Metal Hammer Says These Are the 40 Best Black Metal Albums Ever

Metal Hammer have released their list of The 40 Best Black Metal Albums Ever. It’s okay, other than including multiple albums that aren’t black metal. I stopped taking it seriously when I spotted Burzum. Not because Varg Vikernes is a douche. Because Varg Vikernes is a douche who makes horrible music.

Check out the full list below (via The PRP). Read explanations for their various choices here.

• Venom – Black Metal
• Hellhamer – Apocalyptic Raids
• Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion
• Sodom – Obsessed by Cruelty
• KAT – Metal and Hell
• Sepultura – Morbid Visions
• Vulcano – Bloody Vengeance
• Sarcófago – I.N.R.I.
• Bathory – Under the Sign of the Black Mark
• Tormentor – Anno Domini
• Blasphemy – Fallen Angel of Doom…
• Master’s Hammer – Ritual
• Darkthrone – A Blaze in the Northern Sky
• Samael – Blood Ritual
• Emperor/Enslaved – Empero/Hordanes Land
• Beherit – Drawing Down the Moon
• Immortal – Pure Holocaust
• Impaled Nazarene – Ugra-Karma
• Mystifier – Göetia
• Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
• Vlad Tepes/Belkètre – March to the Black Holocaust
• Dissection – Storm of the Light’s Bane
• Burzum – Filosofem
• Mysticum – In the Streams of Inferno
• Rotting Christ – Non Serviam
• Absu – The Sun of Tiphareth
• Ulver – Bergtatt – Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler
• Satyricon – Nemesis Divina
• Gorgoroth – Antichrist
• Arcturus – Las Masquerade Infernale
• Weakling – Dead as Dreams
• Windir – 1184
• Forgotten Tomb – Springtime Depression
• Watain – Casus Luciferi
• Taake – Hordalands Doedskvad
• Evilfeast – Funeral Sorcery
• Blacklodge – Solarkult
• Negura Bunget – Om
• Marduk – Rom 5:12
• Deathspell Omega –  Fas – Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum