Top 40 Best Black Metal Albums Of All Time

[@rymcharts]

Spotify list with black metal as a subgenre albums 🔥🔥 open.spotify.com/playlist/4dU7OVXNO6len67vm5LsCh?si=cf1b90aa295d4deb

[@BigOwl51]

Regardless of a few obvious classics that are missing, this is still a great list. I can easily recommend all these albums to any metal fan.

[@honeycomblord9384]

Gotta agree. Surprised that Emperor, Agalloch, Ved Buens Ende, and Burzum were nowhere to be seen

[@genericonion6255]

It’s just cause Rym doesn’t include albums that go under more specific black metal subgenres in this list. Burzum is atmospheric black metal which is seen as so far attached from black metal that it isn’t included in the list. I’m gonna look like a fool if I’m wrong tho.

[@puredragonn]

@@genericonion6255 there's an atmospheric black metal album listed at 1:21 lmao

[@genericonion6255]

@@puredragonn shit I wasn’t looking through too well. I guess I’m a fool. Sorry for any confusion.

[@mickeyrube6623]

@@genericonion6255 Dude, there are several Destroyer 666 albums on here (waaaaay to many, imo), and they are a blackened subgenre of THRASH at best.

[@da0303ni]

No Emperor no party

[@ivanooze8500]

Where's gorgoroth 😬

[@blackheavyblans]

Fr

[@masterseal0418]

Don't see them or Emperor anywhere...

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

​@@masterseal0418Emperor is symphonic metal, it goes for another chart.

[@rymcharts]

i made a mistake and the song playing for satyricon "nemesis divina" is the same as the previous place, sorry

[@xzandher6812]

Great list, I would have personally add: - Tsjuder - Demonic Possession - Urgehal - Massive Terrestrial Strike - Belphegor - Lucifer Incestus - Moonfrost - Starfall - Nokturnal Mortum - Holos Stali or Istyna - Vorga - Striving Towards Oblivion - Forteresse - Thèmes Pour La Rébellion - Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid - Belenos - Kornog and Argoat - Northwind Wolves - Dark. Cold. Grim - Khonsu - the Xun Protectorate - one Cradle of Filth - one of the two first Equilibrium - Emperor - in the Nightside Eclipse - Emyn Muil - Elenion Ancalima - Any Moonsorrow - Finntroll - Nattfod and Vredesvavd - Aorlhac - l'esprit des vent or Pierres brûlées - Marduk - Panzer Division Marduk or Frontschwein - Astral winter - Any records - Limbonic Art - Moon in the Scorpio - Any Behemoth - Any Dissection - Dark Fortress - Tales from Eternal Dusk - Dark Fortress - Profane Genocidal Creation - Any Thulcandra -Any Burzum - Any Saor - Any Necrophobic - Any Dark Funeral - Any Summoning But indeed it's a 40 top there no place for all of them, I know and the list goes on and on

[@dariiofernando]

He has filtered this list under the black metal genre, rtm allows you to do that. And you can do the same thing with symphonic black metal or atmospheric black metal

[@dariiofernando]

so this is why bands like emperor, burzum doesnt appear

[@xzandher6812]

@@dariiofernando ok

[@soijamp]

I personally missed some symphonic albums too from bands like summoning, caladan brod and dimmu borgir

[@gustavoo3886]

DIMMU BORGIR IS NOT BLACK METAL, ITS BULLSHIT

[@alexpisko4333]

Wheres dissection?

[@gggghhhheeee]

Glad to see Nattens Madrigal on here, it's my favorite Black Metal album 😳

[@enricomadrigal9168]

I agree

[@jonathankarr8283]

Enthrone Darkness Triumphant!🤘🏻

[@rymcharts]

TOP 10 EP 10.- Enslaved - Hordanes Land 9.- Mgła - Hordanes Land 8.- Furia - Płoń 7.- Emperor - Emperor 6.- Deathspell Omega - Drought 5.- Deathspell Omega - Mass Grave Aesthetics 4.- Tukaaria / Odz Manouk - Tukaaria / Odz Manouk 3.- Vothana - "A Night of Painful Black Metal" - Rehearsal IV 2.- Deathspell Omega - Veritas Diaboli Manet in Aeternum: Chaining the Katechon 1.- Deathspell Omega - Kénôse

[@morbidangelius8852]

Dso actually goated

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

​@@morbidangelius8852DsO the most important black metal band past the 90's.

