Best Black Metal Bands
711 bands
Rank | Image | Band / Formed / Genres | Albums |
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1 | 1991, United Kingdom Symphonic Black Metal, Gothic Metal | Cruelty and the Beast (1998) #77 Dusk... and Her Embrace (1996) #141 V Empire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein (1996) [EP] #182 | |
2 | 1987, Norway Black Metal, Death Metal, Heavy Metal, Speed Metal | A Blaze in the Northern Sky (1992) #46 Transilvanian Hunger (1994) #168 Under a Funeral Moon (1993) #433 | |
3 | 1984, Norway Black Metal, Avant-garde Metal | De mysteriis dom Sathanas (1994) #25 De Mysteriis Dom. Sathanas (2020) [Boxed set] Chimera (2004) #985 | |
4 | 1993, Norway Symphonic Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal | ||
5 | 1991, Norway Black Metal, Ambient | ||
6 | 1991, Norway Black Metal, Symphonic Black Metal | In the Nightside Eclipse (1994) #42 Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (1997) #394 Prometheus: The Discipline of Fire & Demise (2001) #1491 | |
7 | 1991, Poland Black Metal, Death Metal | ||
8 | 1993, Austria Atmospheric Black Metal, Symphonic Black Metal | ||
9 | 1991, Norway Black Metal | ||
10 | 2003, Australia Progressive Metal, Melodic Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal | ||
11 | 1995, France Symphonic Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal | ||
12 | 1999, United Kingdom Industrial Black Metal, Grindcore | The Whole of the Law (2016) #353 Vanitas (2012) #370 Hell Is Empty, And All the Devils Are Here (2007) #529 | |
13 | 1992, Norway Black Metal | ||
14 | 1992, Italy Melodic Black Metal, Symphonic Black Metal, Gothic Metal | As the Angels Reach the Beauty (1999) #430 Scourge of Malice (2001) #577 Engraved in Black (2003) #4829 | |
15 | 1998, France Black Metal, Avant-garde Metal | Fas- Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum (2007) #745 Paracletus (2010) #773 Si Monvmentvm Reqvires, Circvmspice (2004) #1241 | |
16 | 1989, Sweden Melodic Black Metal, Death Metal | ||
17 | 1983, Sweden Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Viking Metal | ||
18 | 1996, Sweden Depressive Black Metal, Black Metal | ||
19 | 1999, France Shoegaze, Blackgaze, Post-Metal | ||
20 | 1990, Sweden Black Metal | ||
21 | 1997, Korea Melodic Black Metal | ||
22 | 2010, Czech Republic Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal | ||
23 | 2000, Poland Black Metal | ||
24 | 1988, Colombia Black Metal | Nefarious Dismal Orations (2007) #690 Black Mass for a Mass Grave (2020) #967 | |
25 | 1999, Finland Melodic Death Metal, Symphonic Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal | ||
26 | 1990, Japan Black Metal, Avant-garde Metal | ||
27 | 2003, Korea Symphonic Black Metal, Gothic Metal | The Lord ov Shadows (2018) #389 The Pregnant of Despair (2009) #1817 The Lunatic Chapters of Heavenly Creatures (2014) #3161 | |
28 | 1993, Sweden Black Metal | The Secrets of the Black Arts (1996) #1399 In the Sign... (2000) [EP] Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus (2009) #1685 | |
29 | 1991, Norway Black Metal, Viking Metal, Progressive Metal | ||
30 | 1991, Norway Black Metal | ||
31 | 2002, Ukraine Atmospheric Black Metal | Autumn Aurora (2004) #649 Кров у наших криницях (Blood in Our Wells) (2006) #899 | |
32 | 1984, Japan Black Metal, Thrash Metal | ||
33 | 1995, Taiwan Melodic Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal | ||
34 | 2005, Sweden Black Metal, Depressive Rock | ||
35 | 2015, Australia Atmospheric Black Metal | ||
36 | 1987, Canada War Metal, Black Metal | Fallen Angel of Doom (1990) #782 Gods of War (1993) #1055 Desecration of São Paulo - Live in Brazilian Ritual Third Attack (2016) [Live] #2418 | |
37 | 1989, Finland War Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal | ||
38 | 2008, Sweden Atmospheric Black Metal, Ambient | ||
39 | 2013, Azerbaijan Blackgaze, Post-Rock | ||
40 | 1991, France Black Metal | Remains of a Ruined, Dead, Cursed Soul (1999) #1856 Vampires of Black Imperial Blood (1995) #2146 Rattenkönig (2005) #2298 | |
41 | 1990, United States Black Metal, Death Metal | The Curling Flame of Blasphemy (2016) #1268 Altar of the Virgin Whore (2018) [EP] #1271 Disgusting Blasphemies Against God (2010) #1378 | |
42 | 1991, Germany Depressive Black Metal, Death Doom Metal | ||
43 | 1993, Norway Black Metal, Ambient, Electronic | Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler (1995) #1837 Kveldssanger (1996) #2606 Nattens madrigal: Aatte hymne til ulven i manden (1997) #3112 | |
44 | 1987, Greece Melodic Black Metal, Grindcore, Gothic Metal, Death Metal | Their Greatest Spells (2018) [Compilation] Thy Mighty Contract (1993) #1934 Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού (2013) #2746 | |
45 | United States Atmospheric Black Metal, Psychedelic Rock | False Legends (2013) [EP] Nji. Njiijn. Njiiijn. (2008) | |
46 | 2010, United States Blackgaze, Atmospheric Black Metal | ||
47 | 1996, Finland Black Metal | ||
48 | 2015, Poland Black Metal | Литургия (Litourgiya) (2015) #280 Yekteníya VII (2015) [Single] | |
49 | 1992, United States Black Metal | ||
50 | 1994, Norway Melodic Black Metal, Black Metal |
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