Your top 10 black metal bands

[Claws of Perdition]

Burzum (Nor)
Immortal (Nor)
Mayhem (Nor)
DSO (Fra)
Drudkh (Ukr)
Silencer (Swe)
Lunar Aurora (Ger)
Shining (Swe)
Dawn (Swe)
Astriaal (Aus) - needed some Aussie BM in here

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Emperor - Nor
Enslaved - Nor
Manegarm - Swe
Taake - Nor
Bathory - Swe
Drudkh - Ukr
Nokturnal Mortum - Ukr
Kroda - Ukr
Pagan Reign - Rus
Immortal - Nor
Forefather - UK

bah, thats 11.

 

[Ellestin]

Burzum (Nor)
DsO (Fra)
Lunar Aurora (Ger)
Enslaved (Nor)
Helheim (Nor)
Glorior Belli (Fra)
Drudkh (Ukr)
Clandestine Blaze (Fin)
Ulver (Nor)
Nehëmah (Fra)

 

[Henrik Main]

I'm really biased too, but here goes:

Ofermod (SWE)
Behexen (FIN)
Merrimack (FRA)
Darkthrone (NOR)
1349 (NOR)
Tsjuder (NOR)
Emperor (NOR)
Enslaved (NOR)
Satyricon (NOR)
Antaeus (FRA)

 

[dorian gray]

Everyone here knows where basically every band is from anyway

 

[circus_brimstone]

Darkthrone - Norway
Deathspell Omega - France
Dissection - Sweden
Drudkh - Ukraine
Emperor - Norway
Enslaved - Norway
Immortal - Norway
Shining - Sweden
Negura Bunget - Romania
Wolves in the Throne Room - USA

 

[Demilich]

 

[cthulufhtagn]

pfft way to update jk

 

[JayKeeley]

OK this isn't exact, but close enough:

NORWAY: 57
SWEDEN: 19
FRANCE: 19
UKRAINE: 13
USA: 11
GERMANY: 9
FINLAND: 7
POLAND: 6
ROMANIA: 6
AUSTRIA: 4
HOLLAND: 2
CANADA: 2
COLUMBIA: 1
LITHUANIA: 1
ICELAND: 1

Not many surprises other than I would have expected many more votes for Negura Bunget and Nokturnal Mortum.

Also, to be fair, France should be in the #2 spot simply because people were listing Bathory which bumped up the Sweden numbers.

Either way, Norway are EASILY the dominating force of Black Metal, with obvious repeat votes for the usual suspects (Emperor, Burzum, etc) although it was odd to see Enslaved only getting 5 votes total.

 

[skeptik]

You missed 5 votes for Greece and (I think) 2 from the Czech Republic, aka 40% and 30% of swizzlenuts' and my lists, respectively.

 

[Ellestin]

We should widen that to how many bands of which nationality does everyone own in their collection. It would be interesting to see how stronglz geographical location impacts on the ratio depending on said location. Or something like that.

 

[JayKeeley]

You missed 5 votes for Greece and (I think) 2 from the Czech Republic, aka 40% and 30% of swizzlenuts' and my lists, respectively.

oh yeah. that changes everything.

 

[JayKeeley]

So not much love for Negura Bunget or Nokturnal Mortum anymore?

EDIT: I suppose Negura appeared 6 times, but NM only appeared 3 times: Doomcifer, Mathias, and Krigloch. Interesting.

 

[Thanatopsis123]

I enjoy both but I wouldn't put them in my top 10 now, nor would I have in the past. That said, I've not made a top 10 list of black metal bands. I hope this thread gets bumped when I have access to my CD collection and am not on a black metal hiatus.

 

[skeptik]

Neither of them are probably even in my top 50.

 

[Reign in Acai]

What would your top 50 be Matt (NJ)? Your "100 DM bands better than Amon Amarth" post had a couple good recos lying with in.

 

[JayKeeley]

I think only two bands received a near-perfect score for all their albums on RC (from different reviewers). One was Empyrium and the other was Negura Bunget.

 

[skeptik]

What would your top 50 be Matt (NJ)? Your "100 DM bands better than Amon Amarth" post had a couple good recos lying with in.

I actually did that?

 

[MFJ]

Moonsorrow (late stuff more black metal?)

uh... no, not at all. moonsorrow is not a black metal band, and they have never made any black metal songs. if you want to hear their closest, listen to the re-released and remastered demo. it's good.

 

[BenMech]

Emperor - (Norway)
Root (Czech)
Living Colour (US)
Negura Bunget - (Romania)
Sigh (Japan)
Dissection (Sweden) - maybe black, maybe death
Wolves in the Throne Room (US)
Woods of Ypres (Canada, eh)
Celtic Frost (Switzerland)
Anorexia Nervosa (France)
Melechesh - all over the place
Mercyful Fate - Denmark