Underated Black Metal Albums

Nephilim Wolf

I feel that these fantastic albums are somewhat underated, and do deserve a lot more praise. They are also worth checking out for anybody who likes quite a lot of melody as well. Unfortunately most of these albums have been forgotten about which is a real shame. These are the albums that I would consider underated:

Gehenna - Seen Through The Veils of Darkness
Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
Old Man's Child - Born of The Flickering
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Opera IX - The Black Opera
Enthroned - Towards The Skullthrone Of Satan
Moonspell - Wolfheart
Lord Belial - Kiss The Goat
Old Mans Child - Ill - Natured Spiritual Invasion
Mactätus - Provenance of Cruelty
Tormentor - Anno Domni
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast
Mystic Circle - Infernal Satanic Verses
Borknagar - The Olden Domain
Immortal - Damned in Black
Gehenna - First Spell
Thy Serpent - Forests of Witchery
Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Mystic Circle - Morgenröte
Graveworm - Scourge of Malice
Gehenna - Malice
The Kovenant - In Times Before the Light
Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil made Flesh
Ragnarok - Arising Realm
Bloodthorn - Onwards into the Battle
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
Ancient - Svartalvheim

I think if anybody loves bands like Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, Enslaved, Immortal, Cradle of Filth, Bathory, Bal-Sagoth and Arcturus, they really should check out these class albums.

Lawrence1895

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

I feel that these fantastic albums are somewhat underated, and do deserve a lot more praise. They are also worth checking out for anybody who likes quite a lot of melody as well. Unfortunately most of these albums have been forgotten about which is a real shame. These are the albums that I would consider underated:

Gehenna - Seen Through The Veils of Darkness
Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
Old Man's Child - Born of The Flickering
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Opera IX - The Black Opera
Enthroned - Towards The Skullthrone Of Satan
Moonspell - Wolfheart
Lord Belial - Kiss The Goat
Old Mans Child - Ill - Natured Spiritual Invasion
Mactätus - Provenance of Cruelty
Tormentor - Anno Domni
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast
Mystic Circle - Infernal Satanic Verses
Borknagar - The Olden Domain
Immortal - Damned in Black
Gehenna - First Spell
Thy Serpent - Forests of Witchery
Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Mystic Circle - Morgenröte
Graveworm - Scourge of Malice
Gehenna - Malice
The Kovenant - In Times Before the Light
Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil made Flesh
Ragnarok - Arising Realm
Bloodthorn - Onwards into the Battle
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
Ancient - Svartalvheim

I think if anybody loves bands like Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, Enslaved, Immortal, Cradle of Filth, Bathory, Bal-Sagoth and Arcturus, they really should check out these class albums.

Thanks for mentioning Enthroned and especially Mystic Circle

But another under-rated band from Germany is Nagelfar. For me, their album 'Virus West' is one of the best Black Metal albums ever made, but they never got the credit, they deserved.

Angron

Do Moonspell qualify as Black metal? I always considered them more gothic metal..

Good list, I particularly like the CoF and Dimmu albums, with their later (and I suppose more mainstream or whatever) albums, it's easier for some people to miss those good albums entirely.

Nephilim Wolf

Denny M wrote: »

Do Moonspell qualify as Black metal? I always considered them more gothic metal..

Good list, I particularly like the CoF and Dimmu albums, with their later (and I suppose more mainstream or whatever) albums, it's easier for some people to miss those good albums entirely.

I think that 'Wolfheart' and 'Night Eternal' do almost qualify as Black Metal. Although 'Night Eternal' has a few songs that are more gothic metal based. The early Cradle and Dimmu albums are sheer class. I think that Cradle of have gone downhill a lot now, and Dimmu's 'Abrahadabra' was okay with some amazing songs, but just not enough to make me buy it though. I heard they will possibly be going back to their roots for their next album in 2013. I would love if they abandoned the whole orchestra thing and went back to the style of 'For All Tid, Stormblast, Enthrone Darkness Triumphant and Spiritual Black Dimensions'.

nacho libre

Lars1916 wrote: »

But another under-rated band from Germany is Nagelfar. For me, their album 'Virus West' is one of the best Black Metal albums ever made, but they never got the credit, they deserved.

Their first album is even better in my opinion.
Another good German black metal band is Lunar Aurora

JBnaglfar

Cheers for posting this Nephilim, there are a few albums there that I need to give a listen.

nacho libre

Two more bands that should be on the list

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKH1ByiMV88

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE6_w1L8DTE

nacho libre

Ah I forgot about the mighty Weakling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxZU-vRbvcg

Gamb!t

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

I feel that these fantastic albums are somewhat underated, and do deserve a lot more praise. They are also worth checking out for anybody who likes quite a lot of melody as well. Unfortunately most of these albums have been forgotten about which is a real shame. These are the albums that I would consider underated:

Gehenna - Seen Through The Veils of Darkness
Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid
Old Man's Child - Born of The Flickering
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Opera IX - The Black Opera
Enthroned - Towards The Skullthrone Of Satan
Moonspell - Wolfheart
Lord Belial - Kiss The Goat
Old Mans Child - Ill - Natured Spiritual Invasion
Mactätus - Provenance of Cruelty
Tormentor - Anno Domni
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast
Mystic Circle - Infernal Satanic Verses
Borknagar - The Olden Domain
Immortal - Damned in Black
Gehenna - First Spell
Thy Serpent - Forests of Witchery
Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Mystic Circle - Morgenröte
Graveworm - Scourge of Malice
Gehenna - Malice
The Kovenant - In Times Before the Light
Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil made Flesh
Ragnarok - Arising Realm
Bloodthorn - Onwards into the Battle
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
Ancient - Svartalvheim

I think if anybody loves bands like Dimmu Borgir, Emperor, Enslaved, Immortal, Cradle of Filth, Bathory, Bal-Sagoth and Arcturus, they really should check out these class albums.

Never considered Arcturus,Moonspell,Borknagars albums under rated especially Satyricon,that album is a classic.I would agree with the others on your list though.

GrizzlyMan

Two that spring to Mind

GrizzlyMan

Also Limbonic Art - in abhorrence dementia :

Has to be the best black metal Intro hands down! Fu*king Epic!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX73HGIVf8Y