Best Black Metal Albums
645 albums
| Rank | cover art | Artist name | Album title | Rating | Votes | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  |
De mysteriis dom Sathanas (1994) | 92 | 107 | 9 | |
| 2 |  |
A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992) | 92.8 | 79 | 5 | |
| 3 |  |
In the Nightside Eclipse (1994) | 91.6 | 87 | 3 | |
| 4 |  |
Écailles de lune (2010) | 92.3 | 73 | 8 | |
| 5 |  |
Drudenhaus (2000) | 91.2 | 89 | 8 | |
| 6 |  |
Pentagram (1994) | 94.3 | 38 | 4 | |
| 7 |  |
The Satanist (2014) | 91.9 | 57 | 4 | |
| 8 |  |
Sad Legend (1998) | 92.1 | 53 | 2 | |
| 9 |  |
Transilvanian Hunger (1994) | 90.7 | 68 | 4 | |
| 10 |  |
Dusk... and Her Embrace (1996) | 89.6 | 84 | 8 | |
| 11 |  |
Cruelty and the Beast (1998) | 90.4 | 69 | 6 | |
| 12 |  |
Storm of the Light's Bane (1995) | 90.4 | 66 | 4 | |
| 13 |  |
Hvis lyset tar oss (1994) | 90.2 | 54 | 0 | |
| 14 |  |
95.4 | 16 | 1 | ||
| 15 |  |
Litourgiya (2015) | 91.7 | 36 | 3 | |
| 16 |  |
Within Deep Dark Chambers (2000) | 94 | 21 | 1 | |
| 17 |  |
91.5 | 37 | 3 | ||
| 18 |  |
Triumvirát (2012) | 96.7 | 11 | 1 | |
| 19 |  |
Antichrist (1996) | 92.6 | 28 | 2 | |
| 20 |  |
The Moon Lit Our Path (2015) | 93.6 | 22 | 0 | |
| 21 |  |
V - Halmstad (2007) | 92.8 | 25 | 1 | |
| 22 |  |
मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान (2013) | 93.5 | 21 | 3 | |
| 23 |  |
Konkurs (2008) | 93.2 | 21 | 0 | |
| 24 |  |
The Light-Devouring Darkness (2009) | 96.3 | 10 | 0 | |
| 25 |  |
V Empire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein (1996) [EP] | 91.1 | 32 | 6 | |
| 26 |  |
Pneuma (2012) | 91.8 | 26 | 3 | |
| 27 |  |
Evangelion (2009) | 89.9 | 40 | 3 | |
| 28 |  |
Dol Guldur (1997) | 91.5 | 27 | 2 | |
| 29 |  |
The Whole of the Law (2016) | 92 | 24 | 1 | |
| 30 |  |
Vanitas (2012) | 91 | 30 | 1 | |
| 31 |  |
Exercises in Futility (2015) | 89.8 | 38 | 0 | |
| 32 |  |
At the Heart of Winter (1999) | 90.8 | 30 | 2 | |
| 33 |  |
Blood Fire Death (1988) | 90.6 | 31 | 2 | |
| 34 |  |
Omega Arcane (2013) | 88.2 | 54 | 3 | |
| 35 |  |
Aspera Hiems Symfonia (1996) | 91.7 | 23 | 3 | |
| 36 |  |
Čtvrtá symfonie ohně (2014) [EP] | 97.5 | 6 | 0 | |
| 37 |  |
88.1 | 51 | 6 | ||
| 38 |  |
Pure Holocaust (1993) | 91 | 25 | 1 | |
| 39 |  |
Paracletus (2010) | 89.3 | 37 | 3 | |
| 40 |  |
96.4 | 7 | 0 | ||
| 41 |  |
Umbras de Barbagia (2015) | 93.1 | 15 | 2 | |
| 42 |  |
96.8 | 6 | 0 | ||
| 43 |  |
By the Blessing of Satan (2004) | 91.3 | 21 | 1 | |
| 44 |  |
Redemption Process (2004) | 88 | 44 | 6 | |
| 45 |  |
Dictius Te Necare (1996) | 91.6 | 19 | 3 | |
| 46 |  |
Filosofem (1996) | 85.8 | 72 | 3 | |
| 47 |  |
Griseus (2011) | 90.2 | 26 | 4 | |
| 48 |  |
