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The Blackest Metal Tourney

Taking a page out of Friday13th book. Same idea as his prog/psych tourneys. You nominate an album with under 20 ratings and give a little description of why you think the album rules. 16 nominations will be accepted and then the matchups begin. If you nominate an album for the tourney make sure you're ready to be in for the long haul and actually listen to each album that gets nominated and vote in the rounds. Even if you don't nominate an album you are free to join in the listening and voting. Questions and nominations can be posted in the comments :)
1Svartidaudi
Flesh Cathedral

(SCREAM!) Easily my favourite of the Icelandic trio (of which only Misthyrming really seems to have gained any attention on here). Flesh Cathedral features four intricate pieces that start where DsO left off and add their own sense of dark melody and absolutely hellish vocals. Stream here: https://daemonworship.bandcamp.com/album/flesh-cathedral
2Threnos
By Blood and By Earth

(Emester) Was pretty much the very starting point of the Cascadian Black Metal sound. Stream: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLawwo_EFSpyLBE8WvwxjXJpXh0ee1JvlK
3Addaura
...And The Lamps Expire

(YakNips) cause it has a killer atmosphere with sick drumming where the ride is like like ch chchch chch and the vocals are like ahhhHhhhHHHHHH its fucking great. Stream : https://addaura.bandcamp.com/album/and-the-lamps-expire
4Csejthe
Reminiscence

(Choccy) A fun and brief record that provides stimulating production, particularly with how the vocals are mixed, and concept that's not often found in BM. Stream: http://records.eisenton.de/album/r-miniscence
5Grimoire
À La Lumière des Cendres

(yourgodisinferior) À La Lumière des Cendres is an album that will immerse you in it's atmospheric aesthetics. It displays aggression but only in the context of beauty and to contrast their dreamy soundscapes. I would hesitate to label it "blackgaze". It is an atmospheric black metal album with significant post metal overtones. Stream : https://grimoire.bandcamp.com/album/la-lumi-re-des-cendres
6Troll
Drep de Kristne

(linguist2011) A brilliant, bouncy black metal album with subtle ambient/keyboard-led interludes and which also reminds me of early Finntroll. The transition from ambiance/symphonic parts to black metal-inspired sounds are in my opinion seamless, and the whole thing is just a fun experience. Stream : https://officialtroll.bandcamp.com/album/drep-de-kristne
7Sabbat (JPN)
The Dwelling

(Valkyrion) First wave style album that fuses everything from classic thrash to early black, doom and some acoustics in a hour-long single song that covers more ground than most black metal bands even dream to cover in their entire careers Stream : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5Nbf7_gx0U
8Black Cilice
Summoning The Night

(MoosechriS) as its raw and noisy as fuck and as atmospheric as they come. Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcxwrea0pp4
9Irrwisch
Irrwisch

(Hyperion1001) Mournful atmospheric black metal from the Netherlands with an organic production job and great vocals. Nothing groundbreaking but a perfect example of what it is. If you're looking for something to sate you while Drudkh keeps putting out terrible albums, this might help. In the words of Riffoclock, "nothing original but it gets the job done. somber but not gimmicky, and melodic without getting too cheesy". That's high praise. Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDc2sZzJvWE
10Infernal War
Terrorfront

(SpiritCrusher2) raw, brutal black/death album featuring intense blast beats, hateful, venomous vocals and whirlwind riffing. Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSlUgQBMr10
11Zuriaake
Afterimage of Autumn

(hal1ax) Gorgeous and dreary atmospheric black metal from China. This band uniquely and seamlessly incorporates traditional oriental styles of music into this depressive surrealistic wonderland of an album. Stream: https://pestproductions.bandcamp.com/album/afterimage-of-autumn
12Drawn
A New World?

(Hawks) Psychedelic/experimental bm from Norway. Similar to early In the Woods... and Solefald. Not a typical bm album, but has elements of pure bm along with a lot of clean sections. Includes clean and harsh vocals throughout. Stream: https://drawn-no.bandcamp.com/album/a-new-world
13Dornenreich
Her Von Welken Nächten

(porcupinetheater) Opener Eigenwach enters with sinister whispering and slowly adds strings and chimes, only to explode in pummeling riffs a few seconds later, balanced out once more by the reintroduction of orchestral strings. But symphonic black metal this is not. Dornenreich eventually dove head first into folk black metal (and pure folk), but this album melds myriad influences into something bleak and desperate. It is an album that straddles the line between black metal's main two points of departure - evil, and mournful, to the point that the two sensations seem to pull against one another - resulting in an album of refreshing uniqueness. Stream: https://dornenreich.bandcamp.com/album/her-von-welken-n-chten
14Utstott
Hjorungavagr

(Gameofmetal) Epic black metal in the vein of the mighty Summoning and Caladan Brood. The execution doesn't really put much of a unique spin on the style by the aforementioned bands, but it's still filled with epic crescendos and ambitious lyrical themes. The nordic/viking theme has been done to death, but does it really ever get old anyway? There's plenty of hypnotic tremolos and epic melodies to please any fan of epic black metal. Stream: https://utstott.bandcamp.com/
15Flames of Hell
Fire and Steel

(OvDeath) Seminal first wave black metal from Iceland that sounds like Hellhammer if they continued their own sound before Celtic Frost. Unique and amazing vocals, some of the best riffs in the genre, and a wonderful lo-fi crackle permeates the recording. Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGHSHUj3IsU
16Revenge
Victory.Intolerance.Mastery

(oltnabrick) Barbaric war/black metal from a band that knows no limits. Very loud and awesome. I like it a lot.
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJeb-26_1EU
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