[@Podolskiy]

Thanks for adding Furia. But I also would like to add another cool band from Poland - Infernal War and their first and second albums. They are really insane.

[@joeylo3543]

I’m so glad At the heart of winter is recognized like it is. Def my fav

[@Wrightworth]

Fun vids! Top Avant-Garde Metal would be sicc 👌

[@nelsonbit]

surprised not to see bergtatt on this list, as i would give it the 1st place. great video anyways

[@alvarovasquez998]

Nice video! Next could be Progressive Metal

[@sidpunk2034]

i love these videos. would be cool to see u branch out to other genres like hip hop and other rock genres.

[@obtuserin]

A blaze in the northern sky definitely deserves to be #1 💯

[@A-CIM]

Thats a good list of albums . But leviathan’s albums are sick too.

[@theyescapedtheweightofdarkness]

Rym seems to really like deathspell omega

[@theyescapedtheweightofdarkness]

@@meiko_kaji what?

[@diegosolares5492]

Its the best black metal band of all time along with emperor and Ved Buens Ende IMO.

[@UponEarth]

Great stuff, thanks!! Please check out Upon Earth - World Funeral EP Raw black metal from the Netherlands

[@cerealhit555]

Very solid list. Glad to see Deathspell Omega getting these ranks

[@user-yz3ok1yx5l]

No Tenth SubLevel Of Suicide, Peste Noire first album, Sunbather, Altar Of Plagues - White Tomb and Panopticon-Kentucky

[@rymcharts]

there will be other top for depressive black metal

[@andreasskaliontas6380]

great list... sorry for being that guy but where is Emperor?

[@rymcharts]

read description

[@BigOwl51]

This isn’t his opinion but it’s from some online poll. Black metal elitists who probably use that website likely see emperor as “normie trash” because they’re popular.

[@rymcharts]

@@BigOwl51 no, emperor it's on the first place for symphonic black metal, but that's another top

[@MrHobocopter]

Yeah so, if you go on RYM, Emperor have higher ratings on Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk and Into thr Nightside Eclipse than A Blaze in the Northern Sky.

[@rymcharts]

@@MrHobocopter yes but thats symponic, other top

[@akechifangirl]

i love black metal till its night…watching this at night lmao

[@christianricotta3064]

Ahahahah !emperor, Absu,the Shadowthrone of Satyricon, rotting christ,dissection, marduk,mortuary drape,old man's child,varathron,gehenna,impaled nazarene,burzum,Frost from Enslaved, unanimated....????

[@wardochurchfan9166]

Ancient’s Svartalvheim should be on this list

[@Gukimo]

I'm sad looking at this list. :( No Burzum or Emperor ? Or are they not Black Metal ? I'm confused... Also, I know Deathspell Omega are great, but it looks like they made the list. :) And Darkthrone have wayyy too many entries...

[@Gukimo]

I just looked at the description, but then again, I think a "black metal" list should include all sub-genre. And if we're talking only "trve black metal" Satyricon should not be on the list either. Too bad because I like your other lists.

[@rymcharts]

@@Gukimo sorry, i'm not including subgenres because that would be other top, sure emperor is for symphonic black metal list, and burzum for atmospheric black metal list anyway there is a lot videos including subgenres in other channels, my channel it's different

[@lokideath2769]

Bonus Points for putting Katharsis on there And Destroyer 666

[@mitch5300]

Personally hoped for unchain the wolves. Hands down my favorite album from destroyer

[@TheClaudirock]

thanks🤘❤🖤

[@ΣωΕυδαίμωνΑλ]

Emperor?

[@Big_Footless]

Glad to see Batushka on the list!

[@jonnykhatru]

Please can you make a version that includes all subgenres?

[@deaconlasagna8570]

you have helped enlighten me to how weirdly specific and basic RYM members are as a collective entity

[@D_Welch90913]

Secret of the black arts and in defiance of existence deserve a spot on any top black metal album list IMO atleast.

