Best Black Metal Bands

759 bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
451	Opera IX 1988, Italy Symphonic Black Metal, Gothic Metal	The Call of the Wood (1995) #6132 The Black Opera: Symphoniae Mysteriorum in Laudem Tenebrarum (2000) Maleventum (2002)
452	Lorn 2002, Italy Black Metal	The Path to the Black Infinity (2004) Arrayed Claws (2017) [EP] Subconscious Metamorphosis (2013)
453	Von Goat United States Black Metal	Disappear (2012) #1759 Septic Illumination (2010)
454	Old Forest 1998, United Kingdom Black Metal	Sutwyke (2023) Black Forests of Eternal Doom (2019) Graveside (2024)
455	Raise Hell 1995, Sweden Black Metal, Thrash Metal	Wicked Is My Game (2002) City of the Damned (2006) Not Dead Yet (2000)
456	Skáphe 2014, United States Black Metal	Skáphe³ (2020) Kosmískur hryllingur (2019) Skáphe (2014)
457	Inquinamentum 2007, United Kingdom Depressive Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal	Lost/Risen (2015) [EP] Void (2015) #6775 Lustrum (2012)
458	Wiegedood 2014, Belgium Atmospheric Black Metal	There's Always Blood at the End of the Road (2022) De doden hebben het goed II (2017) De doden hebben het goed (2015)
459	Epäihminen 2004, Finland Ambient, Black Metal	Epäihminen IV (2015) VII (2017) V (2017)
460	Falgar Puerto Rico Black Metal, Neofolk	Lejanía (2014) Viento y fango (2015) La dama del alba (2013)
461	Caveman Cult United States War Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal	Savage War Is Destiny (2016) Rituals of Savagery (2014) [Demo] Supremacía Primordial (2018) [EP]
462	Bewitched 1995, Sweden Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Power Metal	Pentagram Prayer (1997) Diabolical Desecration (1996) At the Gates of Hell (1999)
463	Astarte 1997, Greece Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Quod Superius Sicut Inferius (2002) Doomed Dark Years (1998) #6972 Demonized (2007)
464	Agathodaimon 1995, Germany Symphonic Black Metal, Gothic Metal	Phoenix (2009) Blacken the Angel (1998) #6466 Serpent's Embrace (2004)
465	Woods of Ypres 2002, Canada Melodic Black Metal, Doom Metal	Woods IV: the Green Album (2009) #6990 Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth (2004) Against the Seasons: Cold Winter Songs from the Dead Summer Heat (2002) [EP]
466	Nekroholocaust 1987, United States Black Metal, Death Metal	In Memories of Fire (2005) #1907 Necrophagia (1987) [EP] Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (2019) [EP]
467	Fleurety 1991, Norway Black Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Progressive Metal	Min tid skal komme (1995) #3741 Black snow (1993) [Demo] Last-Minute Lies (1999) [EP]
468	Darkwoods My Betrothed 1994, Finland Black Metal	Angel of Carnage Unleashed (2021) Witch Hunts (1998) #6689 Dark Aureoles Gathering (1994) [Demo]
469	Sorhin 1993, Sweden Black Metal	Apokalypsens Ängel (2000) #5057 I Det Glimrande Mörkrets Djup (1997) #6698 Arte De Occulta (1996) [Split]
470	Mechina 2004, United States Symphonic Metal, Industrial Metal	Andromeda (2011) [Single] As Embers Turn to Dust (2017) Progenitor (2016) #2187
471	Liturgy 2005, United States Avant-garde Metal, Black Metal	H.A.Q.Q. (2019) #6629 Renihilation (2009) Aesthethica (2011) #8999
472	Astral Winter 2008, Australia Melodic Black Metal	Perdition (2013) #5102 Winter Enthroned (2011) #6024 Illustrations of Death (2009) [Demo]
473	Сивый Яр 2006, Russia Pagan Black Metal	Поминальные холсты (2015) Из тьмы вымерших деревень (2014) Как Прежде Плыли Зори (The Dawns Were Drifting As Before) (2013)
474	Serpents Athirst 2011, Sri Lanka Black Metal	Heralding Ceremonial Mass Obliteration (2015) [EP] #2049 Prevail (2011) [Split] Prevail (2012) [Demo]
475	Tetragrammacide 2012, India Black Metal, Death Metal, War Metal, Noise	Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur'an (2023) #2461 Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix (2017) #4761 Typhonian Wormholes: Indecipherable Anti-Structural Formulæ (2015) [EP]
