Best Black Metal Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
309	A Blaze in the Northern Sky - Darkthrone	1992	85.4	78.8	94	84.6	84.4	93	77	85.8
361	Dead as Dreams - Weakling	2000	85	79.6	90	86.3	86.4	94.6	73	85
483	At the Heart of Winter - Immortal	1999	84.3	78.6	85	82.9	86.7	91.6	80	85.4
510	Paracletus - Deathspell Omega	2010	84.2	78.4	90	83.4	83.9	92.8	75	85.8
513	Terminal Redux - Vektor	2016	84.2	77.8	83	84.8	87.9	92	78	85.6
615	To Mega Therion - Celtic Frost	1985	83.7	76	100	80	79.7	91.6	75	83.8
699	Lonely People With Power - Deafheaven	2025	83.4	77.6	83	83.7	82.2	94.6	77	85.6
735	Under the Sign of the Black Mark - Bathory	1987	83.2	78	90	81	82.2	91.8	75	84.6
857	Black Future - Vektor	2009	82.8	76.8	83	84.6	81.4	90.8	78	85
934	Transilvanian Hunger - Darkthrone	1994	82.6	77.2	90	79.7	80.6	92.2	75	83.2
948	Diabolical Conquest - Incantation	1998	82.5	78.6	90	81.1	82.3	90.6	71	84
1010	Imaginary Sonicscape - Sigh	2001	82.3	74.8	87	81.5	86.2	89.2	75	82.6
1023	Persecution Mania - Sodom	1987	82.3	76	90	81.5	79.4	91.4	74	83.8
1042	The Satanist - Behemoth	2014	82.3	73.8	86	83.5	84.7	91.2	75	81.6
1170	Pure Holocaust - Immortal	1993	81.9	76.6	90	79.3	78.9	91.2	76	81.6
1175	Written in Waters - Ved Buens Ende.....	1995	81.9	75.6	90	78.2	76.9	92.8	76	84
1197	Exercises in Futility - Mgła	2015	81.9	77.2	78	82.7	85	93.6	73	83.6
1230	Blood Fire Death - Bathory	1988	81.8	78.6	70	83.5	85.1	91.4	77	87
1354	Hatred for Mankind - Dragged Into Sunlight	2009	81.5	77.8	75	83.5	85	91.2	75	83.2
1421	Sons of Northern Darkness - Immortal	2002	81.4	76.2	80	83.3	81.8	90.6	76	81.8
1487	Under A Funeral Moon - Darkthrone	1993	81.2	77	80	80.2	80.8	92	76	82.6
1494	Hostile Architecture - Ashenspire	2022	81.2	74.4	90	80.8	81.3	89	74	79
1525	De mysteriis dom Sathanas - Mayhem	1994	81.2	75.4	90	74.6	75.5	93.2	77	82.4
1648	Morbid Tales - Celtic Frost	1984	80.9	75.6	90	75.6	77.1	92	74	82
1662	Outer Isolation - Vektor	2011	80.9	74.8	80	81.7	81.9	91.4	74	82.4
1668	Fas – Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum - Deathspell Omega	2007	80.9	77.2	80	82.2	79.7	89.8	72	85.2
1670	Panzerfaust - Darkthrone	1995	80.9	77	80	81	81.3	91.2	77	78.6
1728	Nemesis Divina - Satyricon	1996	80.8	74.2	83	78.6	80.2	91.8	76	81.6
1870	To the Nameless Dead - Primordial	2007	80.5	75.4	83	79	75.3	91.4	76	83.4
1913	Hammerheart - Bathory	1990	80.4	77.8	70	81.2	83.8	91.6	75	83.4
1986	Kvelertak - Kvelertak	2010	80.3	72.6	86	78.3	80.8	88.2	75	81
1990	The Tenth Sub Level of Suicide - Leviathan	2003	80.3	75.8	80	83.2	81	92.8	71	78
