Best Black Metal Bands

750 bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
451	Old Forest 1998, United Kingdom Black Metal	Sutwyke (2023) Black Forests of Eternal Doom (2019) Graveside (2024)
452	Raise Hell 1995, Sweden Black Metal, Thrash Metal	Wicked Is My Game (2002) City of the Damned (2006) Not Dead Yet (2000)
453	Skáphe 2014, United States Black Metal	Skáphe³ (2020) Kosmískur hryllingur (2019) Skáphe (2014)
454	Inquinamentum 2007, United Kingdom Depressive Black Metal, Atmospheric Black Metal	Lost/Risen (2015) [EP] Void (2015) #6665 Lustrum (2012)
455	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)
456	Epäihminen 2004, Finland Ambient, Black Metal	Epäihminen IV (2015) VII (2017) V (2017)
457	Falgar Puerto Rico Black Metal, Neofolk	Lejanía (2014) Viento y fango (2015) La dama del alba (2013)
458	Caveman Cult United States War Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal	Savage War Is Destiny (2016) Rituals of Savagery (2014) [Demo] Supremacía Primordial (2018) [EP]
459	Bewitched 1995, Sweden Black Metal, Thrash Metal, Power Metal	Pentagram Prayer (1997) Diabolical Desecration (1996) At the Gates of Hell (1999)
460	Astarte 1997, Greece Black Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Quod Superius Sicut Inferius (2002) Doomed Dark Years (1998) #6854 Demonized (2007)
461	Agathodaimon 1995, Germany Symphonic Black Metal, Gothic Metal	Phoenix (2009) Blacken the Angel (1998) #6353 Serpent's Embrace (2004)
462	Countess Netherlands Black Metal	The Revenge of the Horned One Part I (2001) Holocaust of the God Believers (2006) #8395 The Shining Swords of Hate (2000)
463	Woods of Ypres 2002, Canada Melodic Black Metal, Doom Metal	Woods IV: the Green Album (2009) #6867 Pursuit of the Sun & Allure of the Earth (2004) Against the Seasons: Cold Winter Songs from the Dead Summer Heat (2002) [EP]
464	Nekroholocaust 1987, United States Black Metal, Death Metal	In Memories of Fire (2005) #1900 Necrophagia (1987) [EP] Death of the Ball Turret Gunner (2019) [EP]
465	Fleurety 1991, Norway Black Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Progressive Metal	Min tid skal komme (1995) #4334 Black snow (1993) [Demo] Last-Minute Lies (1999) [EP]
466	Darkwoods My Betrothed 1994, Finland Black Metal	Angel of Carnage Unleashed (2021) Witch Hunts (1998) #6574 Dark Aureoles Gathering (1994) [Demo]
467	Mechina 2004, United States Symphonic Metal, Industrial Metal	Progenitor (2016) #1056 Andromeda (2011) [Single] As Embers Turn to Dust (2017)
468	Astral Winter 2008, Australia Melodic Black Metal	Perdition (2013) #5006 Winter Enthroned (2011) #5932 Illustrations of Death (2009) [Demo]
469	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)
470	Ninkharsag 2009, United Kingdom Black Metal	The Dread March of Solemn Gods (2021) #5602 The Blood of Celestial Kings (2015) Destroyed by Design (2011) [Demo]
471	Serpents Athirst 2011, Sri Lanka Black Metal	Heralding Ceremonial Mass Obliteration (2015) [EP] #2034 Prevail (2011) [Split] Prevail (2012) [Demo]
472	Tetragrammacide 2012, India Black Metal, Death Metal, War Metal, Noise	Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur'an (2023) #2438 Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix (2017) #4668 Typhonian Wormholes: Indecipherable Anti-Structural Formulæ (2015) [EP]
473	Dödsrit 2017, Sweden Black Metal, Crust Punk	Spirit Crusher (2018) Mortal Coil (2021) Nocturnal Will (2024)
474	Apati Sweden Black Metal	Morgondagen Inställd I Brist På Intresse MMXVIII (2018) Morgondagen Inställd I Brist På Intresse (2010) Eufori (2009) #8260
475	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)
476	葬尸湖 1998, China Atmospheric Black Metal, Depressive Black Metal	奕秋 / Afterimage of Autumn (2007) #4603 深庭 \| Resentment in the Ancient Courtyard (2019) [EP] Autuman of Sad Ode / Siming of Loulan (2005) [Split]
