The following albums have been given our All-Time Classic award. This includes perennial favourites that have withstood the test of time, career highlights, historically important, influential, distinguished, or otherwise noteworthy albums in the evolution of Black Metal, along with the occasional hidden gem and a few modern classics.

503 albums hold the All-Time Classic award
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Reviews for Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
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86% 4.3 star rating
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Reviews for In the Woods... - Heart of the Ages
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85% 4.3 star rating
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Reviews for Mütiilation - Vampires of Black Imperial Blood
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84% 4.2 star rating
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Reviews for Isengard - Høstmørke
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84% 4.2 star rating
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Reviews for Graveland - Thousand Swords
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83% 4.2 star rating
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Reviews for Mortuary Drape - All the Witches Dance
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82% 4.1 star rating
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Reviews for Summoning - Minas Morgul
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82% 4.1 star rating
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Reviews for Ildjarn - Ildjarn
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72% 3.6 star rating
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Reviews for Usurper - Diabolosis
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Reviews for Marduk - Fuck Me Jesus
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Reviews for Satyricon - Nemesis Divina

At first, when I was just starting to get into the world of Extreme Metal, I listened to Nemesis Divina but there was a detail, I didn't like it in any way... I was so wrong, too much!! Some time ...

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98% 4.9 star rating
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Reviews for Burzum - Filosofem
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95% 4.8 star rating
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Reviews for Aura Noir - Black Thrash Attack
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95% 4.8 star rating
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Reviews for Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta I (Fathers of the Icy Age)
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95% 4.8 star rating
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Reviews for Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her Embrace
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95% 4.8 star rating
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Reviews for Infernö (NOR) - Utter Hell

Even though the idea of mixing the badass thrashy riffs with the more obscure sounds existed since the 80s, with bands such as Sabbat, it wasn't until the mid 1990s where the term "Black/Thrash" ...

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95% 4.8 star rating
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Reviews for Judas Iscariot - Thy Dying Light
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94% 4.7 star rating
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Reviews for Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
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94% 4.7 star rating
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Reviews for Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
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94% 4.7 star rating
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Reviews for Setherial - Nord...

By 1996 black metal had taken over in ScandanaviA orway's influence on bands sound was spreading fast. Swedish bands like Marduk, Sacramentum, Vinterland, and of course Dissection were carving ...

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93% 4.7 star rating
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Reviews for Sabbat - The Dwelling
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93% 4.7 star rating
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Reviews for Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst
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93% 4.7 star rating
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Reviews for Rotting Christ - Triarchy of the Lost Lovers
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92% 4.6 star rating
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Reviews for Mysticum - In the Streams of Inferno
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92% 4.6 star rating
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503 albums hold the All-Time Classic award
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