I need your three essential black metal albums so that I can hear the best of what the genre has to offer.
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I need your three essential black metal albums so that I can hear the best of what the genre has to offer
Juan Gomez
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Gabriel Stewart
Leviathan - The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Wolves in the Throne Room - Celestial Lineage
Cameron Hill
My three.
Benjamin Price
Transylvanian Hunger
Under the Sign of Hell
Battles in the North
Ian Ward
weakling - dead as dreams
sacramentum - far away from the sun
absu - tara
Thomas Cox
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
It's hard to pick just three albums since black metal has a wide Varity.
Good choices for USBM
Hudson Parker
You can't pick just 3 black metal albums, the genre has such immense variety that you really need to listen to a fuck ton of black metal albums before you get anywhere near a complete picture of it. That said
Die Mysteriis dom Satanas
Filosofem
Pure Holocaust
if you don't enjoy pure holocaust get the fuck off of black metal
David Jones
if you listen to only one black metal album ever, make it this one.
Juan Parker
I really don't get all the love for the Mayhem album. Their demo is much better, and even then I wouldn't give it that kind of accolade.
Landon Smith
>if you don't enjoy pure holocaust get the fuck off of black metal
Agreed. Back in the day when my car had a 1 disc CD player, I'd have Pure Holocaust on repeat.
>I really don't get all the love for the Mayhem album.
I think it's the heavy guitars and vocal variety that makes it stand out. Don't agree? Go find me an album that is A) BM B) variety of vocals C) "heavy". It's pretty fucking easy to find some that meet two of these (Arcturus is quintessential A + B) but all 3 is a bit harder.
Ryan Jones
I can agree on all those accounts, I just don't think it does anything all that well. Variety is fantastic, but the quality of that variety isn't that good IMO.
Cameron Moore
Top 3
Alcest - Écailles de Lune ( barely bm though )
Immortal - At The Heart Of Winter
Peste Noire - L'ordure à l'état pur
Highly recommended
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Dankthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires Circumspice
Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
Peste Noire - La Sanie Des Siècles
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II
Hate Forest - Battlefields
Nokturnal Mortum - Гoлoc cтaлi
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness ( barely bm )
Moonspell - Under Satanae
Sigh - Imaginary Sonicscape
Dodheimsgard - 666 International
Shining - Blackjazz
The Ruins Of Beverast - Unlock The Shrine
Elijah Brooks
Burzum - Burzum
Mayhem - DeathCrush
Diapsiquir - Anti
Joseph Mitchell
I've been listening to black metal for a long time and my favourites in the genre are:
1. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
2. Ulver - Nattens Madrigal
3. Leviathan - The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide
Aaron Reed
Grand Declaration Of War
Ugra-Karma
Ravishing Grimness
Cooper Adams
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Mayhem - Deathcrush (EP)
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse
Darkthrone - Blaze in the Northern Sky
Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon
Blasphemy - Fallen Angel of Doom
Havohej - Dethrone The Son of God
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Profanatica - Profanatitas de Domonatia
Dissection - The Somgerlain
Summoning - Lugburz
Sacramento - Far Away From The Sun
Absurd - Facta Loquuntur
Noah Perry
ALSO since I just remembered:
Bathory
Impaled Nazarene - Ugra Karma
Rotting Christ - Passage to Arcturo
Xavier Sullivan
>tfw nobody ever posts about satyricon
I know it sucks that they literally sold out but I love some of their earlier albums.
Liam Davis
I loved the quiet flute and strings parts.
Eli Flores
Filosofem
De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Factually the three best.
Aiden Phillips
Dead killing himself before the recording of De Mysteriis is probably the best thing that happened to black metal.
James Edwards
mah nigguh. Satyricon's first album is one of my favourite black metal records, it just perfectly captures that "old & cold" atmosphere that so many band struggle to create. Truly a masterpiece.
Noah Smith
Satyricon is one of the most mediocre black metal bands even to date, how anyone would consider their albums great is stuck in the past and is a second wave hardass hipster, because Emperor has them beat in every regard
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Nicholas Foster
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this was made by regular lurks in the black metal general thread. its essential.
Austin Mitchell
have three essential melodic BM albums
>Bal-Sagoth - Starfire Burning upon the Ice-Veiled Throne of Ultima Thule
>Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
>Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
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Carson Robinson
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Jonathan Young
What's this album? Reverse search gives me 'campfire'.
Zachary Diaz
brujeria - raza odiada
burzum - filosofem
cradlle fith - The Principle of Evil Made Flesh
Liam Baker
Nemesis Divina is a 10/10 record you goddamn pleb
Christian Jenkins
Not counting first wave bands:
Archgoat - Whore of Bethlehem
Katharsis - 666
Sabbat - Envenom
Noah Phillips
>brujeria - raza odiada
is this a meme
Jacob Bennett
Ulver - Bergtatt
Mayhem - Live in Leipzig
Plaga - Magia Gwiezdnej Entropii
Adrian Diaz
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Nathaniel Howard
let me mexibros have one, bruh
Jordan Moore
Fyrdung - Hyperborea
Sigrblot - Blodsband (Blood Religion Manifest)
Bilskirnir - Wotansvolk
Aaron Williams
ulver - bergatt
Darkthrone - Transylvanian hunger
Immortal - holocaust
Blake Nguyen
1. Bruzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
2. Ulver - Bergtatt
3. Negura Bunget - Om
Matthew Parker
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
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There's nothing more KVLT than Darkthrone
Peste Noire - La Sanie Des Siècles - Panégyrique De La Dégénérescence
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I just love Famine vocals, and that melody that goes through all the album is sick. Listen to Dueil Angoisseus, my fave song from this album
Grand Belial's Key - Mocking the philanthropist
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Fucking GBK is such a riff machine, with some mix of heavy metal and black metal.
Hope you enjoy these albums as me
Connor Williams
Nordglanz - Von Helden Und Händlern
Juan Hernandez
Lateposting to say that this is a great album, just not something i would rec to a newbie
Jeremiah Foster
How about some melodic black metal like Watain - Sworn to the Dark or Melechesh - Emissaries? That stuff's good but also more accessible.
Some Finnish ("3rd wave") black metal also deserves a mention. At least check out Sargeist's Satanic Black Devotion and/or Let the Devil In.
Also, maybe some more brutal bands to show what the genre is capable of: Swallowed (Fin), Nyogthaeblisz, Blasphemy, etc.
Also...
This album is so dull.
Levi Cook
The best answer is objectively:
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Burzum - Filosofem
These 3 albums are all classics of the genre and all represent the epitomes of the important musical qualities which frequently occur in black metal.
PH is the epitome of cold mayhemic blizzard riffs and endless blast beats, creating the "trapped in a snowstorm" effect.
TH as a masterpiece example for the raw lo-fi minimalistic side of the genre.
Lastly, Filosofem epitomizes the atmospheric aspects of black metal by creating absolutely unique and never replicated walls of distorted sound and eerie synths.
Jayden Harris
quite nice tastes in this thread
check out these:
Falls Of Rauros - The Light That Dwells In Rotten Wood
Nasheim - Solens Vemod
Paysage d'Hiver - Das Tor
Abigor - Leytmotif Luzifer
Thorns - s/t