「ベスト・ブラック・メタル・アルバム 40選」を英Metal Hammerが発表

＜80's Black Metal＞

Venom / Black Metal (Neat Records, 1982)
Hellhammer / Apocalyptic Raids (Noise Records, 1984)
Celtic Frost / To Mega Therion (Noise, 1985)
Sodom / Obsessed By Cruelty (Metal Blade, 1986)
KAT / Metal And Hell (Ambush Records, 1986)
Sepultura / Morbid Visions (Cogumelo Records, 1986)
Vulcano / Bloody Vengeance (Rock Brigade Records, 1986)
Sarcofago / I.N.R.I. (Cogumelo Records, 1987)
Bathory / Under The Sign Of The Black Mark (Under One Flag, 1987)
Tormentor / Anno Domini (self release, 1989)

＜90's Black Metal＞

Blasphemy / Fallen Angel Of Doom… (Wild Rags, 1990)
Master’s Hammer / Ritual (Monitor, 1991)
Darkthrone / A Blaze In The Northern Sky (Peaceville Records, 1992)
Samael / Blood Ritual (Century Media, 1992)
Emperor/Enslaved / Emperor/Hordanes Land (Candlelight Records, 1993)
Beherit / Drawing Down The Moon (Spinefarm, 1993)
Immortal / Pure Holocaust (Osmose Productions, 1993)
Impaled Nazarene / Ugra-Karma (Osmose Productions, 1993)
Mystifier / Goetia (Osmose Productions, 1993)
Mayhem / De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (Deathlike Silence, 1994)
Vlad Tepes/ Belketre / March To The Black Holocaust (Embassy Productions, 1995)
Dissection / Storm Of The Light’s Bane (Nuclear Blast, 1995)
Burzum / Filosofem (Misanthropy Records, 1996)
Mysticum / In The Streams Of Inferno (Full Moon Productions, 1996)
Rotting Christ / Non Serviam (Unisound, 1994)
Absu / The Sun Of Tiphareth (Osmose Productions, 1995)
Ulver / Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler (Head Not Found, 1995)
Satyricon / Nemesis Divina (Moonfog Productions, 1996)
Gorgoroth / Antichrist (Malicious Records, 1996)
Arcturus / La Masquerade Infernale (Misanthropy Records, 1997)

＜2000's Black Metal＞

Weakling / Dead As Dreams (tUMULt, 2000)
Windir / 1184 (Head Not Found, 2001)
Forgotten Tomb / Springtime Depression (Selbstmord Services, 2002)
Watain / Casus Luciferi (Drakkar Productions, 2003)
Taake / Hordalands Doedskvad (Dark Essence Records, 2005)
Evilfeast / Funeral Sorcery (Funeral Sound Productions, 2005)
Blacklodge / Solarkult (End All Life Productions, 2006)
Negura Bunget / Om (Code666 Records, 2006)
Marduk / Rom 5:12 (Blooddawn Productions, 2007)
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum (Norma Evangelium Diaboli, 2007)