Волшебство живой природы (2012) | 91.3 | 20 | 1 | |
| 49 |  |
They Became the Falling Ash (2015) | 92 | 17 | 1 | |
| 50 |  |
Under a Funeral Moon (1993) | 89.1 | 33 | 2 | |
| 51 |  |
89.5 | 30 | 4 | ||
| 52 |  |
Stronghold (1999) | 89.8 | 28 | 1 | |
| 53 |  |
Old Mornings Dawn (2013) | 90.5 | 23 | 1 | |
| 54 |  |
97 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 55 |  |
Skullfucking Armageddon (1999) | 91.3 | 18 | 0 | |
| 56 |  |
The Linear Scaffold (1997) | 90.4 | 22 | 1 | |
| 57 |  |
Harakiri for the Sky (2012) | 93.8 | 10 | 2 | |
| 58 |  |
Cold Walls and Apparitions (2005) | 96 | 6 | 1 | |
| 59 |  |
New Bermuda (2015) | 87.4 | 43 | 2 | |
| 60 |  |
89.7 | 25 | 1 | ||
| 61 |  |
Anno Domini (1988) | 92.5 | 13 | 0 | |
| 62 |  |
Takasago Army (2011) | 88.5 | 31 | 1 | |
| 63 |  |
87 | 43 | 5 | ||
| 64 |  |
Melana Chasmata (2014) | 91 | 17 | 0 | |
| 65 |  |
Battles in the North (1995) | 90.5 | 19 | 2 | |
| 66 |  |
Under the Sign of Hell (1997) | 90.5 | 19 | 2 | |
| 67 |  |
Vikingligr veldi (1994) | 89.4 | 24 | 1 | |
| 68 |  |
Envenom (1991) | 92 | 13 | 2 | |
| 69 |  |
Autumn Aurora (2004) | 90.1 | 20 | 4 | |
| 70 |  |
Gods of War (1993) | 93.1 | 10 | 0 | |
| 71 |  |
Jormundgand (1995) | 92.6 | 11 | 1 | |
| 72 |  |
Zrcadlení melancholie (2007) | 96 | 5 | 0 | |
| 73 |  |
96 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 74 |  |
88.5 | 28 | 3 | ||
| 75 |  |
The Lord ov Shadows (2018) | 91.2 | 15 | 0 | |
| 76 |  |
No Morrow Shall Dawn (2013) | 91.8 | 13 | 2 | |
| 77 |  |
凶夢 (Hideous Dreams) (2017) | 93.8 | 8 | 1 | |
| 78 |  |
Witchcraft (1997) | 90.4 | 17 | 1 | |
| 79 |  |
Satanic Black Devotion (2003) | 92.2 | 11 | 1 | |
| 80 |  |
Emergence (2014) | 92.2 | 11 | 0 | |
| 81 |  |
Melancholie² (2008) | 88.3 | 27 | 2 | |
| 82 |  |
Kénôse (2005) [EP] | 94.1 | 7 | 2 | |
| 83 |  |
Pale Folklore (1999) | 91.4 | 13 | 2 | |
| 84 |  |
Ænigma (2013) | 91.4 | 13 | 0 | |
| 85 |  |
The Forlorn (2006) | 90.7 | 15 | 1 | |
| 86 |  |
The Insignificance of Life (2006) | 88 | 28 | 3 | |
| 87 |  |
Dark Space I (2003) | 91.6 | 12 | 1 | |
| 88 |  |
Light of a Dead Star (2002) | 90.3 | 16 | 3 | |
| 89 |  |
90.5 | 15 | 2 | ||
| 90 |  |
New Obscurantis Order (2001) | 88.1 | 26 | 5 | |
| 91 |  |
Enthrone Darkness Triumphant (1997) | 85.5 | 47 | 4 | |
| 92 |  |
Poetry of the Ill-Minded (2017) | 90.4 | 15 | 1 | |
| 93 |  |
92.6 | 9 | 1 | ||
| 94 |  |
With Hearts Toward None (2012) | 93.1 | 8 | 0 | |
| 95 |  |
Roads to the North (2014) | 93.1 | 8 | 0 | |
| 96 |  |
Det som engang var (1993) | 87.2 | 31 | 2 | |
| 97 |  |
87.7 | 27 | 3 | ||
| 98 |  |
Scum.Collapse.Eradication (2012) | 95 | 5 | 0 | |
| 99 |  |
94.2 | 6 | 1 | ||
| 100 |  |
Midian (2000) | 86.3 | 37 | 5 |