477	Goatmoon 2002, Finland Black Metal, Pagan Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal	What once was... ...Shall be again (2023) Death Before Dishonour (2004) #7561 Godless North / Goatmoon (2013) [Split]
478	Grand Belial's Key 1992, United States Black Metal	Mocking the Philanthropist (1997) #4704 Castrate the Redeemer (2001) [Compilation] Goat of a Thousand Young (1992) [Demo]
479	Falls of Rauros 2005, United States Atmospheric Black Metal, Folk Metal	Vigilance Perennial (2017) The Light That Dwells in Rotten Wood (2011) #7858 Hail Wind and Hewn Oak (2008)
480	Varathron 1988, Greece Black Metal	Untrodden Corridors of Hades (2014) His Majesty at the Swamp (1993) #4003 Patriarchs of Evil (2018)
481	Battle Dagorath 2002, International Atmospheric Black Metal, Ambient	Abyss Horizons (2020) Cursed Storm of Ages (2013) Ancient Wraith (2011)
482	Draugnim 1999, Finland Pagan Black Metal	Verum Malum (2024) #5465 Horizons Low (2010) Northwind's Ire (2008)
483	Earth and Pillars Italy Atmospheric Black Metal	Earth II (2019) Earth I (2014) #6661 Pillars I (2016)
484	Nihil Domination 2003, Ecuador Black Metal, Death Metal	Sado Perverser Goat Insulter (2010) #3552 Sudamerican Worship to Sathanas (2010) [Compilation] Baphometic Goat of Thermonuclear War (2012) [Split]
485	Prosternatur International Black Metal	Abyssus Abyssum Invocat (2016) #2482 Secretum Secretorum (2018) [Split] Mortuus et Sepultus (2020)
486	Acathexis 2016, International Black Metal	Acathexis (2018) Immerse (2024) #4240 Torment Is Flesh (2018) [Split]
487	Amystery 2001, Germany Black Metal	All Hail the Cult (2010) Extermination, Followed by Cryptic Silence (2007) #6576 Grim Satanic Blessing (2008)
488	Krohm United States Black Metal	The Haunting Presence (2007) #4461 Slayer of Lost Martyrs/Crown of the Ancients (2005) [Compilation] A World Through Dead Eyes (2004) #9050
489	Frostmoon Eclipse 1994, Italy Black Metal	Dead and Forever Gone (2005) Another Face of Hell (2007) The End Stands Silent (2011)
490	Nocturnal Breed 1996, Norway Thrash Metal, Black Metal	Aggressor (1997) The Tools of the Trade (2000) Fields of Rot (2007)
491	Tyrant Japan Symphonic Black Metal	Under the Dark Mystic Sky (1997) Legend (2002) #4973 Grimoires (2005)
492	Godkiller Monaco Electronic Metal, Black Metal	The Rebirth of the Middle Ages (1996) [EP] #3539 Deliverance (2000) Ad Majorem Satanae Gloriam (1994) [Demo]
493	Gratzug 2011, Germany Black Metal	V: Meyster (2016) #4176 Mondtore (2012) #8164 Pestabtei (2011) [Demo]
494	Deadlife 2010, Sweden Depressive Black Metal	Worthless Existence (2014) [EP] Porphyria (2016) Slutskedet (2013)
495	Ammanas 2018, Russia Atmospheric Black Metal	somewhere far beyond (2024) Solitude (2023) An Evening in Silent Peace (2024)
496	Beastcraft 2003, Norway Black Metal	Dawn of the Serpent (2006) [Compilation] Into the Burning Pit of Hell (2005) #8121 Baptised in Blood and Goatsemen (2007) #8275
497	Akerbeltz Spain Black Metal	Tabellae Defixionum (2001) #5660 A Wave of Darkness (2000) #7681 Akerbeltz / Avangh Dhür / Morbid Yell / Hellthrone (2007) [Split]
498	Profanum 1993, Poland Black Metal, Symphonic Black Metal, Dark Ambient	Profanum Aeternum - Eminence of Satanic Imperial Art (1997) #4698 Flowers of Our Black Misanthropy (1996) Musaeum Esotericum (2001)
499	Темнозорь 1996, Russia Folk Metal, Black Metal	Вольницей в просинь ночей (2005) Horizons... (2002) #5739 Ведовством крепка чёрная слава Руси (Sorcery Is Strengthening the Black Glory of Rus') (1998)
500	Avsky 2002, Sweden Black Metal	Malignant (2008) Mass Destruction (2007) #7164 Embrace armageddon (2006) [Demo]

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