[@ChuckyDoll79]

Glad to see Ulver - Nattens Madrigal. But, where is Burzum?

[@jonnykhatru]

No subgenres are included so no Atmospheric BM, no Melodic BM, no Symphonic BM, no Depressive BM...

[@cubeistagartha6233]

THX A LOT U should check on Biesy - Transsatanizm and Furia newest album named W Śnialni. Surreal shit

[@drvp1996]

Where is all the Burzum? Did they get review bombed because of Varg?

[@NeroAngelo616]

makes you wonder who the real nazi's are, don't they

[@XWNLOX]

I Hope so.

[@honeycomblord9384]

Nah, it only includes albums where regular black metal is the main genre. Otherwise Filosofem would be in the top 5

[@pedrojara5289]

De todos los tiempos" imposible te faltaron muchas bandas dónde está emperor ,gorgoroth,beherit,blasphemy,? Y muchas más

[@rymcharts]

emperor va en el de symphonic

[@rolandoandres84]

Emperor son los príncipes del Black Metal. Qué onda???

[@ivanooze8500]

Fuck yeah furia

[@StarJakeThaSpam]

Lmao, Burzum's "Filosofem" deserved to be in the top 3

[@Thus-Spoke-Zarathustra]

RYM has Filosofem as #1 BM of all time - but missing here??

[@PortugueseMACPOW]

Taake and Sargeist are my favorites

[@viniciusamorim237]

No Emperor? Realy?

[@Twazuhsmalvenner]

Nope to soft bud no can do twinkcore all filler no killer eh sorry bud

[@Abasedbymygrief]

Never realized how rym is completely lackin on Sargeist stuff when it comes to charts. Not a bad list otherwise tho

[@masterseal0418]

2:00 Is that the Ultimate Being?!

[@thnghtvvvnds3636]

It's your top 40, not the top 40 of all time.

[@mattnobrega6621]

Mayhem and immortal are my favorites on here. I think portal should be on the list as well. Just my opinion 🤷

[@hikayeci7455]

Why can't I see Burzum, Gorgoroth and Emperor?

[@judaspriestfan]

my favorite black metal albums - 4 bathory the return 3 bathory bathory 2 bathory blood fire death 1 bathory under the sign. honorable mentions dissection storm of the lights bane every hellripper album sodom ouutbreak of evil mayhem deathcrush (i know its an ep, bite my shiny metal ass) blashpemy fallen angel of doom sarcofago inri and every black speed metal band

[@goatsun1300]

Carelian Satanist Madness? Pentagram? Fran Marder?

[@MicIsMyNick135]

Where is Windir? 😳

[@danniellslamus5368]

No Burzum, no emperor no dissection...

[@ceannairereibiliunach8133]

zero Burzum zero credibility...

[@rymcharts]

burzum for atmospheric black

[@containternet9290]

Burzum is garbage.

[@Paul-2000]

Yeah remember Varg doesn't consider Burzum as black metal

[@containternet9290]

Nah, Burzum is garbage.

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

​@@rymchartsjust thought of this exact same thing.

[@taftoc7288]

Burzwho?

[@rolandoandres84]

And EMPEROR ????

[@dangollapalli5113]

No emperor 😢 but still great stuff

[@coldvoid]

No Burzum, yeah? xDDDD top kek list

[@МеталлистВантузъархив]

Where Cradle of Filth?

[@jaimeandrespertuznieto4555]

Where is "in the nightside eclipse"? It must be the first place.

[@dariiofernando]

Creo que los ha filtrado solo bajo wl genero black metal, rym te permite hacerlo con diferentes generos y subgeneros (como generos principales). Asi que si incluye symphonic black metal, Emperor figura en el puesto 1 o 2

[@BespontobiiPiroshok]

1:25 what who knows name the song?

[@tavarez506]

Exercises in futility is the best album in the history

[@jazielmarley5233]

Where is Bathory???

[@rymcharts]

on the third place??

[@MetalConfederation]

Deathspell Omega?Kinda strange choice...Ancient,Dark Funeral,Marduk (old stuff),Emperor,Dimmu Borgir,Mystic Circle,Lord Belial - where are they ?

