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2022 Black Metal Album Releases
2021
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Feb 11
Zeal and Ardor
Zeal & Ardor
74
critic score
(9)
68
user score
(365)
Aug 26
Sigh
Shiki
83
critic score
(5)
78
user score
(260)
Jun 17
White Ward
False Light
83
critic score
(4)
78
user score
(242)
Sep 16
Behemoth
Opvs Contra Natvram
80
critic score
(8)
65
user score
(132)
Oct 28
Darkthrone
Astral Fortress
80
critic score
(5)
69
user score
(127)
Jan 28
Krallice
Crystalline Exhaustion
70
critic score
(3)
73
user score
(126)
Mar 18
Dark Funeral
We Are The Apocalypse
86
critic score
(5)
61
user score
(122)
Jan 14
Wiegedood
There's Always Blood at the End of the Road
85
critic score
(4)
72
user score
(103)
May 6
Ibaraki
Rashomon
80
critic score
(5)
77
user score
(99)
Sep 9
An Abstract Illusion
Woe
85
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(93)
May 20
Blut aus Nord
Disharmonium - Undreamable Abysses
82
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(91)
Jan 28
Celeste
Assassine(s)
80
critic score
(5)
68
user score
(83)
Mar 4
Hath
All That Was Promised
84
critic score
(5)
75
user score
(76)
Apr 22
Mizmor & Thou
Myopia
78
user score
(70)
Oct 5
Liturgy
As The Blood of God Bursts The Veins of Time
77
user score
(68)
Mar 23
Deathspell Omega
The Long Defeat
68
user score
(67)
Jul 15
Scarcity
Aveilut
78
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(66)
Apr 29
Watain
The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain
87
critic score
(5)
71
user score
(66)
Sep 23
Gaerea
Mirage
81
critic score
(5)
78
user score
(60)
Aug 28
Trhä
vat gëlénva!!!
100
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(56)
Jul 22
Wake
Thought Form Descent
74
critic score
(5)
77
user score
(53)
Aug 26
BlackBraid
Blackbraid I
85
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(50)
Apr 15
Saidan
Onryō II: Her Spirit Eternal
78
user score
(46)
Jun 17
Krallice
Psychagogue
78
critic score
(2)
72
user score
(45)
Mar 6
Trhä
tálcunnana dëhajma tun dejl bënatsë abcul’han dlhenisë ëlh inagat, jahadlhë adrhasha dauzglën nu dlhevusao ibajngra nava líeshtamhan ëf novejhan conetsë danëctsë kin, ëf tu dlhicadëtrhënna bë ablhundrhaba judjenan alhëtangrasë shidandlhamësë inkom
77
user score
(44)
May 6
Tómarúm
Ash in Realms of Stone Icons
80
critic score
(3)
79
user score
(42)
Oct 5
Liturgy
93696
93
user score
(42)
Dec 9
Woods of Desolation
The Falling Tide
80
critic score
(3)
73
user score
(42)
Mar 8
Véhémence
Ordalies
70
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(37)
Nov 11
Drudkh
Всі належать ночі (All Belong to the Night)
84
critic score
(4)
78
user score
(37)
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Apr 30
Negative Plane
The Pact...
75
user score
(37)
Jan 15
Μνήμα [Mnima]
Disciples of Excremental Liturgies
70
user score
(37)
Aug 25
Autonoesis
Moon of Foul Magics
76
user score
(35)
Apr 1
Ultha
All That Has Never Been True
74
user score
(35)
Apr 29
Devil Master
Ecstasies of Never Ending Night
85
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(33)
Jun 24
Saor
Origins
75
critic score
(7)
75
user score
(33)
Jun 10
Sunrise Patriot Motion
Black Fellflower Stream
72
user score
(33)
Aug 16
Trhä
mã Héshiva õn dahh Khata trhândlha vand ëfd datnen Aghen Ecíës drhãtdlhan savd
74
user score
(30)
Feb 18
Pure Wrath
Hymn To The Woeful Hearts
80
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(30)
Nov 25
Trhä
endlhëdëhaj qáshmëna ëlh vim innivte
77
user score
(30)
Sep 2
Gudsforladt
Friendship, Love And War
79
user score
(26)
Dec 16
Misþyrming
Með hamri
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(26)
May 13
Bríi
Corpos Transparentes
75
user score
(24)
Mar 25
Abbath
Dread Reaver
72
critic score
(6)
61
user score
(24)
Feb 4
Vorga
Striving Toward Oblivion
86
critic score
(3)
73
user score
(23)
Jul 29
Grima
Frostbitten
80
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(23)
Jul 21
Panzerfaust
The Suns of Perdition - Chapter III: The Astral Drain
80
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(20)
Jan 14
Nameless Mist
Nameless Mist II
77
user score
(20)
Jun 17
Esoctrilihum
Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh
85
critic score
(2)
65
user score
(20)
Jan 21
Pensées Nocturnes
Douce Fange
74
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(19)
May 20
Predatory Light
Death and the Twilight Hours
50
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(18)
Dec 30
Satanic Warmaster
Aamongandr
80
user score
(18)
May 27
Doldrum
The Knocking, Or The Story of the Sound that Preceded Their Disappearance
79
user score
(17)
Sep 30
Coldworld
Isolation
80
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(16)
Mar 25
Kvaen
The Great Below
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(15)
Nov 23
Djevel
Naa skrider natten sort
100
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(14)
Nov 25
Lykotonon
Promethean Pathology
73
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(13)
May 20
Luminous Vault
Animate the Emptiness
80
critic score
(1)
62
user score
(13)
Feb 3
Curta'n Wall
Crocodile Moat!!!!!!!
73
user score
(13)
Feb 18
Moonlight Sorcery
Piercing Through the Frozen Eternity
63
user score
(13)
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