2095	Black One - Sunn O)))	2005	80.1	72.6	90	78	76.4	90.4	77	76
2317	Alphaville - Imperial Triumphant	2020	79.7	72	87	77.8	79.6	91.6	71	78.6
2423	Dark Medieval Times - Satyricon	1993	79.5	72.8	80	77.9	79.2	92.2	74	80.2
2473	Welcome to Hell - Venom	1981	79.4	73	90	76.3	76.7	89.6	74	76
2537	Demigod - Behemoth	2004	79.2	69.6	90	80.6	78.1	88.4	70	78
2556	Below the Lights - Enslaved	2003	79.2	75	80	78.7	80.7	89	70	81
2604	Monotheist - Celtic Frost	2006	79.1	77.4	73	82.5	82.5	90.2	70	78
2632	Frost - Enslaved	1994	79	73.6	80	77.5	80.6	90.4	72	79.2
2644	Mestarin kynsi - Oranssi Pazuzu	2020	79	75	78	76.9	79.2	92.6	73	78.4
2648	Värähtelijä - Oranssi Pazuzu	2016	79	74.6	77	78.8	78.8	90.8	76	77
2653	The Furnaces of Palingenesia - Deathspell Omega	2019	79	71.4	90	74.3	79.5	91	69	77.8
2661	Muuntautuja - Oranssi Pazuzu	2024	79	74.8	78	78	78.3	93.2	72	78.6
2663	H.A.Q.Q. - Liturgy	2019	79	72.6	82	80.4	81.9	87	75	74
2685	Kénôse - Deathspell Omega	2005	79	78.2	70	81.6	76.5	91.2	71	84.2
2712	Black Metal - Venom	1982	78.9	71.4	90	73.9	77.5	89.6	74	76
2991	93696 - Liturgy	2023	78.4	72.4	79	81	79.9	90.4	72	74
3055	Det som engang var - Burzum	1993	78.3	71.6	90	73.2	75.5	90.2	68	79.4
3178	Bathory - Bathory	1984	78	73.2	75	74.7	80.3	90.8	74	78
3658	Vikingligr Veldi - Enslaved	1994	76.9	75.4	70	72.9	79.3	91.2	69	80.4
3692	IX Equilibrium - Emperor	1999	76.8	71.6	80	76.1	75.5	85.4	75	74
3700	Evangelion - Behemoth	2009	76.8	70.2	70	79.4	79.1	89.8	73	76
3732	Battles in the North - Immortal	1995	76.7	71.6	80	74.1	72.7	90.4	76	72
3781	Pentagram - Gorgoroth	1994	76.6	72.8	70	78	74.7	90.4	72	78
3794	Artificial Brain - Artificial Brain	2022	76.5	72.8	78	75.4	70	92.4	69	78
4142	I Loved You at Your Darkest - Behemoth	2018	75.6	66	81	74.6	72.8	90.6	72	72
4257	ION - Portal	2018	75.2	67.4	81	72.7	71.3	90	72	72
4436	Aesthethica - Liturgy	2011	74.6	67.6	76	78.5	77.7	84.4	74	64
4499	Drawing Down the Moon - Beherit	1993	74.4	69.4	70	67.4	74.3	91.6	72	76
4880	Endless Pain - Kreator	1985	72.4	71	50	73.5	77.8	88.2	72	74
4978	The Return...... - Bathory	1985	71.8	71.6	45	71.5	76.1	90.2	72	76
5060	Rainbow Bridge 2 - Sematary	2020	71.1	60.4	80	74.8	65.7	81.6	67	68
5077	Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism - Immortal	1992	70.9	71.4	40	74.6	76.2	89.2	73	72
5100	Deathcrush - Mayhem	1987	70.7	70.4	50	68.2	71.4	88.6	72	74
5264	Grand Declaration of War - Mayhem	2000	68.3	60.8	80	59.1	58.1	85.8	70	64
5285	Belus - Burzum	2010	67.9	65	60	61.9	67.5	88	65	68

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