Essential Albums - Black Metal

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We have been running down the essential heavy metal albums over the last couple weeks and today is time for Black Metal. This list will be the most controversial as black metal is so polarizing among its fans. There are more black metal bands in the world than any other genre of music and some think the more underground and raw the better. Personally I need a little more on the production end than three guys in the forest at midnight recording with a single track tape player.Special thanks to Shamed, BrutalN00dle, thegauntlet, deathofthesun, and mattosaur for help with the list.Absu - TaraAntaeus - Cut Your Flesh and Worship SatanAura Noir - Deep Tracts of HellBathory - BathoryBathory - The Return......Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black MarkBathory - Blood Fire DeathBathory - HammerheartBeherit - Drawing Down the MoonBehexen - By the Blessing of SatanBethlehem - Dark MetalBlasphemy - Fallen Angel of DoomBorknagar - BorknagarCarpathian Forest - Black Shining LeatherCountess - Holocaust of the God BelieversBlut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms GodBurzum - Det som engang varBurzum - Hvis lyset tar ossBurzum - FilosofemDarkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern SkyDarkthrone - Under a Funeral MoonDarkthrone - Transilvanian HungerDeathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, CircumspiceDestroyer 666 - Unchain the WolvesDissection - Storm of the Light’s BaneEmperor - Wrath of the TyrantEmperor - In the Nightside EclipseEnslaved - FrostForest - Like a Blaze Above the AshesGorgoroth - PentagramGorgoroth - Under the Sign of HellGrand Belial’s Key - Mocking the PhilanthropistGraveland - Thousand SwordsGraveland - Carpathian WolvesImmortal - Pure HolocaustImmortal - Sons of Northern DarknessInquisition - Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient CultLeviathan - VerräterLurker of Chalice - Lurker of ChaliceMarduk - Fuck Me JesusMaster's Hammer - RitualMayhem - DeathcrushMayhem - De Mysteriis Dom SathanasNargaroth - Geliebte des RegensNecromantia - Scarlet Evil Witching BlackOranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen PuhuuRitual - The SummoningRoot - Zjeveni/The RevelationRoot - The Temple in the UnderworldSatyricon - Nemesis DivinaSatanic Warmaster - Strength & HonourSummoning - Oath BoundSummoning - Dol GuldurS.V.E.S.T. - UrfaustTaake - NattesidTormentor - Anno DominiThunderbolt - Inhuman Ritual MassmurderTrelldom - Til et annet...Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitlerVenom - Black MetalVenom - At War With SatanVon - Satanic BloodWigrid - HoffnungstodWindir - ArntorXasthur - Nocturnal Poisoning1349 - Hellfire