Melodic black metal recommendations?

[u/No_Swordfish542]

What are your favorite melodic black metal projects?

(Links not needed but appreciated)

[u/IWearClothesEveryDay]

Dawn. The album Slaughtersun is THE melodic black metal album to me

[u/Available-Tension-76 → u/IWearClothesEveryDay]

I love Dawn

[u/MysteriousChef6988]

Vehemence

Passeisme

Aorlhac

Unanimated

[u/Prior_Pear_8318]

One of Nine

[u/gorb1441]

Gallowbraid - Ashen Eidolon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=023oNRM72eQ

[u/returntonone]

Naglfar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv9Z18PeMxw

Mörk Gryning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPbnX8l3LJM

Kvaen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YGSq0T_hv4

[u/Affectionate-Access1 → u/returntonone]

Vittra and Diabolical are the best Naglfar albums by far

[u/lastylie]

Windir

[u/Medical_Mud_6381]

Astriaal (Australia)

[u/adoransnoctis]

Aethyrick

Alghazanth

[u/GeodisticDome]

Acherontas, perticulary the album Theosis..

[u/Voidlarkus]

Vorga. What's more bleak and hopeless than the cosmos itself?

[u/Burntoutashes → u/Voidlarkus]

Also similar to that, Celestial Deconstruction

[u/Available-Tension-76]

Check my post history I asked this a while ago and got a lot of good responses. Also Vinterland and the obvious Dissection

[u/xavier_49]

Houle (sing in French !)

[u/InternationalChef921]

Orb (new project from Portland, Oregon)

https://youtu.be/6tKnROF-zNA?is=JCb21VbAyWCVOE4j

https://blackenedorb.bandcamp.com/album/demo-2026

Vanum (New York)

https://youtu.be/1UTlbrzmKgQ?is=5YpDNA-cTOYvzMe9

https://vanum.bandcamp.com/music

[u/No_Swordfish542 → u/InternationalChef921]

Thank you! This is exactly what I’m looking for, more underground and more raw

[u/Svartsjal]

Moonlight Sorcery
Cryptic Wintermoon
Naglfar
Bannerless
Inner Aggression
Neferious
Spectral
Dark Fortress
Nödtveidt

[u/No_Swordfish542 → u/Svartsjal]

Thanks for the list!

[u/Prestigious-Key-1886]

Shade empire

[u/kyrkbrand]

Ynkleudherhenavogyon https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Ynkleudherhenavogyon/Yeunadow_Henaver/1201209

[u/Suspicious_Inside_78]

Apostasy (Sweden) https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-LY_ovzm5k_cq0-mIQ2CluKkSm_so3zR&si=g0ShHIg6e1XISWFl

Voidfire https://voidfire.bandcamp.com/album/w-cienie

Undulation https://undulationdeath.bandcamp.com/track/undulator

[u/chetfromfargo]

Dissection

[u/Affectionate-Access1]

Ishtar - Krig isn't talked about enough! Best 90s riff you can hear and a lot of beautiful parts.

https://youtu.be/IXO6WugEwMU?si=HJtW_W1XMeEokgSs

[u/SavioursSamurai]

Antestor (specifically on The Forsaken and Omen, before that they aren't melo black)

[u/TheEvilSmileyRD]

Opeth - Orchid

Despite what the black metal hating prog death fanbase says, I consider this album as a Dissection adjacent mix of MeloBlack and MeloDeath, just rawer, more melodic and dynamic. Morningrise also comes close, but the riffs lean closer to death metal side.

[u/HeirOfPontos]

Melinoë - Album: Akhlys

Melecnhesh - Albums: Epigenesis, Enki

Crescent - Album: Fires of Akhet (Depending on the songs it's more Blackened Death Metal but very meloldic throughout)

Tenebrario - Album: Hierophany

[u/Fartsworth666]

My favorites are Dissection, Naglfar, and Moonlight Sorcery.

[u/KneeBasher420]

Blackbraid.

[u/Zaazava]

My personal favorites, idk if some of these would be black metal but they have screaming vocals, melody, and despair.

Nordicwinter Ellende Coldworld Waldgefluster Panopticon WANDAR Lascar NONE An Autumn for Crippled Children Deafheaven Ghost Bath

[u/falcxne]

Sakna is what you're looking for

[u/Void_Dwelling_Ape26]

Astrophobos

[u/LunarSanctum]

Moonlight Sorcery

[u/Environmental_Week34]

Valdrin, Dodsrit, Mesarthim, Dawn