No, this isn't another stupid survey topic where you can name what's in your CD player now and pretend it's exceptional. This is a list of -- according to one metal think tank -- the best art produced by underground death metal and black metal genres. Feel free to bitch, but we're not including your friend's CD-R band or that grindcore-with-a-flute failure you purchased last week. Each album in this listing is available for download at the links below.

BEST OF BLACK METAL

1. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
2. Immortal - Pure Holocaust
3. Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
4. Darkthrone - Transylvanian Hunger
5. Graveland - The Celtic Winter
6. Bathory - Blood, Fire, Death
7. Ildjarn - Det Frysende Nordariket
8. Summoning - Dol Guldur
9. Gorgoroth - Antichrist
10. Beherit - Electric Doom Synthesis
11. Enslaved - Vikinglgr Veldi
12. Havohej - Dethrone the Son of God
13. Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
14. Sacramentum - Far Away From the Sun
15. Mutiilation - Remains of a Dead, Ruined, Cursed Soul

Best of Black Metal MP3s

BEST OF DEATH METAL

1. Massacra - Final Holocaust
2. Deicide - Legion
3. Morbid Angel - Blessed Are the Sick
4. Therion - Beyond Sanctorum
5. Sepultura - Morbid Visions
6. Incantation - Onward to Golgotha
7. Morpheus Descends - Ritual of Infinity
8. Necrophobic - The Nocturnal Silence
9. Obituary - Cause of Death
10. Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
11. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
12. Dismember - Like an Ever-Flowing Stream
13. Amorphis - The Karelian Isthmus
14. At the Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours
15. Demilich - Nespithe
16. Asphyx - The Rack

Best of Death Metal MP3s

I own all but two of those Black Metal albums, Ildjarn/Beherit. However, I'm lacking on most of the Death Metal list.
How come you guys havn't done a list for Thrash/Grind/Doom??

No PYREXIA - Sermon of Mockery?

8 out of the 15 most important BM bands from Norway? The only BEHERIT entry one of their non-BM releases? Give me a break.

Also, what's the point of putting 82-02 if you're too much of a wimp to even acknowledge anything before 87 (BM)/85 (DM)?!?!?!

No Autopsy, WTF!

Hey guys, remember if Info Queer does not agree it MUST not be true!!!

You left out Blasphemy, Angel Corpse, Impaled Nazarene, Necromantia, The Black, Aborym, Tormentor, Sarcofago, Rotting Christ, Samael, Craft, Destroyer 666, Entombed, Grave, etc

Looks like some of you forgot to read the leading paragraph

BornSoVile, there will be separate lists for those genres when we have enough bands reviewed to represent them. The doom list might be very short though... and most people will not recognize the names on the grindlist.

CNV said:

Yes, deliberately, although we have Varathron which has Rotting Christ members.

infoterror said:

Not at all. My objection is with that paragraph, in fact, as I don't acknowledge the existence of any so-called "think tank" in which actual thought is clearly absent.

Oh, and you didn't actually list VARATHRON, dumbass. Not that the logic of shared members has any relevance anyway. That would make your selection of both BURZUM and MAYHEM's DMDS redundant, no?

I don't see Death up there. I like that Gorgoroth is up there though. I love Antichrist.

"according to one metal think tank " haha that is too funny


PS - The name truly does fit that site ...When I think of you or that site I really do think of ANUS

Yeah, where the fuck is Death?!?! At least a mention of Scream Bloody Gore, or Leprosy for christs sake.

ENTOMBED - Left Hand Path needs to be there, AUTOPSY, GRAVE, UNLEASHED, etc.

No Hellhammer?

WTF

i think Det Som En Gang Var is a better Burzum choice. A Blaze in the Northern Sky a better Darkthrone choice.

Entombed, Carcass, Grave, Death, Dissection, Hypocrisy

AUTOPSY_666 said:


Again, System of the Animal puts that shit to shame. 100 times more intense.

No Dissection either. Rubbish.

DEATH METAL (in no particular order)

Repulsion-Horrified
Death-Back From the Dead
Cannibal Corpse-Tomb of the Mutilated
Napalm Death-From Enslavement to Obliteration
Napalm Death-Utopia Banished
Carcass-Symphonies of Sickness
Terrorizer-World Downfall
Bolt Thrower-Realm of Chaos
Deicide-Deicide
Brutal Truth-Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
Nunslaughter-Hell's Unholy Fire
Morbid Angel-Covenant
Macabre-Gloom
Fear of God-As Statues Fell
Hellhammer-Apocalyptic Raids

Josh_Martin said:



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swamplorddvm said:

One of the best, and least-mentioned, black metal albums of the canon...

Josh_Martin said:

I'd consider all the above to be grindcore, sorry...

given the style of other DM cds you listed, I'm surprised Pestilence - Consuming Impulse didnt make the list.

BlackoutRick said:


they're a melodic heavy metal band! the only pure black metal shit they did was maybe unhallowed/soul reaper.

infoterror said:

They could go either way. Close enough for me.
Although Bolt Thrower, Carcass, and Barney era Napalm Death are total death metal.

BornSoVile said:

I'd call them thrash but there's some black metal elements.

infoterror said:


You missed some bands in that list and u didnt even mention any Thrash Metal bands.Im to tired right now(rough week at work) to list the bands that should be in this list.

Did infoterror make the list? Where is Repulsion?

fuck lists.

you guys need to drop more acid.

seriously, what the fuck.

INFOTERROR IS A NICE BOY
NOT AN AIDS RIDDEN PANTYWASTE LIKE THE REST OF YOU
THANKS FOR THE ATHEIST

pisscup said:

BornSoVile said:

I like to think of them and COF as Iron Maiden's successors.

Sacramentum is better than Dissection, anyway.