Best Black Metal Albums
1,342 albums
| Rank | Cover art | Artist | Album | Rating | Votes | Reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | De mysteriis dom Sathanas (1994) | 92.5 | 117 | 10 | |
| 2 |  | A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992) | 92.9 | 90 | 5 | |
| 3 |  | In the Nightside Eclipse (1994) | 91.6 | 98 | 3 | |
| 4 |  | Écailles de lune (2010) | 92.4 | 81 | 9 | |
| 5 |  | Pentagram (1994) | 94.5 | 41 | 4 | |
| 6 |  | Storm of the Light's Bane (1995) | 91.6 | 74 | 6 | |
| 7 |  | Cruelty and the Beast (1998) | 91.6 | 73 | 8 | |
| 8 |  | Drudenhaus (2000) | 90.6 | 92 | 8 | |
| 9 |  | Sad Legend (1998) | 92.3 | 61 | 3 | |
| 10 |  | Hvis lyset tar oss (1994) | 91.7 | 64 | 0 | |
| 11 |  | Transilvanian Hunger (1994) | 90.9 | 73 | 4 | |
| 12 |  | The Satanist (2014) | 91.8 | 59 | 5 | |
| 13 |  | Dusk... and Her Embrace (1996) | 89.8 | 89 | 9 | |
| 14 |  | Antichrist (1996) | 93.6 | 35 | 2 | |
| 15 |  | मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान (2013) | 93.9 | 27 | 4 | |
| 16 |  | 91.5 | 45 | 3 | ||
| 17 |  | 95.7 | 17 | 1 | ||
| 18 |  | V Empire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein (1996) [EP] | 92.1 | 37 | 6 | |
| 19 |  | Konkurs (2008) | 93.8 | 25 | 0 | |
| 20 |  | Triumvirát (2012) | 95.3 | 17 | 1 | |
| 21 |  | Dol Guldur (1997) | 92.5 | 30 | 2 | |
| 22 |  | Within Deep Dark Chambers (2000) | 93.4 | 24 | 1 | |
| 23 |  | The Moon Lit Our Path (2015) | 93 | 26 | 1 | |
| 24 |  | Litourgiya (2015) | 90.8 | 40 | 4 | |
| 25 |  | V - Halmstad (2007) | 92.6 | 26 | 1 | |
| 26 |  | Vanitas (2012) | 91.9 | 30 | 1 | |
| 27 |  | Evangelion (2009) | 90.2 | 44 | 3 | |
| 28 |  | The Light-Devouring Darkness (2009) | 96.1 | 11 | 0 | |
| 29 |  | Exercises in Futility (2015) | 90 | 43 | 0 | |
| 30 |  | The Whole of the Law (2016) | 92 | 27 | 1 | |
| 31 |  | Blood Fire Death (1988) | 90.5 | 36 | 4 | |
| 32 |  | Omega Arcane (2013) | 88.5 | 56 | 3 | |
| 33 |  | 88.7 | 52 | 6 | ||
| 34 |  | Paracletus (2010) | 89.6 | 42 | 3 | |
| 35 |  | At the Heart of Winter (1999) | 90.5 | 34 | 2 | |
| 36 |  | The Lord ov Shadows (2018) | 91.7 | 25 | 3 | |
| 37 |  | Umbras de Barbagia (2015) | 93.1 | 18 | 2 | |
| 38 |  | Under a Funeral Moon (1993) | 90 | 36 | 2 | |
| 39 |  | By the Blessing of Satan (2004) | 92.1 | 22 | 1 | |
| 40 |  | 90 | 35 | 5 |
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