ALL-TIME FAVOURITE NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL ALBUMS

Some recent discussions among the lunatics' metal community in Twitter easily led to narrow down my all-time favourite Norway black metal albums. So I'm throwing them here in order to leave trace for the upcoming generations.

Two lists below - 1) all time top 10 in particular order and 2) top 25 list in no particular order.

Being into BM since 1994, means that these albums are mostly the Norway classics from the 90s. Honestly this second wave really gave me a lot and after it there haven't been so much great efforts coming. Just all dissolved into hundreds of subgenres and influences, loosing that so obscure underground feeling, the eternity and majesty. 

Of course I can list excellent BM albums from the present, which still keep the flame and remind of the golden era. Nothing is the same though.

ALL-TIME TOP 10 NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL ALBUMS

1. Dimmu Borgir - For All Tid

So atmospheric, so majestic, so grandeur. Listen to this at dying sunset, watching the tops of the snowy mountains and the drowned into eternity pinewoods...

Starting right from the beginning with grieving Det Nye Riket and continuing till the end.  

Infinite. Eternal. 

Nothing can compare to this feeling.

2. Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast

The continuation...

3. Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant

Yes, I'm Dimmu Borgir fan of their 94-97 era. These three albums really mean a lot to me. I witnessed them and they have been with me through a lot of lifestages and situations. They still bring me goosebumps. 

Eternal.

Yes, this is the last good thing Dimmu Borgir did. IMO. 

4. Satyricon - The Shadowthrone

I love Satyricon early periods and their latest releases. Not too much into their most commercial stuff. 

The Shadowthrone is dark, atmospheric, epic, carrying the extraterrestrial majestic northern spirit from the 90s.
I am spirit. I am stone. And I am immortal.

5. Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss

The very first true black metal album I bought. In the summer of 1994. It was so different to all I'd been listening till then.

Three crushing black metal tracks and one stunning instrumental to gaze the infinite majestic winter nightsky and weep. We are just dust.

6. Darkthrone - A Blaze In The Northern Sky

Among the first black metal records, released in the distant 1992. This album is a benchmark. 

7. Burzum - Det Som Engang Var

One word - klassik

8. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

So underground, so black. Only flames of the dying candles...

9. Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse

I got into Emperor with the Emperor's EP, buying it first in 1994. I'm the Black Wizards instantly got me. When I bought The Nightside Eclipse, I felt it somehow it had lost (me because of) the lack of underground feeling. Still, this album is a benchmark. Atmospheric, majestic, full of black metal anthems. 

10. Immortal - Battles In The North

Two things: Circling Above In Time Before Time and Blashyrkh (Mighty Raven Dark). 

Period.

LISTED: ALL-TIME TOP 25 NORWEGIAN BLACK METAL ALBUMS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER

1	Dimmu Borgir	For All Tid
2	Dimmu Borgir	Stormblast
3	Dimmu Borgir	Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
4	Satyricon	Shadowthrone
5	Burzum	Hvis lyset tar oss
6	Burzum	Det som engang var
7	Darkthrone	A Blaze in the Northern Sky
8	Darkthrone	Under a funeral moon
9	Darkthrone	Transylvanian Hunger
10	Darkthrone	Arctic Thunder
11	Immortal	Battles in the North
12	Enlaved	Vikingligr Veldi
13	Satyricon	Dark Medieval Times
14	Satyricon	Satyricon
15	Borknagar	The Olden Domain
16	The Kovenant	Animatronic
17	Arcturus	Aspera Hiems Symponia
18	Immortal	Pure Holocaust
19	Emperor	Emperor
	Emperor	The Nightside Eclipse
20	Mock	Vinterlandet
21	Burzum	Filosofem
22	Mayhem	De Mysteriis Dom Satanas
23	Covenant	Nexus Polaris
24	Old Man’s Child	Born of the flickering
25	1349	Massive Cauldron of Chaos