Essential Albums - Black Metal

We have been running down the essential heavy metal albums over the last couple weeks and today is time for Black Metal. This list will be the most controversial as black metal is so polarizing among its fans. There are more black metal bands in the world than any other genre of music and some think the more underground and raw the better. Personally I need a little more on the production end than three guys in the forest at midnight recording with a single track tape player. Special thanks to Shamed, BrutalN00dle, thegauntlet, deathofthesun, and mattosaur for help with the list. Absu - Tara Antaeus - Cut Your Flesh and Worship Satan Aura Noir - Deep Tracts of Hell Bathory - Bathory Bathory - The Return...... Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark Bathory - Blood Fire Death Bathory - Hammerheart Beherit - Drawing Down the Moon Behexen - By the Blessing of Satan Bethlehem - Dark Metal Blasphemy - Fallen Angel of Doom Borknagar - Borknagar Carpathian Forest - Black Shining Leather Countess - Holocaust of the God Believers Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God Burzum - Det som engang var Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss Burzum - Filosofem Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice Destroyer 666 - Unchain the Wolves Dissection - Storm of the Light’s Bane Emperor - Wrath of the Tyrant Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse Enslaved - Frost Forest - Like a Blaze Above the Ashes Gorgoroth - Pentagram Gorgoroth - Under the Sign of Hell Grand Belial’s Key - Mocking the Philanthropist Graveland - Thousand Swords Graveland - Carpathian Wolves Immortal - Pure Holocaust Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness Inquisition - Into the Infernal Regions of the Ancient Cult Leviathan - Verräter Lurker of Chalice - Lurker of Chalice Marduk - Fuck Me Jesus Master's Hammer - Ritual Mayhem - Deathcrush Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas Nargaroth - Geliebte des Regens Necromantia - Scarlet Evil Witching Black Oranssi Pazuzu - Muukalainen Puhuu Ritual - The Summoning Root - Zjeveni/The Revelation Root - The Temple in the Underworld Satyricon - Nemesis Divina Satanic Warmaster - Strength & Honour Summoning - Oath Bound Summoning - Dol Guldur S.V.E.S.T. - Urfaust Taake - Nattesid Tormentor - Anno Domini Thunderbolt - Inhuman Ritual Massmurder Trelldom - Til et annet... Ulver - Bergtatt: Et eeventyr i 5 capitler Venom - Black Metal Venom - At War With Satan Von - Satanic Blood Wigrid - Hoffnungstod Windir - Arntor Xasthur - Nocturnal Poisoning 1349 - Hellfire