What're your favorite black metal records, regardless of the subgenre?! You can let me know down below, I'd love to hear some of yours and get some new recommendations. Let me know your thoughts of this list as well and if you agree or disagree with my picks--there isn't a wrong answer!!!!!!! But for now, cheers, rock on, stay heavy and have yourselves a fantastic rest of your day or night, depending on when you see this!!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

The Metal Tempest is like our younger sibling that is more hardcore and down with the music scene than we are. These bands should be sending guys like TMT free promotional items because this guy is literally preaching the gospel of metal to fight on through life. Thanks man I hope you're happy in life. Thanks for spreading the good word

The Mantle is tied with Alcest's Escailles De Lune as my favorite black metal-oriented album ever made. Such an incredible atmosphere that no other album that I've heard has IMO. I do need to listen to more Woods of Desolation, I remember finding them pretty solid but there's a chance I'll get into them more with repeat listens. Also I appreciate the Sadness love! My favorite Sadness record is Leave but the one you chose is really good too.

I had that song stuck in my head the last couple days it left this morning ... Now its back lmaooo good video

Some of my favorites White Ward’s Futility Report and Love Exchange Failure. I absolutely love their inclusion of saxophone and jazz sections. Panopticon’s The Rime of Memory especially the track Winter’s Ghost. I love the folk elements and atmosphere. Gaerea’s Mirage. I don’t really know why I like this one.

7:54 Toad has entered the chat. 🤣 My black metal taste is pretty basic, ITNE by Emperor is what got me into it, but I would say that some of my favorite BM albums currently are Mirage by Gaerea and Rashomon by Ibaraki.

I remember when Dark Medieval Times came out. I purchased it on CD because I didn't have a record player. The main reason I got it was because I liked the cover art. Glad I got it. I still have it somewhere. I end up getting a number of the early black metal albums. That said, I have way too many favorite albums.

Pantopticon's Autumn Eternal is one I keep going back to. Vargrav's Reign in Supreme Darkness is awesome too.

Im more into the Atmospheric/Melodic side of things The mantle - Agalloch Litourgiya - Batushka III: Trauma - Harakiri for the sky Sunbather - Deafheaven Throne of the Lunar Soul - Valdrin (Definitely recommend this one, my favorite album from last year) Bergtatt - Ulver

I don’t even like black metal that much, yet I still listen to you talk.

Great video! Really interested in a lot of these albums and some of them, I’ll definitely be giving a chance. Though, I’m surprised you don’t have Olhava’s Frozen Bloom on this list given how highly you praised it in your 2021 album video. Admittedly, that album may be far from the most innovative, complex, or forward thinking, but good god, I love it so much. But other than that, I loved this video just like all your other content. Hope life is treating you well! 👍

I don’t care what the haters and elitists have to say about this, but my favorite at least black metal-adjacent record of all time is new Bermuda by Deafheaven. Not only is it one of my favourite metal albums of all time, it’s one of my favourite album ever!

You should listen to the band Black Funeral, or at least there album Vukolak. Another good band is Immortal. Love the shirt dude.

thanks. This is partly why I follow this channel. I don't pay a lot of attention to subgenres so I don't quite know who or what to look for when trying to find new stuff or stuff I've missed. I'll have to come back to this

Great list, i had the exact same experience discovering agalloch, also im curious to know if you like any inquisition albums

I’d say since I’m particular when it comes to black metal, my personal go to band for about 2 years is BiS (Benighted in Sodom). I do recommend Reverse Baptism, Disappear Here, Death in Space, and In Hora Maledictus - Part I. All albums can be found on bandcamp. Other mentions: Fort Lauderdale, Where Waits the Greatest of All Sacrifices EP, Hybrid Parasite Evangelistica, and Plateau: The Harrowing.

You should make a video on Ronalds new song Ronnie has been quiet ever since Ronald dropped that banger!🔥🔥

In Lingua Mortua - Bellowing Sea-Racked By Tempest Satyricon - Nemesis Divina Silencer - Death Pierce Me Summoning - Stronghold my faves 4 sure

