Great thread, btw...
AGALLOCH (Portland, OR band mixing black metal, neo-folk, Pink Floyd and more)
SODOM
DESTRUCTION
KREATOR-Flag of Hate, Pleasure To Kill
CORONER-Death Cult demo, RIP
BURZUM
ANAGNORISIS (
www.myspace.com/Anagnorisis ) (my friends' band)
MAYHEM-De Mysteriis is the best one
AMON AMARTH (Swedish viking metal)
ENSLAVED (Below The Lights, and Isa are my favorites)
BATHORY-Under The Sign of the Black Mark (their best black metal album)
-Hammerheart (the birth of viking metal)
IMMORTAL
DARKTHRONE
SATYRICON-Nemesis Divina
CRADLE OF FILTH-Vempire, -Dusk and her Embrace
BEHEMOTH-Demigod
MARDUK-the new one's real good
DESASTER (old school black metal from Germany, alive since the 80s)
MEGIDDO-(Canadian lo fi old school black metal, great stuff)
WARHAMMER-The Doom Messiah (total HELLHAMMER worship)
BERGTHRON (German folk metal)
NOKTURNAL MORTUM (Ukrainian folk metal)
DISSECTION-Storm of the light's bane
EXCRUCIATION-Anno Domini (excellent 80s Swiss band, like CELTIC FROST)
DOMINANCE-Anthems of ancient splendor (Italian blackened death)
ESTUARY OF CALAMITY/ ESTUARY
INCANTATION-Onward to Golgatha
ORPHANED LAND-Mabool (Israeli metal)
HELLHAMMER-Satanic Rites demo
SWALLOW THE SUN (Finnish doom)
CANDLEMASS (Swedish doom legends)
ENTOMBED-Left hand path, Clandestine
UNANIMATED (Swedish melodic death from early 90s)
DISMEMBER
PITCHSHIFTER-Industrial (Industrial metal)
FALKENBACH (German viking metal)
BETHLEHEM (really unique German dark metal)
EMPEROR-In The Nightside Eclipse
CARPATHIAN FOREST-Black Shining Leather (Sado-Masochistic black metal)
NILE
OPETH
MINDROT
...I'll try to add more later