Black Metal Albums - Page 2

Forgotten Tomb's first album, issued by Selbstmord Services in 2002. All five pieces were recorded and produced by one man alone.

Rotting Christ's seventh album, from 2002. It returns to the speed and the raw vocals of their early black metal while keeping the gothic and doom elements of the middle records.

Moonsorrow's second album, out on 26 November 2001. The title means "of strength and honour", and the record holds six pieces.

Sigh's fifth album, from 2001. It was their first for Century Media, taking the experiments of the previous record further and adding a psychedelic streak.

Borknagar's fourth album, released in 2000. It was recorded at The Abyss Studios and mixed by Peter Tagtgren.

Cradle of Filth's fourth album, issued by Music for Nations on 30 October 2000 and drawn from Clive Barker's novel Cabal.

Immortal's sixth album, issued by Osmose Productions in 2000. It is the first record with Iscariah on bass.

Immortal's fifth album, issued by Osmose Productions in 1999. It fuses black metal with thrash, and it is the turn in their course.

Cradle of Filth's third album, issued by Music for Nations in 1998. It is a concept record following the legend of Elizabeth Báthory.

Ulver's fourth album, issued by Jester Records in 1998. It is a double album setting William Blake's poem to music in full.

Dimmu Borgir's third album, issued by Nuclear Blast on 30 May 1997. It was made at Peter Tägtgren's Abyss Studio, and it is where the band broke through.

Burzum's fourth album, recorded in March 1993 and released in January 1996. It brings repetition and ambient technique into black metal.

Cradle of Filth's second studio album, from November 1996: the record that carried the band's name out of England, and a gothic black metal classic.

Satyricon's third album, issued by Moonfog Productions on 22 April 1996. The title is Latin for divine nemesis.

Dissection's second album, issued by Nuclear Blast on 17 November 1995. It is one of the earliest successful joins of black metal with the melody of Gothenburg.

Moonspell's debut, issued by Century Media in 1995. It brings the Portuguese language and the myths of its own country into gothic metal.

Burzum's third album, taped at the Grieg Hall in Bergen in September 1992 and released in April 1994. It holds four pieces.

Cradle of Filth's debut album, from February 1994, and a then-unusual welding of gothic metal to black metal.

Darkthrone's fourth album, issued by Peaceville on 17 February 1994. It was made on a four-track recorder set up in Fenriz's bedroom.

Emperor's debut, issued by Candlelight in 1994. Its orchestral keyboards made it the template for symphonic black metal.

Mayhem's debut, released in 1994. The writing began in 1987, and the record reached the public seven years later, after the suicide of its singer and the murder of its guitarist.

Satyricon's debut, recorded in August and September 1993 and issued by Moonfog Productions. It brings medieval subject matter and folk instruments into black metal.

Darkthrone's third album, issued by Peaceville on 15 February 1993. It was written with the stated intent of making a pure black metal record.

Dissection's debut, issued by No Fashion Records on 3 December 1993. It is the record on which melodic black metal was founded.

Sodom's third album, recorded at Musiclab Studios in West Berlin over March and April 1989 with Harris Johns producing. It reached number 36 on the German album chart.

Bathory's fourth album, recorded at Heavenshore Studio in Stockholm in February 1988. It is named among the earliest examples of what came to be called Viking metal.

Bathory's third album, recorded at Heavenshore Studio in Stockholm between September and November 1986, with Quorthon playing every instrument as well as singing.

Mayhem's first commercial release, recorded at Creative Studios in Kolbotn, Norway in February and March 1987 and issued by their own Posercorpse Music in an edition of 1,000 hand-numbered copies.

The debut by Brazil's Sarcófago, recorded in July 1987 at J.G. Studio in Belo Horizonte and issued by Cogumelo Records that August.

Sodom's second album, recorded at Musiclab Studios in Berlin between 2 and 22 October 1987 and produced by the band with Harris Johns.

Celtic Frost's second album, recorded between 14 and 28 September 1985 at Casablanca studio in Berlin. The gatefold sleeve carries H. R. Giger's 1977 painting Satan I.

Bathory's debut, recorded from June 1984 at Heavenshore Studio — a converted garage in Huddinge, outside Stockholm — and issued by Black Mark on 2 October 1984. It is one of the records routinely named as the first black metal album.

Celtic Frost's debut, recorded and mixed inside a single week in October 1984 at Caet Studio in West Berlin. It is the first record by the three musicians who had just dissolved Hellhammer.

Sodom's first release: a five-song EP recorded at Caet Studio in Berlin in October 1984, and one of the records counted in the first wave of black metal.