476	Dödsrit 2017, Sweden Black Metal, Crust Punk	Spirit Crusher (2018) Mortal Coil (2021) Nocturnal Will (2024)
477	Apati Sweden Black Metal	Morgondagen Inställd I Brist På Intresse MMXVIII (2018) Morgondagen Inställd I Brist På Intresse (2010) Eufori (2009) #8398
478	Nocte Obducta 1995, Germany Avant-garde Black Metal	Umbriel (Das Schweigen zwischen den Sternen) (2013) Nektar - Teil 1: Zwölf Monde, eine Hand voll Träume (2004) Nektar - Teil 2: Seen, Flüsse, Tagebücher (2005)
479	葬尸湖 1998, China Atmospheric Black Metal, Depressive Black Metal	奕秋 / Afterimage of Autumn (2007) #4703 深庭 \| Resentment in the Ancient Courtyard (2019) [EP] Autuman of Sad Ode / Siming of Loulan (2005) [Split]
480	Goatmoon 2002, Finland Black Metal, Pagan Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal	What once was... ...Shall be again (2023) Death Before Dishonour (2004) #7698 Godless North / Goatmoon (2013) [Split]
481	Grand Belial's Key 1992, United States Black Metal	Mocking the Philanthropist (1997) #4796 Castrate the Redeemer (2001) [Compilation] Goat of a Thousand Young (1992) [Demo]
482	Falls of Rauros 2005, United States Atmospheric Black Metal, Folk Metal	Vigilance Perennial (2017) The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood (2011) #7999 Hail Wind and Hewn Oak (2008)
483	Varathron 1988, Greece Black Metal	Untrodden Corridors of Hades (2014) His Majesty at the Swamp (1993) #4080 The Crimson Temple (2023)
484	Battle Dagorath 2002, International Atmospheric Black Metal, Ambient	Abyss Horizons (2020) Cursed Storm of Ages (2013) Ancient Wraith (2011)
485	Draugnim 1999, Finland Pagan Black Metal	Verum Malum (2024) #5561 Horizons Low (2010) Northwind's Ire (2008)
486	Earth and Pillars Italy Atmospheric Black Metal	Earth II (2019) Earth I (2014) #6771 Pillars I (2016)
487	Nihil Domination 2003, Ecuador Black Metal, Death Metal	Sado Perverser Goat Insulter (2010) #3015 Sudamerican Worship to Sathanas (2010) [Compilation] Baphometic Goat of Thermonuclear War (2012) [Split]
488	Prosternatur International Black Metal	Abyssus Abyssum Invocat (2016) #2506 Secretum Secretorum (2018) [Split] Mortuus et Sepultus (2020)
489	Acathexis 2016, International Black Metal	Acathexis (2018) Immerse (2024) #4327 Torment Is Flesh (2018) [Split]
490	Faidra 2019, Sweden Atmospheric Black Metal	Dies Irae (2025) [EP] Militant : Penitent : Triumphant (2023) Six Voices Inside (2020) #7164
491	Amystery 2001, Germany Black Metal	All Hail the Cult (2010) Extermination, Followed by Cryptic Silence (2007) #6691 Grim Satanic Blessing (2008)
492	Krohm United States Black Metal	The Haunting Presence (2007) #4543 Slayer of Lost Martyrs/Crown of the Ancients (2005) [Compilation] A World Through Dead Eyes (2004) #9198
493	Frostmoon Eclipse 1994, Italy Black Metal	Dead and Forever Gone (2005) Another Face of Hell (2007) The End Stands Silent (2011)
494	Nocturnal Breed 1996, Norway Thrash Metal, Black Metal	Aggressor (1997) The Tools of the Trade (2000) Fields of Rot (2007)
495	Tyrant Japan Symphonic Black Metal	Under the Dark Mystic Sky (1997) Legend (2002) #5070 Grimoires (2005)
496	Nocturnal Blood United States Black Metal, Death Metal	Devastated Graves - The Morbid Celebration (2010) #2951 Nocturnal Crucifixions (2009) [EP] Invocation of Spirits (2010) [EP]
497	Godkiller Monaco Electronic Metal, Black Metal	The Rebirth of the Middle Ages (1996) [EP] #3587 Deliverance (2000) Ad Majorem Satanae Gloriam (1994) [Demo]
498	Gratzug 2011, Germany Black Metal	V: Meyster (2016) #4257 Mondtore (2012) #8307 Pestabtei (2011) [Demo]
499	Deadlife 2010, Sweden Depressive Black Metal	Worthless Existence (2014) [EP] Porphyria (2016) Slutskedet (2013)
500	Nattverd 2010, Norway Black Metal	I Helvetes Forakt (2023) Tidloes naadesloes (2025) Styggdom (2020)

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