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20 BM ESSENTIALS THAT NEED MORE LOVE
1Xasthur
Telepathic With The Deceased

One of the best bm albums of all time for me and top 3 DSBM. Malefic's early stuff was full of muffled riffs, indecipherable shrieks and an atmosphere that felt like death was right around the corner. Nobody evoked the feeling of certain death like he did.
2Cerberus (USA-MA)
Unrelenting Chaos

A raw and atmospheric riff fest that will have its lofi yet melodic leads stuck in your head for days and days. This duo from Massachusetts really brings some 90s kvlt atmosphere while putting their own modern twist on things. Raw bm doesn't get much better than this.
3Moloch
Der Schein des schwärzesten Schnees

I've been whoring this album out for YEARS now and it still has only a few ratings. This feels like you're stuck in a dark forest with no hope of escaping. The horrific vocals spew at you like a deadly force of nature. The riffage is similar to the trance inducing stuff of early Burzum. Such an underrated gem.
4Hellvetic Frost
Misanthropic Devotion

Some of the coldest and hateful bm you will ever hear. Kinda similar to early Mutiilation with the vampyric themes and wailing vocals spewing lyrics about hating life and all people in it. The riffage is monotonous in the best way possible because it really draws you in. Another one that gets no attention
5I Shalt Become
Wanderings

Band really went into the shitter after this album but Wanderings is an ambient bm masterpiece. Drawn out riffs and haunting dark ambient sections with distant, echoing screams in the background. The atmosphere here feels like dwelling in a deep cave. Very unique and natural atmosphere.
6Velvet Cacoon
Genevieve

Next to nothing is known about this band despite putting out a decent amount of material. The mystery factor leans into the music with an atmosphere that feels like you're swimming in Camp Crystal Lake. The vocals are gurgled as if the vocalist is being drowned. Riffs are muffled and lofi yet that adds heavily to the puzzling story and atmosphere.
7Judas Iscariot
Distant In Solitary Night

Such a medieval torturous sounding album. The cover art really tells of the raw and primal atmosphere you'll encounter on this album. The riffs hit extremely hard yet they're simple as can be. The buzzsaw reverb makes for a medieval feeling. Some of the best vocals ever sounding as if Satan himself was calling up from Hell. One of my favs.
8Fell Voices
Untitled

A droning and noise inducing masterpiece. Another album where a lot of what's going on is muffled but thay gices it a "neverending black hole" effect and the subtle electronic bits makes it feel a tad futuristic. The vocals echo through all the noise like a ghost coming over a transmitter.
9Black Murder
Feasts

I believe this is technically a demo but you've never heard a demo dirtier than this in your life. I will admit a lot of this is way too loud and in your face but the riffs will bash your skull in, the blast beats are relentless and the vocals sound like a 700 year old zombie spewing dust and rot. The LLN guys rarely ever missed.
10Drowning the Light
Oceans of Eternity

This guy releases so much music that it's hard to keep up. I've yet to hear all of his stuff but this is my fav so far. Absolutely ghastly vocals behind a backdrop of raw/melodic buzzsaw riffage and unrelenting blasts. Most of his music is quality but this one's atmosphere is way on point.
11Anorexia Nervosa
Redemption Process

Hands down one of the best symphonic bm albums of all time. Lightning fast and melodic riffs soar over the vocals that sound like a mental patient screaming at all hours of the night. The atmosphere is perfectly thunderous and the riffage will melt your face off at all times. Evil yet uplifting at the same time.
12Cara Neir
Portals to a Better, Dead World

One of my all time favorites. This was how you mix bm and screamo without making it sound twinkly and instead making it sound apocalyptic and super dark. Riffs are chaotic and bouncing off the wall as the drums rip your nuts off and the painful vocals tear right through your soul.
13Funereal Presence
Achatius

This one is just a good damn time. Kind of sounds like these guys set out to mix ritualistic sounding bm with classic heavy metal and some thrash thrown in. Well guess what? That's what they did and it is done to absolute perfection. I feel like Judas Priest was just as much of an influence as Immortal was. Killer album all around.
14Cultes Des Ghoules
Sinister

Maybe this one isn't quiiiite as good as Henbane but man it still pulls off that sound like you're being kidnapped ny a cult that wants to drain your blood. The ambient riffs will hit you like a hammer to the head and the chanting and shrieking of the vocals will make you feel trapped deep in a dungeon.
15Necromantia
Scarlet Evil, Witching Black

One of the albums most responsible for starting the Hellenic bm scene. These guys took melodic, heavy metal inspired leads and mixed them with ghastly shrieking and monstrous blast beats and this is what came from it. A super influential band that never seems to get the shine that they deserve.
16Mystifier
The World Is So Good That Who Made It Doesn't Live

South American black/death metal has been killing it for a long time. Brazil's Mystifier really knew the recipenof blending black, death and thrash metal to make music that cults would make blood sacrifices too. Thrashy riffs blaze, blasts will rip your nipples off and the unhinged vocals will terrify your grandmother.
17Hulder
Godslastering: Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry

One of my fav current bm bands. This one woman act combines raw bm with a romantic gothic sound and hainting folk bits. Buzzsaw riffage mixed with the serene gothic passages really gives this album the vampyric sound that I absolutely love.
18Havohej
Dethrone the Son of God

Havohej is the solo project of Paul Ludney of early Incantation/Profanatica fame. This album is super off kilter, super raw and super weird. Paul experiments heavily with avant-garde and almost proggy riffs to go alongside his raw production/vocals. Kind of a mess but its the kind of mess that I can get down with.
19Lepra (USA-ME)
Devil's Blood in Her Tongue

One of my top bm albums of the 2020s so far. This band is comprised of 3 women who play a brand of gothic black metal with some of the most haunting synths you'll ever hear and a trippy post-punk influece that gives the album an "acid trip" type of feeling to it.
20Nechochwen
Kanawha Black

Band needs so much more love and this is my fav of theirs. This is up there with the best folk bm albums that I've heard. Such natural sounding production. The riffs give off the feeling of being recorded in a forest on a warm spring day. Almost a Native American vibe in the vocals with some chanting going on. The folk bits are authentic and flow perfectly with the bm parts.
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