The best 3 black metal albums

[Podgie]

Some people may consider this controversial, but there wouldn't be one Dimmu album in my top 50 black metal albums!

Just 50? I think a hundred (maybe more) is a better number.

Okay well, there wouldn't be one Dimmu album in my top 100 black metal albums!

Actually, they're not that bad. I don't want to come accross harsh.. I just believe there are many, many better black metal bands out there.

[Podgie]

I think I prefer the list mortuus posted above.

De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, Under the Sign of the Black Mark and In the Nightside Eclipse are all classic black metal records. I think In the Nightside Eclipse was the album which got me into black metal..

[Podgie]

If you're interested in doom influenced black metal I'd recommend checking out Bethlehem, Forgotten Tomb and Barathrum. Might be worth you checking out Gallhammer too, though I don't really like them

[Danhod]

I'll take 'black metal' in it's broadest sense:

Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Gorgoroth - Under The Sign of Hell (As much as I love Destroyer )
Profanatica - Profanatitas De Domonatia ‎

Havohej - Kembatinan Premaster almost made it, but it's more black 'noise' than metal.

This

[Lychfowel]

At the risk of having replied before with three entirely different suggestions...

TAAKE Hordalands Doedskvad
DISSECTION Storm of the Light's Bane
EMPEROR In the Nightside Eclipse

.. but there at probably at least thirty other eligible albums for this brutally short list