[@rymcharts]

empereror goes on symphonic

[@noesis246]

Why DsO in a strange choice lol? They make bm more philosophical and experimental than ever

[@RubsterWTF]

You should do a Proto-Black list if that's possible.

[@rymcharts]

proto black? you mean eighties albums?

[@nobodyburgen4594]

Not possible sadly; it‘s not a genre on RYM.

[@rymcharts]

@@nobodyburgen4594 same as glam metal

[@nobodyburgen4594]

@@rymcharts Glam Metal is a genre on RYM; it’s just housed under Hard Rock instead of Metal.

[@joannitaxvi3386]

Bathory?

[@raulabrahamperezcastillo5793]

No juzgo ni nada pero... realmente has escuchado todos los álbumes de tus videos o scas la información de un sitio web?

[@Dystopico]

Rate your music

[@HittokiriBattousai17]

Meh, you could have included brighter options like Behemoth's Evangelion, for example.

[@JC-lu4se]

Bathory: The Return. All the others just try and emulate it.

[@kicsisziszi]

Vinterland. Painfully missing from the list.

[@rolandoandres84]

Burzum???? Qué onda, si es la matriz del Black Metal. Parece que te falló la Wikirock!!!!

[@noirelectrique8782]

𝕭𝖚𝖗𝖟𝖚𝖒

[@CyrusFlame-p4w]

Not one Burzum or Emperor album. Wow

[@chrisryan2107]

some of good BM albums are below average 3.60-3.50

[@JOAOMIGUEL-ft6pz]

where the fuck is dissection?

[@hernanbonilla8789]

Your are not clear the best album for you, reach it 3,9/5,0 ?

[@stevehoffmann6487]

Marduk ?????

[@EedeePvP]

no Filosofem?

[@mraktvoihglaz984]

it's atmoblack

[@rymcharts]

read description

[@EedeePvP]

@@rymcharts valid, wasn't there when i watched this but Odz Manouk was listed here tho

[@rymcharts]

@@EedeePvP it's atmoblack

[@EedeePvP]

@@rymcharts ye ik, "This list excludes subgenres such as Melodic Black, Symphonic Black, __Atmospheric Black__"

[@DesolateSolitude]

OFERMOD 2012 album

[@punkyu_fyb.7]

Black Metal from Venom??????

[@DesolateSolitude]

ONDSKAPT 2005 album.

[@agitatedscreamsofmaggots4391]

Shining? Psychonaut 4?

[@РасулИргашев-д2ф]

theyre dsbm, perhaps

[@mrmamacitaz]

Where is map of the soul 7 by bts

[@AgemIronn]

This dude don't like Burzum lmao

[@neolbioldey]

Darkthrone best black metal band!!!!

[@juancarloshernandez9142]

😂 🤣 😂

[@sxizas13]

no emperor;;;;

[@bagindamasaitivi2928]

Anti Burzum reviews, hahaha

[@inshysvit]

Burzum???? 😮

[@Dystopico]

Burzum is a trash

[@northenheritage]

taake ist nicht melodic bm

[@SHLKHB]

That terrible immortal album is number two?

[@SHLKHB]

Destroyer 666? Ha

[@SHLKHB]

Panzerfaust over pure h0locaust? Wtf

[@SHLKHB]

That furia band sounds like post rock

[@SHLKHB]

Mgla sucks

[@SHLKHB]

THAT darkthrone album? HA

[@containternet9290]

Your list is very bad, here's the unchallenged top 10: 1 - Mayhem De mysteriss Dom Sathanas 2 - Darkthrone A blaze in the norther Sky 3 - Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse 4 - Enslaved Vikingligr Veldi 5 - Satanic Warmaster Strengh and Honor 6 - Gorgoroth Pentagram 7 - Dark Funeral The secrets of the Black Arts 8 - Windir Sóknardalr 9 - Sodom In the Sign of Evil 10 - Venom Black Metal

[@archiecentrele5783]

Lol, Thats a Mainstream poser list. the same un-original copy and pasted list thats all over the internet. Mutiilation - Vampires of black imperial blood > De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Craft - TerrorPropoganda > A Blaze in the northen sky. Pest - Hail The black metal wolves of belial > Strength and honour FYI: No black metal list is complete without the LLN. If you even know what that is.

