Artist	Song
Venom	Black Metal
from Black Metal (2009)
Mayhem	Freezing Moon
from De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (2007)
Emperor	I Am the Black Wizards
from In the Nightside Eclipse (2007)
Dissection	Where Dead Angels Lie
from Storm of the Light's Bane (Bonus Track Version) (2006)
Satyricon	Mother North
from Nemesis Divina (2006)
Immortal	Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)
from Battles In the North (2007)
Celtic Frost	Procreation (Of the Wicked)
from Morbid Tales (2009)
Enslaved	Heimdallr
from Enslaved (2009)
Gorgoroth	Possessed (By Satan)
from Antichrist - EP (2007)
1349	Sculptor of Flesh
from Hellfire (2005)
Ulver	Hymne, Pt. I
from Nattens Madrigal (2007)
Leviathan	What Fresh Hell
from Tenticals of Whorror (2004)
Wolves In the Throne Room	Cleansing
from Two Hunters (2009)
Kampfar	Hymne
from Kampfar MCD (2005)
Xasthur	Bubonic Plague
from Xasthur (2007)
Taake	Hordalands Doedskvad, Part I
from Doedskvad (2005)
Falkenbach	Where Blood Will Be Shed
from Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri (2010)
Old Man's Child	Felonies of the Christian Art
from In Defiance of Existence (2007)
Abigor	Unleashed Axe-Age
from Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom) (2004)
Abruptum	De Profundis Mors Vas Cousumet
from Evil Genius (2007)
Marduk	Still Fucking Dead
from Dark Endless (2007)
Mayhem	Pagan Fears
from De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (2007)
Dimmu Borgir	Spellbound (by the Devil)
from Enthrone Darkness (2006)
Rotting Christ	In Domine Sathana
from Genesis (2007)
Emperor	Inno A Satana
from In the Nightside Eclipse (2007)
Destroyer 666	Black City - Black Fire
from Cold Steel... for an Iron Age (2005)
Carpathian Forest	Skjend Hans Lik
from Skjend Hans Lik (2005)
Behemoth	Demigod
from Demigod (2007)
Celtic Frost	Into the Crypts of Rays
from Morbid Tales (2009)
Satyricon	nemesis Divina
from Nemesis Divina (2006)
Furze	A Life About My Sabbath
from Utd (2008)
Setherial	Mörkrets Tid
from Nord... / Hell Eternal (2011)
Borknagar	Nocturnal Vision
from The Archaic Course (2007)
Sargeist	Satanic Black Devotion
from Satanic Black Devotion (2004)
Khold	Slakterenga
from Mange Motstandere, Ingen Motstand (En Hyllest Til Vålerenga) (2009)
Nokturnal Mortum	Goat Horns
from Goat Horns (2008)
Agalloch	I Am the Wooden Doors
from The Mantle (2008)
Craft	Kill Everything
from Total Soul Rape (2005)
Belphegor	Lucifer Incestus
from Lucifer Incestus (2010)
Naglfar	The Darkest Road
from Harvest (2007)
Kult ov Azazel	An Eternity With Satan
from The World, the Flesh & the Devil (2005)
Arckanum	Kamps Tekn
from Kampen (2008)
Nifelheim	Envoy of Lucifer
from Envoy of Lucifer (2008)
Dark Funeral	The Secrets of the Black Arts
from The Secrets of the Black Arts (2007)
Keep of Kalessin	Crown of the Kings
from Armada (2006)
Lord Belial	Black Wings of Death
from Revelation (2007)
Eikenskaden	I Hear Voices But They Aren't Saying a Thing
from There Is No Light At the End of the Tunnel (2007)
Tsjuder	Lord of Swords
from Desert Northern Hell (2005)
Akercocke	Summon the Antichrist
from Antichrist (2007)
Lurker of Chalice	Spectre As Valkerie Is
from Lurker of Chalice (2005)
Negura Bunget	Cunoasterea Tacuta
from Om (2006)
Einherjer	Fimbul Winter
from Dragons of the North (2010)
Judas Iscariot	The Black Clouds Roll Under the Parapet of the Sky
from Distant In Solitary Night (2004)
Swordmaster	Wraths of Time
from Wraths of Time - EP (2006)
Mork Gryning	Neverwhere
from Mörk Gryning (Bonus Track Version) (2005)
Melechesh	Genies, Sorcerers and Mesopotamian Nights
from Djinn (2009)
Anaal Nathrakh	How the Angels Fly In (We Can Never Be Forgiven)
from When Fire Rains Down from the Sky (2009)
Blut aus Nord	The Choir of the Dead
from The Work Which Transforms God (2008)
Týr	Regin Smidur
from Eric the Red (2010)
Summoning	Lugburz
from Minas Morgul (2010)
Ludicra	Veils
from Fex Urbis Lex Orbis (2006)
Hades	Crusade of the Underworld Hordes
from The Dawn of the Dying Sun (2006)
Aborym	U.V. Impaler
from With No Human Intervention (2003)
December Wolves	Friday the 13th
from Completely Dehumanized (2009)
Korvus	Religious Torment
from In the Name of Lucifer (2007)

Comment:

Don't let corpse paint canisters, convicted murderers, and a whole lotta "hail Satan!" posturing scare you. Beyond the sordid, blood-caked history of black metal is the heaviest, richest — and, yes, darkest — form of cathartic chaos known to extreme music connoisseurs. While most black-metal songs are heavier than a one-way ticket to hell, the styles on display are as diverse as the many splintered subgenres and scenes of punk, hip-hop, and electronica. Let's see what we've got here: the slithery solos and cleaner chords of melodic black metal (Dissection, Old Man's Child, Rotting Christ), the orchestra-pit overtones of symphonic black metal (Cradle of Filth, Summoning, Emperor), the forest-channeling ambiance of folk black metal (Agalloch, Tyr, Nokturnal Mortum), and the shoegaze/synth-soaked effects of ambient black metal (Xasthur, Leviathan, Wolves In The Throne Room). All of which bring glimpses of pitch-black beauty to one of the bleakest forms of music known to man.

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