Blut Aus Nord
Vlad Tepes
Mutiilation
Belketre
Fuck Torgeist. They suck.

The bands I've just listed mean more to me than 99.9% of all of the people I'll ever meet. That means that only one (whole) person in 1000 will mean more to me than these bands. Damn.

80s

Bathory
Hellhammer/Celtic Frost (I guess I'll include the latter - can't hurt)
Venom (when you call them "gods" (sic) could you please make sure you do it with a Z?)
Sodom (pre-Persecution Mania)
Kreator (yes, I'm serious - go listen to Pleasure to Kill, right now, and tell me it doesn't sound like De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. Endless Pain is also early black thrashing noise.)
Sarcofago
Destruction (c.f. the first ep)
Slayer (show no mercy is the bastard child of venom and bathory)

 

[Laevateinn]

In no specific order:

Daemonarch
Burzum
Blut Aus Nord (esp. first 2 albums)
Mjollnir
Limbonic Art
Nokturnal Mortum
Sad Legend
Darkthrone
Absu
Belenos

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Welcome to the board Doug.

 

[Laevateinn]

Thanks Andy.

 

[Vilden]

Fuck Torgeist. They suck.

I agree though that they are the worst of the "big four" but don't suck imo! :>