ALL BLACK METAL: RANKED

Netherlands
atmospheric black metal

Netherlands
atmospheric black metal / ambient

England
atmospheric black metal / black metal

white-hot tremolo riffs that sound like they could go on forever. an inhumanly fast drum machine hammering out nonstop blastbeats. sparse, distant howls emanating from another plane. this is black metal distilled to its absolute purest essence

EDIT: god this sounds so nerdy reading it back but whatever its accurate!!!

Switzerland
speed metal / first wave black metal / thrash metal

Switzerland
atmospheric black metal

USA (New York)
avant-garde metal / transcendental black metal

Netherlands
atmospheric black metal

USA (Hawaii)
raw black metal

upon chapel cross
stab the lamb
spinning in reverse
kaleidoscope
artistic blood...

Canada
black noise / raw black metal

Germany
atmospheric black metal

i discovered this at random while digging around blogspots shortly after it was released. after a seemingly promising, short, quiet, cello(?) intro (probably a sample), i was immediately FLOORED by a blaze of warm and intensely melancholic tremolo riffs, subtle droning blastbeats, and strangely audible bass in the form of the second track, "Jählings naht ein Schrecknis an" which had a pretty profound effect on me. "Wurmestugend" is the other track that destroys me every time i hear it, and the only reason this album doesn't have a 100 is because the other tracks are just sliiiiightly under the par set by those two. what i get from this album is melancholy: melancholy of a very particular and special kind that i can't specifically identify

unfortunately it seems like the few other people that have heard this album have for the most part not had the same experience, judging by the VERY lukewarm average and distinct lack of glowing reviews it has on this site. the disparity between my appreciation of this album and the general public's response to it is so great that it makes me question my sanity

please, people, listen to this and validate my inordinately positive opinion

Czechia
first wave black metal / black thrash

USA (California)
black metal / avant-garde metal

Sweden
RABM / norsecore

Poland
blackened crust

Norway
melodic black metal

USA (Tennessee)
folk black metal / atmospheric black metal / dissonant black metal

fantastic "Southern Gothic Black Metal" album that takes a wide range of black metal influences - traditional bm, atmospheric bm, and even more experimental dissonant bm - and incorporates influence from american folk music. this results in some absolutely breathtaking riffs, banjo and steel guitar highlights, and folky clean-sung melodic sections that come together to create a very impressive and unique sound. Panopticon fans (and Black Candle Wax fans lol) will definitely want to check this out

Slovakia
black metal / heavy metal (black trad)

Poland
black metal

black metal with Russian orthodox liturgical chanting

Netherlands
atmospheric black metal

Canada
atmospheric black metal / depressive black metal

Austria
symphonic black metal / atmospheric black metal / epic black metal

Italy
black metal / black trad

USA (California)
raw black metal / dungeon metal

https://grimestone.bandcamp.com/album/old-nick-haunted-loom

really fantastic melodic raw bm with lots of passionate, romantic vibes and interesting synth fuckery. featuring the founder of Grime Stone records i believe, who i'm pretty sure is a communist, so a bonus point there heh

from the bandcamp:
"no renaissance, my home is in the dark ages.
haunted threads will entangle you, and banished from thine chamber pot
keep away, for you know not the unfathomable deeps of the wells in which we dwell"

USA (Unknown)
raw black metal

Bulgaria
RABM / black metal / atmospheric black metal

USA (Florida)
black metal / black trad

USA (Nebraska)
raw black metal

Brazil
atmospheric black metal / avant-garde metal

Brazil
atmospheric black metal / folk metal

acoustic!

Germany
first wave black metal / crust punk

meaty, midpaced, ultra-primitive, loose, sloppy and crusty first-wave black metal very much in the vein of HELLHAMMER.

England
atmospheric black metal / blackgaze

Portugal
raw black metal / raw atmospheric black metal

Sweden
atmospheric black metal

USA (California)
folk black metal / symphonic black metal / dungeon metal

wacky lofi black metal with dungeon symphonics and jaunty as FUCK medieval folk melodies. extremely fun stuff you could do a merry jig to. very clearly an Abysmal Specter project in the best way

WE FIGHT FOR THE KINGDOM
WE FIGHT FOR THE KING
WE FIGHT FOR THE QUEEN AND WE ALWAYS WIN

USA (Unknown)
warnoise

Netherlands
RABM / atmospheric black metal / depressive black metal

UK (Unknown)
warnoise

USA (California)
black metal

a 40 minute live recording of completely improvised black metal, with one person playing all the instruments SIMULTANEOUSLY. and it sounds GREAT! probably has something to do with the fact that it's Ephemeral Domignostika of MASTERY.

the guitar is played with his hands and the drums are played with his feet, + vocals.

Netherlands
raw black metal

Canada
blackened crust

blackened ska crust!!!!!!!!! for extremely cool people only

Poland
war metal

Netherlands
pagan black metal / atmospheric black metal / raw black metal

USA (New York)
RABM / raw black metal / folk black metal / unblack metal / dungeon metal

raw christian socialist black metal with lots of folky synths. very cool project

USA (North Carolina)
black thrash / skatecore

cop-killing Satanic black thrash skatecore?????? amazing

PIGS
INVERTED PIGS
INVERTED PIGS
FUCK THE POLICE

Netherlands
freak folk / raw black metal / dark ambient

oh hello

sounds like it was recorded on location by the enigmatic red person on the cover

Unknown
raw black metal

Ukraine
black metal

Unknown
raw black metal

USA (Unknown)
raw black metal

Unknown
raw atmospheric black metal

guitarless, synth-driven raw atmoshit