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Baptism
Finnish band
1
Antaeus
musical group
2
Satanic Warmaster
Finnish band
3
Les Légions Noires
collective of French avant-garde black metal artists
4
Krieg
American black metal band
5
Barathrum
Finnish band
6
Necrophobic
Swedish death metal band
7
Acheron
band that plays black/death metal
8
Behexen
band
9
Thorns
band
10
Blasphemy
band
11
Marduk
Swedish black metal band
12
Dissection
black/death metal and later melodic death metal band
13
Troll
Norwegian band
14
Gehenna
Norwegian black metal band
15
Arvas
16
Sabbat
band
17
Archgoat
Finnish blackened death metal band
18
Ragnarok
Norwegian black metal band
19
Armagedda
20
Dark Funeral
Swedish black metal band
21
Moonblood
band
22
Mordred
band
23
Sadist
Italian death metal band
24
Venom
English thrash metal band
25
Beherit
Finnish band
26
Urgehal
Norwegian black metal band
27
Immortal
Norwegian black metal band
28
Tsjuder
Norwegian black metal band
29
Dawn of Relic
Finnish black metal band
30
Tapio Wilska
Finnish singer
31
Legion of the Damned
thrash metal/death metal band
32
Setherial
33
Dødheimsgard
Norwegian extreme metal band
34
Samoth
Norwegian musician
35
Hate Forest
Ukrainian black metal band
36
Enthroned
band
37
Witchery
Swedish thrash/speed metal band
38
Darkthrone
Norwegian black metal band
39
Bathory
Swedish metal band
40
Dark Fortress
German black metal band
41
Lux Occulta
Polish band
42
Peter Tägtgren
multi-talented musician in death metal; producer
43
Hellhammer
Swiss band
44
Bestial Mockery
swedish band
45
Clandestine Blaze
Finnish one-man black metal band
46
Deströyer 666
Australian extreme metal band
47
Watain
Swedish black metal band
48
Salem
Israeli extreme metal band
49
Samael
Swiss heavy metal band
50
Darkwoods My Betrothed
Finnish band
51
Arakain
Czech musical group; metal band
52
Tura Satana
band
53
Heathen
American thrash metal band
54
Vesperian Sorrow
American symphonic black metal band
55
Satanic Slaughter
Swedish band
56
Hades Almighty
Norwegian band
57
Hortor
58
Primordial
Irish extreme metal band
59
Gorgoroth
Norwegian black metal band
60
Abruptum
Swedish band
61
Massacre
American death metal band
62
Jungle Rot
American band
63
Death SS
Italian heavy metal band
64
Mortician
death metal/deathgrind band
65
Shape of Despair
Finnish doom metal band
66
Alcest
French shoegazing, post-metal band
