50 Greatest Black Metal Albums

Criteria: These Black Metal Albums were chosen for their musical and lyrical quality, creativity, originality, influence, and popularity within the genre.
Black Metal Albums
1. Under The Sign Of The Black Mark
Bathory
2. Blood Fire Death
Bathory
3. In The Nightside Eclipse
Emperor
4. Transylvanian Hunger
Darkthrone
5. Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Burzum
6. De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Mayhem
7. Storm of The Light's Bane
Dissection
8. Under A Funeral Moon
Darkthrone
9. Filosofem
Burzum
10. Pure Holocaust
Immortal
11. Anthems to the Welk at Dusk
Emperor
12. Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 Capitler
Ulver
13. At The Heart of Winter
Immortal
14. Vikingligr Veldi
Enslaved
15. A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Darkthrone
16. Far Away From The Sun
Sacramentum
17. The Somberlain
Dissection
18. Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Dimmu Borgir
19. Battles In The North
Immortal
20. Arntor
Windir
21. Dark Medieval Times
Satyricon
22. HEart of the Ages
In The Woods
23. Opus Nocturne
Marduk
24. Principles of Evil Made Flesh
Cradle of Filth
25. Det Som Engang Var
Burzum
26. INRI
Sarcofago
27. Drawing Down The Moon
Beherit
28. Bathory
Bathory
29. Frost
Enslaved
30. Thy Mighty Contract
Rotting Christ
31. Ceremony of Opposites
Samael
32. Ugra Karma
Impaled Nazarene
33. Gods of War
Blasphemy
34. Pentagram
Gorgoroth
35. Thorns
Thorns
36. Nattens madrigal
Ulver
37. Nattestid ser porten vid
Taake
38. Verisakeet
Moonsorrow
39. Anno Domini
Tormentor
40. Burzum
Burzum
41. The Return...
Bathory
42. Ritual
Master's Hammer
43. V - Halmstad
Shining
44. Thy Dying Light
Judas Iscariot
45. Thousand Swords
Graveland
46. Dol Guldur
Summoning
47. OM
Negura Bunget
48. Vampires of Black Imperial Blood
Mutiilation
49. The Work Which Transforms God
Blut Aus Nord
50. Slaughtersun
Dawn

Under The Sign Of The
Black Mark

Blood Fire Death

In The Nightside Eclipse

Transylvanian Hunger

Last Updated: 2017-05-23
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