Your top 10 Black Metal albums

[VelociBrad]

To be honest Mercyful Fate musically isn't Black Metal, but that's also true that corpsepaint and lyrics ARE Black Metal.

Mercyful Fate is black metal. They were black metal before the 2nd wave existed, and they are black metal after. 1st Wave BM is still BM.

anyway.

1. Bathory - Bathory
2. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
3. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
4. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
5. Blasphemy - Fallen Angel of Doom
6. Negura Bunget - Om
7. Black Witchery - Desecration of the Holy Kingdom
8. Archgoat - Angelcunt (Tales of Desecration)
9. Dawn - Slaughtersun (Crown of the Triachy)
10. Dissection - The Somberlain

 

[Personified Hatred]

Mercyful Fate is black metal. They were black metal before the 2nd wave existed, and they are black metal after. 1st Wave BM is still BM.

anyway.

1. Bathory - Bathory
2. Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
3. Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
4. Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
5. Blasphemy - Fallen Angel of Doom
6. Negura Bunget - Om
7. Black Witchery - Desecration of the Holy Kingdom
8. Archgoat - Angelcunt (Tales of Desecration)
9. Dawn - Nær Sólen Gar Niþer For Evogher
10. Dissection - The Somberlain

I said MUSICALLY. Indeed "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" and "Melissa" SOUND equal, of course. Don't say craps, Mercyful Fate sounds Classical Heavy Metal, and the only Black Metal things Mercyful Fate has are corpse paint and lyrics.

 

[challenge_everything]

At the moment something like this:

Ulver - Bergtatt
Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
Dawn - Nær Sólen Gar Niþer For Evogher
Negura Bunget - 'n Crugu Bradului
Windir - 1184
Gorgoroth - Pentagram
Aeternus - Beyond the Wandering Moon
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Mütiilation - Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul

 

[challenge_everything]

9.) Dornenreich - Bitter Ist's Dem Tod Zu Dienen

Great album

 

[VelociBrad]

I said MUSICALLY. Indeed "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" and "Melissa" SOUND equal, of course. Don't say craps, Mercyful Fate sounds Classical Heavy Metal, and the only Black Metal things Mercyful Fate has are corpse paint and lyrics.

Wrong. Stop trying to define black metal based on the SECOND WAVE. There was a FIRST WAVE and that included Mercyful Fate.

 

[Personified Hatred]

Wrong. Stop trying to define black metal based on the SECOND WAVE. There was a FIRST WAVE and that included Mercyful Fate.

I've understood. Probably also Venom were part of the first wave, no?

 

[CF87]

I said MUSICALLY. Indeed "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" and "Melissa" SOUND equal, of course. Don't say craps, Mercyful Fate sounds Classical Heavy Metal, and the only Black Metal things Mercyful Fate has are corpse paint and lyrics.

A style a band plays is not 'changed' because of bands that followed and are influenced. It's not Mercyful Fate's fault or any first wave BM band that majority of the bands sound nothing like them or anything. Venon,Celtic Frost,Bathory are also black metal bands.

 

[VelociBrad]

I've understood. Probably also Venom were part of the first wave, no?

Venom, Mercyful Fate, Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, Bathory, Flames of Hell, N.M.E., Bulldozer, some others i'm not remembering right now.

 

[Lateralus14]

Off the top of my head probably something like

Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath
Negura Bunget - Om
Gorgoroth - Pentagram
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
Ulver - Bergtatt
Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
ColdWorld - Melancholie^2
The Ruins of Beverast - Rain Upon The Impure

 

[Draehl]

Drudkh - Blood in Our Wells
Enslaved - Isa
Falkenbach - ...Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri...
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Melechesh - Emissaries
Myrkgrav - Trollskau, Skrømt Og Kølabrenning
Walknut - Graveforests And Their Shadows
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Windir - 1184
WITTR - Two Hunters

 

[byrne]

1. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
2. Primordial - Spirit the Earth Aflame
3. Bathory - Blood Fire Death
4. Aeternus - Beyond the Wandering Moon
5. Dissection - The Somberlain
6. Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice
7. Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
8. Tormentor - Anno Domini
9. Zyklon-B - Blood Must be Shed
10. Arcane Sun - Arcane Sun

Others not otherwise mentioned in the thread that I considered:
Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi
Gogoroh - Antichrist
Moonblood - Blut Und Krieg
Nachtfalke - Doomed to Die
Summoning - Dol Guldur
Varathon - His Majesty at The Swamp
Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter

 

[Manic Ferocity]

Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Gorgoroth - Pentagram
Absurd - Facta Loquuntur
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Aeternus - Beyond the Wandering Moon
Abigor - Verwustung / Invoking the Dark Age
Graveland - Thousand Swords
Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
Summoning - Nightshade Forests
Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi

 

[Einherjar86]

10. Arcane Sun - Arcane Sun

?

Great album though. Regretfully, I do not own my own copy.

 

[gundamterran]

1. Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
2. Krieg - The Black House
3. Profanatica - Disgusting Blasphemies Against God
4. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
5. Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice
6. Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
7. Peste Noire - La Sanie des siècles - Panégyrique de la dégénérescence
8. Enslaved - Below the Lights
9. Ildjarn - Strength and Anger
10. Judas Iscariot - Thy Dying Light

Yes, I'm probably going to get a lot of shit for this list. haha

 

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

Great album

Yeah, actually that is a fucking awesome album.

 

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

lol Arcane Sun is in no way black metal.

 

[General Zaroff]

Cliche faggotry incoming off the top of my head. (no order)

Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Burzum - Filosofem
Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Judas Iscariot - Thy Dying Light
Kataxu - Hunger Of Elements
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

 

[WCannibal]

Deathspell Omega - Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice
Blut aus Nord - The Work which Transforms God
Ulver - Bergtatt
Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Nokturnal Mortum - Lunar Poetry
Silencer - Death- Pierce Me
Farsot - IIII
Taake - Nattestid Ser Porten Vid
Imperium Dekadenz - Procella Vadens

Not necessarily in order.

 

[damnromulans]

lol someone from here sent me a facebook message demanding why I don't like "Filosofem"

I also unabashedly defend the first black metal album I ever owned which is "Dusk and Her Embrace" by Cradle of Filth. In the beginning I just wanted the most ridiculous, absurd, "goth-est" thing out there, and I have not heard any symphonic cheese that even compares to the magnificent theatrical cheese of that album.

 

[SkiesAtOurFeet]

lol someone from here sent me a facebook message demanding why I don't like "Filosofem"

I wouldn't necessarily call it demanding, more along the lines of curiosity and conversation but whatever.