50 Greatest Black Metal Albums

Album covers Under The Sign Of The Black Mark, and In The Nightside Eclipse
Criteria: These Black Metal Albums were chosen for their musical and lyrical quality, creativity, originality, influence, and popularity within the genre.

Last Updated: 2017-05-23
Newly added names are in  Red 
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 album cover
Under The Sign Of The
Black Mark

Blood Fire Death album cover
Blood Fire Death

In The Nightside Eclipse album cover
In The Nightside Eclipse

Transylvanian Hunger album cover
Transylvanian Hunger








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