Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Having some fun with an album vs. album showdown in the style of March Madness!
I took an aggregate list of common Top 50 Black Metal Albums, and threw in a handful of modern favorites to come up with a bracket of 64 black metal albums to go head to head in a showdown to crown one winner.
This video goes from Round 2 all the way to the championship! Round 1 was uploaded earlier this week if you missed it.
For reference, here are the 64 albums that are on this list if you want to play along at home:
Abigor - Nachthymnen
Afsky - Om undred ar
Agalloch - The mantle
Alcest - Ecailles des lune
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II
Borknagar - the Olden Domain
Burzum - Hvus Lyset Tar Oss
Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle
Can Bardd - The Last Rain
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Dawn - Slaughtersun
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Diabolical Masquerade - Ravendusk in my Heart
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness triumphant
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi
Evilfeast - Elegies of the Stellar Wind
Forefather - Steadfast
Forteresse - les hivers de notre epoque
Gallowbraid - Ashen Eidolon
Gris - Il Etatit une foret
Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi
Horn - Naturkraft
Immortal - At the heart of Winter
Inquisition - Ominious Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Kvist - For kunsten maa vi evig vike
Liminal Shroud - Visions of Collapse
Lord Belial - Enter the Moonlight Gate
Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm
Mayhem - de mysteriis dom sathanas
Mgla - Exercises in Futility
Moonsorrow - Verisakeet
Mork Gryning - Tusen ar har gatt
Nargaroth - Jahreszeiten
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
Obsequiae - Aria of vernal Tombs
Obtained Enslavement - Witchcraft
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Rotting Christ - Non Serviam
Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
Saor - Aura
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
Setherial - Nord
Shining - V Halmstad
Sorcier des glaces - self titled
Spectral Lore - III
Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime
Stormruler - Sacred Rites and Black Magick
Summoning - Stronghold
Taake - Hordlands Doedskvad
Ulver - bergtatt
Valdrin - Throne of the Lunar Soul
Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
Vehemence - Par le sang verse
Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Windir - Arntor
Winterfylleth - the Mercian Sphere
Wodensthrone - Loss
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Having some fun with an album vs. album showdown in the style of March Madness!
I took an aggregate list of common Top 50 Black Metal Albums, and threw in a handful of modern favorites to come up with a bracket of 64 black metal albums to go head to head in a showdown to crown one winner.
This video goes from Round 2 all the way to the championship! Round 1 was uploaded earlier this week if you missed it.
For reference, here are the 64 albums that are on this list if you want to play along at home:
Abigor - Nachthymnen
Afsky - Om undred ar
Agalloch - The mantle
Alcest - Ecailles des lune
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Blut Aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II
Borknagar - the Olden Domain
Burzum - Hvus Lyset Tar Oss
Caladan Brood - Echoes of Battle
Can Bardd - The Last Rain
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Dawn - Slaughtersun
Deathspell Omega - Paracletus
Diabolical Masquerade - Ravendusk in my Heart
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness triumphant
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane
Drudkh - Autumn Aurora
Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi
Evilfeast - Elegies of the Stellar Wind
Forefather - Steadfast
Forteresse - les hivers de notre epoque
Gallowbraid - Ashen Eidolon
Gris - Il Etatit une foret
Havukruunu - Kelle Surut Soi
Horn - Naturkraft
Immortal - At the heart of Winter
Inquisition - Ominious Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
Kvist - For kunsten maa vi evig vike
Liminal Shroud - Visions of Collapse
Lord Belial - Enter the Moonlight Gate
Mare Cognitum - Solar Paroxysm
Mayhem - de mysteriis dom sathanas
Mgla - Exercises in Futility
Moonsorrow - Verisakeet
Mork Gryning - Tusen ar har gatt
Nargaroth - Jahreszeiten
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
Obsequiae - Aria of vernal Tombs
Obtained Enslavement - Witchcraft
Panopticon - Autumn Eternal
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness
Rotting Christ - Non Serviam
Sacramentum - Far Away from the Sun
Saor - Aura
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
Setherial - Nord
Shining - V Halmstad
Sorcier des glaces - self titled
Spectral Lore - III
Stormkeep - Tales of Othertime
Stormruler - Sacred Rites and Black Magick
Summoning - Stronghold
Taake - Hordlands Doedskvad
Ulver - bergtatt
Valdrin - Throne of the Lunar Soul
Ved Buens Ende - Written in Waters
Vehemence - Par le sang verse
Vinterland - Welcome My Last Chapter
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Windir - Arntor
Winterfylleth - the Mercian Sphere
Wodensthrone - Loss
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