[@containternet9290]

@@archiecentrele5783 Nah, Mutilation is a very bad band. Craft - Terror Propaganda is a good album but no more than that. As for Pest Hail The black metal wolves of belial, I must reckon it's new to me so I can't say weather it's good or not but one thing I'm certain, it can't be better than Satanic Warmaster's Strength and honour, besides it's not a full length it's a compilation album. The albums on my list are not nogotiable except for Venom and Sodom's album so I could replace them for Abigor - Nachthymnen and Enthrone - Prophecies Of Pagan Fire but none of these albums you mentioned is worthy of being on my list.

[@archiecentrele5783]

calling another list trash and then saying your list is true and non negotiable. is pretty pathetic. especially when its all mainstream black metal shit. Not liking mutiilation is fair but calling them a bad band is just plain ignorance. Just say your a poser and that the raw black metal sound is to harsh and kvlt for you. Strength and honour has 3 good songs on it. everything else is just boring typical NSBM riffs. Definately not a top 10 by any means. and pentagram is good but no where near top 10 good. Black Dawn - Blood for satan >

[@containternet9290]

@@archiecentrele5783 You're the one calling people poser and absolutly classic black metal albums mainstream. If we go by your stupid logic we can't have Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Motorhead and Iron Maiden's albums on a list of 10 best heavy metal albums of all time. Lol And yeah, Mutilation is a bad band, the Frenchmen produced much better bands such as Deathspell Omega, Anorexia Nervosa, Seth etc. Anyway, it's not that raw black metal is too harsh for me, the problem is that the bands you mentioned are almost all bad, so try again and maybe I can take your list seriously, give me your top 10...

[@NeroAngelo616]

GBK should be here.

[@rahmatsumantri6577]

What are your favorite songs by Grand Belial's Key? Top 10 or 15 if you don't mind

[@NeroAngelo616]

@@rahmatsumantri6577 I just brought the first two albums on original pressing but Turbans Nailed To Their Heads on the latest is nice. Point is they're rated up there but are blacklisted because RYM are pussies.

[@pp-bizon5891]

im kinda suprised that there is no venom

[@rymcharts]

venom never released a black metal record, they only had the name

[@Dudekoffity]

@@rymcharts Lol while I agree with you, I don't know if you understand how controversial a statement that is.

[@rymcharts]

@@Dudekoffity well there's no controversy for me I'm sure about that, they're just speed/thrash metal

[@kantenherrBM]

Great tier list but where's Peste Noire?, La Sanie des siècles - panégyrique de la dégénérescence is one of the best black metal albums :(

[@andreiserban482]

NSBM doesn't deserve promotion

[@nobodyburgen4594]

Nazi albums are removed from the RYM charts.

[@Albvikernes333]

@@andreiserban482 good music deserves promotion.

[@kantenherrBM]

@@andreiserban482 Peste Noire isn't a NSBM band, La Sanie des siècles is based in the book "Les Fleurs du mal" by Charles Baudelaire (a french poetry writer)

[@andreiserban482]

@@kantenherrBM FIrst of all, those two aren't mutually exclusive. Second, even if it were the case that their debut album doesn't overtly touch on NSBM topics, their future albums certainly do. Just look at "Peste Noire split Peste Noire", where everything from the cover to the concept and the message is NSBM. I mean come on, you can make the argument that they're talented artists, which I don't deny, but saying it's not NSBM is laughable considering Peste Noire is the first band that pops up on any NSBM Google search.

[@67hgdtbh9]

um dos piores generos de metal.

[@jefersonmontiel87]

No

[@sanatassued2927]

Péssima lista

[@destinedburn]

And where is a wonderful band from Ukraine called m8l8th playing a wonderful genre of nsbm?

[@Superhiknapada]

Fertilized the fields

[@MrWeed-nk1zk]

as a black metal fan, darkthrone suck

[@КаменноеНебо-я4г]

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