If goes for my favorite Black Metal Albums here is my list: Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times (because it was my first truly Black Metal album and band I liked to listen to) Limbonic Art - In Abraham Dementia (one of my favorite Symptoms Black Metal albums that isn't so corny like Dimmu Borgir stuff) Anorexia Nervosa - Mother Anorexia (another great Symphonic Black Metal record but I chose them because Anorexia Nervosa was my favorite French band) Moonsorrow - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta (I absolutely adore this record and band ,it is so melodic and catchy with so many folk stuff in it that i just cant but headbang every time i hear Aurinko Ja Kuu, this record proves that Black Metal can be FUN) Kroda - Cry to me, River.../Поплач мені, річко... (my favorite Record of Ukrainian Pagan Black Metal band that have a lot of folk influences in it but in more epic way) Drudkh - Autumn Aurora (my favorite album from Atmospheric Black Metal genera. Worth tocheck out if you love sounds of nature implemented to songs like sound of rain, singing of birds or wind blowing through trees deep in the forest) Sacrilegium - Wicher (Absolute classic from Polish Pagan Black Metal scene. Wicher means Gale in Polish and sound of this album is indeed a Gale of pure Pagan Darkness) Arkona - Lunaris (no, not Russian Аркона, thats a Folk Metal band. Im talking about one of the first Polish Black Metal bands. Lunaris is their 5th album, but its my favorite because of it's beautiful atmosphere and lurics that brings subject like loosing faith, melancholy, death and burial of your old self.) Ninkharsag - The Dread March of Solemn Gods (one of the most promising modern Melodic Black Metal bands that comes from UK and with this album, tgey fucking rules and gives high hopes for the future) Impaled Nazarene - Ugra Karma (this album is just pure hatered and aggression ive never heard before in my life until i stepped upon this record) Barathrum - Legions of Perkele (Very groovy Black Doom record that i like to listen from time to time) Summoning - Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame (i love all Summoning albums, and surprisingly for a long time I was considering this album the worst one from all, but after listening to it multiple times it grew on me and became one of my favorites) Bathory - The Return... (this is the album that I love till this day because it frighten me at first, intro and outro to this album gives me chills every time I hear it. Those sounds...they reminds me of upcoming evil that comes closer with every step, comming.....to take your soul) Satanic Warmaster - Aamongandr (a first I wanted put here Streangth and Honor, but I like only Raging Winter from that record, but on Aamongandr every dong is a hit for me) Heretoir - Heretoir (this german band is my favorite if goes to stuff that deals with Depression, suicide and melancholy. I don't care what Encyclopedia Metallum says, this is DSBM for me not a Post-Black) Carpathian Forest - Strange Old Brew (my favorite album full of sado-maso, leathers and Satan) Absu - Apzu (probably only American Black Metal band I like and this album)

Crazy seeing you in a Burzum shirt

SAOR MENTIONED OOOUGH love Soar, always makes me tear up, probably because I'm Scottish. Also sorry to be THAT guy but its pronounced "sooer", and you roll the r. It's the gaelic word for "to be free" To make up for that, here's some of my fav black metal records Darkthrone - Panzerfaust Ulver - Bergtatt Saor - Aura Hellripper - Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags Burzum - Filosofem None - Damp Chill of Life Xasthur - Defective Epitaph Immortal - Pure Holocaust Mutiilation - Vampires of Black Imperial Blood Këkht Aräkh - Pale Swordsman Spectral Wound - A Diabolic Thirst

holy goddamn shit. i love Sadness so much. there is something i love about every single album. i am so upset i wont be able to go to the projects first concert in chicago at the end of the month

Woods of Desolation absolutely is one of my favorites in Black Metal. All of their work is sooooooo good. My favorite of theirs is As the Stars. My Other favorites: Dissection-Storm of the Lights Bane Alcest-Ecailles De Lune Deathspell Omega-Paracletus Rotting Christ-Triarchy of the Lost Lovers Drudkh-Autumn Aurora Enslaved-In Times Moonsorrow-Kivenkantaja Nectromantia-Scarlet Evil Witching Black Negative Plane-Stained Glass Revelations Grand Belial’s Key-Judeobeast Assassination Emperor-Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk Nokturnal Mortum-Voice of Steel Abigor-Channeling the Quintessence of Satan Bathory-Blood Fire Death Ulver-Bergtatt Lord Belial-Enter the Moonlight Gate Cradle of Filth-Dusk and her Embrace Panopticon-Roads to the North Peste noire- La Sanie Dawn-SlaughterSun Odium-The Sad Realm of the Stars Summoning-Oath Bound Midnight Odyssey-Shards of Silver Fade Varathron-His Majesty at the Swamp Darkspace-Darkspace 3 Zeal and Ardor-Stranger Fruit Agalloch-The Mantle Vinterland-Welcome my last chapter

Wrath of Gaia by Wolven Ancestry should be on here

Heres my top five bm albums (not in order): Windir - Arntor (this actually my favorite bm album of all time) Sadness - i want to be there (black metal fir emo kids and i mean that in the bestvway) Panopticon - thecrime of memory (favorite album of 2023) Liturgy - HAQQ (Underated and overhated) Holyarrow - defender of the fatherland (peak epic black metal)

Can’t recommend Departure Chandelier more. They’ve been my favorite ever since I discovered Antichrist Rise To Power while surfing my recommend on Spotify lol. Their newest release Satans Soldier of Fortune is also incredible. DC is the perfect blend of raw / atmospheric BM, and also brings a strange concept to the table with the whole napoleonic black metal thing. They also tap into French history a bit, which is interesting to say the least. Honorable mention to WOE BATHER, Burzum, Ancst, Glempt, Ifernach, Gnaw Their Tongues, and Kanonenfieber.

sadness is so good!!!!

BURZUM for life🤘

Guessing you're not a fan of pure old school black metal

I think most if not all BM musicians started as teens

I am more of a death metal dude

Saor Caladan brood Uada Liturgy Ulver deafheaven panopticon agalloch white ward bathory emperor enslaved alcest summoning nechochwen windir anaal nathrakh wolves in the throne room dimmu borgir sodom oranssi pazuzu and oceans blut aus nord botanist borknagar equilibrium goatwhore ihsahn kvelertak krallice dodheimsgard paysage dhiver sepultura sigh toxic holocaust venom watain cradle of filth blackbraid gorgoroth Arcturus falkenbach also BLACK METAL🎶🎵🪕🎷

I personally can’t stand Black Metal, and even if i did, i still wouldn’t listen to it for religious reasons.

Do you own a copy of Dead as Dreams? Very valuable record, especially on vinyl.