Metal Hammer UK ha stilato la lista di quelli che secondo la testata giornalistica inglese sono i 40 migliori album black metal di sempre. A questo indirizzo il commento album per album.
VENOM – “Black Metal“
HELLHAMER – “Apocalyptic Raids“
CELTIC FROST – “To Mega Therion“
SODOM – “Obsessed By Cruelty“
KAT – “Metal And Hell“
SEPULTURA – “Morbid Visions“
VULCANO – “Bloody Vengeance“
SARCÓFAGO – “I.N.R.I.“
BATHORY – “Under The Sign Of The Black Mark“
TORMENTOR – “Anno Domini“
BLASPHEMY – “Fallen Angel Of Doom…“
MASTER’S HAMMER – “Ritual“
DARKTHRONE – “A Blaze In The Northern Sky“
SAMAEL – “Blood Ritual“
EMPEROR/ENSLAVED – “Empero/Hordanes Land“
BEHERIT – “Drawing Down The Moon“
IMMORTAL – “Pure Holocaust“
IMPALED NAZARENE – “Ugra-Karma“
MYSTIFIER – “Göetia“
MAYHEM – “De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas“
VLAD TEPES/BELKÈTRE – “March To The Black Holocaust“
DISSECTION – “Storm Of The Light’s Bane“
BURZUM – “Filosofem“
MYSTICUM – “In The Streams Of Inferno“
ROTTING CHRIST – “Non Serviam“
ABSU – “The Sun Of Tiphareth“
ULVER – “Bergtatt – Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler“
SATYRICON – “Nemesis Divina“
GORGOROTH – “Antichrist“
ARCTURUS – “Las Masquerade Infernale“
WEAKLING – “Dead As Dreams“
WINDIR – “1184“
FORGOTTEN TOMB – “Springtime Depression“
WATAIN – “Casus Luciferi“
TAAKE – “Hordalands Doedskvad“
EVILFEAST – “Funeral Sorcery“
BLACKLODGE – “Solarkult“
NEGURA BUNGET – “Om“
MARDUK – “Rom 5:12“
DEATHSPELL OMEGA – “ Fas – Ite, Maledicti, In Ignem Aeternum“
