Top 100 black metal albums

This list shows the 100 highest ranking albums that are currently in our database, ordered by score. This list does not represent the most historically important, influential or legendary Black Metal albums. For those albums, go to the Classic Black Metal Albums section.

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#1

The Ruins of Beverast

Rain upon the Impure

Atmospheric Black Metal

98%

#2

Hordalands Doedskvad

97%

#3

97%

#4

Throne of the Depths

Pagan Black Metal

96%

#5

Atmospheric Black Metal

96%

#6

Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal

96%

#7

Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal

96%

#8

Only True Believers

96%

#9

Invoking the Majestic Throne of Satan

96%

#10

96%

#11

At the Heart of Winter

96%

#12

Under the Sign of Hell

96%

#13

96%

#14

Atmospheric Black Metal

95%

#15

95%

#16

95%

#17

Memoria Vetusta II (Dialogue with the Stars)

Atmospheric Black Metal

95%

#18

95%

#19

Nefarious Dismal Orations

95%

#20

Assorted Armament

95%

#21

Temples of Torment

95%

#22

Of Entropy and Life Denial

95%

#23

Wolves in the Throne Room

Diadem of Twelve Stars

Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal

95%

#24

Over Bjoergvin Graater Himmerik

95%

#25

Black Thrash Attack

Black Metal / Thrash

95%

#26

95%

#27

In the Nightside Eclipse

Symphonic Black Metal

95%

#28

Vikingligr Veldi

Pagan Black Metal

95%

#29

95%

#30

De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

95%

#31

Cultes des Ghoules

94%

#32

Black Metal / Funeral Doom

94%

#33

Thy Darkened Shade

Eternvs Mos, Nex Ritvs

94%

#34

Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal

94%

#35

Wintermoon Enchantment

Atmospheric Black Metal

94%

#36

Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical ...

94%

#37

No God No Satan

94%

#38

Drowning the Light

An Alignment of Dead Stars

94%

#39

Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal

94%

#40

Nokturnal Mortum

Голос сталі (Voice of Steel)

Epic / Pagan Black Metal

94%

#41

Sanojesi Äärelle

94%

#42

Graveforests and Their Shadows

Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal

94%

#43

Zuriaake / 葬尸湖

弈秋 (Afterimage of Autumn)

Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal

94%

#44

Sublimation XXIXA

Black Metal / Death

94%

#45

The Ruins of Beverast

Unlock the Shrine (Reliquary of the White Abyss)

94%

#46

Geliebte des Regens

94%

#47

94%

#48

Deathspell Omega

Inquisitors of Satan

94%

#49

Nocturnal Poisoning

Black Metal / Ambient

94%

#50

Black Metal / Thrash

94%

#51

Errances Oniriques

Pagan Black Metal

94%

#52

Pagan Black Metal

94%

#53

Onwards to the Spectral Defile

94%

#54

The Olden Domain

Pagan Black Metal

94%

#55

Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

Symphonic Black Metal

94%

#56

Thy Dying Light

94%

#57

Pagan Black Metal

94%

#58

Far Away from the Sun

Melodic Black Metal

94%

#59

Welcome My Last Chapter

94%

#60

Atmospheric Black Metal

94%

#61

Storm of the Light's Bane

Melodic Black Metal

94%

#62

Prophecies of Pagan Fire

94%

#63

Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

94%

#64

Transilvanian Hunger

94%

#65

94%

#66

Under a Funeral Moon

94%

#67

Impaled Nazarene

94%

#68

To Mega Therion

Old School Black Metal

94%

#69

Suprême Silence

Pagan Black Metal

93%

#70

Árstíðir Lífsins

Vápna Lækjar Eldr

Pagan Black Metal

93%

#71

The Quest for the Vajra of Shadows

93%

#72

93%

#73

The Old Chamber

Progressive Black Metal

93%

#74

93%

#75

Ygg

Pagan Black Metal

93%

#76

Vîrstele Pămîntului

Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal

93%

#77

Monument to Time End

93%

#78

The Mercian Sphere

Pagan Black Metal

93%

#79

þþþþþþþþþþþ

93%

#80

Eternal Funeral Trance

93%

#81

Pestilential Shadows

In Memoriam, Ill Omen

93%

#82

Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal

93%

#83

Ceremonial Castings

Symphonic Black Metal

93%

#84

The Great Silk Road

Epic / Pagan Black Metal

93%

#85

93%

#86

Eerie Sceneries

Depressive Black Metal

93%

#87

The Arcane Wisdom of Shadows

93%

#88

Haeretichristus

93%

#89

Psalms of Perdition

93%

#90

93%

#91

Fucking Your Creation

93%

#92

Will Stronger Than Death

Pagan Black Metal

93%

#93

Nihilistic Purity

93%

#94

To the Nameless Dead

Pagan Black Metal

93%

#95

Decrowning the Irenarch

Black Metal / Death

93%

#96

Wolves in the Throne Room

Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal

93%

#97

Blood in Our Wells

Atmospheric / Pagan Black Metal

93%

#98

93%

#99

Trollskau, Skrømt og Kølabrenning

Pagan Black Metal

93%

#100

La Sanie des Siècles - Panégyrique de la ...

93%

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