When it comes to black metal, I'm mostly into bands like Emperor, early Dimmu, early Borknagar, early Samael, Rotting Christ, etc. Not really into stuff like Burzum, Mayhem, etc.
Samael - Ceremony of Opposites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKpWgxCZqNM
Samael - Passage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STE8CNpjGhM <--- Not black metal, but a transition album for them into a more electronic/black-ish sound
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzeh7HFK-GM
Rotting Christ - A Dead Poem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gcg6RgWJDrQ <-- Not black metal, but boy do I love this album.
Borknagar - s/t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjFqjsnVUUs <--- About as grim and frostbitten as I go...and that album cover embodies black metal.
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblåst https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUDo1kGbniE <-- Little known fact, but that awesome piano bit at the beginning was totally plagiarized.
And I love the shit out of Blackened Death metal:
Dissection - The Somberlain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlAcZjv9lno
Dissection - Storm of the Light's Bane https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOGFXD7Z9WE
Naglfar - Vittra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUiS2YzFS70
Naglfar - Diabolical https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmNYbbmgdbI
Zyklon - World ov Worms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56mNeRF0YBI&list=PL_6zMxOLQGxBBMUiRSAZoy_KMBab8Fcxb
And a little death metal:
Hypocrisy - Virus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw_af-SxtH8&list=PL8C00C8C50E91355E
Bloodbath - Nightmares Made Flesh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njB4CDHElUQ <--Featuring the vocalist from Hypocrisy
Bloodbath - Breeding Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E4BUhwHRUU <--Featuring the vocalist from Opeth
Zyklon - Aeon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oZr8ai1Nzo <--the band pretty much dropped any of their "blackened" sound on this one.
