iTunes Top 40 Black Death Metal Songs Chart

The Top Black Death Metal Songs on iTunes This Week

The iTunes Top 40 Black Death Metal Songs Chart is your weekly window into the world of black death metal — the most extreme and uncompromising corner of heavy metal — intense, technically demanding, and fiercely independent. Updated every week, this chart ranks the top 40 black death metal singles on iTunes, giving you a real-time snapshot of what’s resonating most with fans of the genre right now.

The genre has been shaped by visionaries like Mayhem, Darkthrone, Death, Morbid Angel, and Cannibal Corpse who built the underground extreme metal scene that inspires generations of devoted fans, whose work defines what black death metal can sound and feel like. Whether the genre has centuries of tradition behind it or only emerged in recent decades, the artists on this chart are its current standard-bearers.

Discover what black death metal sounds like today by exploring the full iTunes Top 40 Black Death Metal Songs Chart, updated fresh this week, in the chart below.

Chart updated this week on: 2026-03-14

1.
Nocturnal Womb song art
Nocturnal Womb
Blackbraid
March 6, 2026

2.
Bleed song art
Bleed
Meshuggah
March 7, 2008

3.
F.F.W.A.S. (feat. Chris Collier) song art
F.F.W.A.S. (feat. Chris Collier)
PeelingFlesh
September 8, 2023

4.
Aeons of Oblivion (feat. Adam Warren) song art
Aeons of Oblivion (feat. Adam Warren)
Distant
June 11, 2021

5.
Attrition song art
Attrition
Immolation

6.
In Shadows, In Light song art
In Shadows, In Light
Melechesh

7.
Architects Of The New Weave song art
Architects Of The New Weave
Evergrey

8.
Satanic Chaos Legions song art
Satanic Chaos Legions
Nunslaughter

9.
Poison Icon song art
Poison Icon
Temple of Void
March 6, 2026

10.
Inis Mona song art
Inis Mona
Eluveitie
February 15, 2008

11.
Architects Of The New Weave song art
Architects Of The New Weave
Evergrey

12.
Celestial Bloodlust song art
Celestial Bloodlust
Blackbraid
March 6, 2026

13.
I Am Time song art
I Am Time
Green Carnation

14.
Make A Move song art
Make A Move
PeelingFlesh
September 8, 2023

15.
Slanias Song song art
Slanias Song
Eluveitie
February 15, 2008

16.
Flattening of Emotions song art
Flattening of Emotions
Death
October 22, 1991

17.
Suicide Machine song art
Suicide Machine
Death
October 22, 1991

18.
Exodus song art
Exodus
Brand of Sacrifice
November 9, 2022

19.
Demon King song art
Demon King
Brand of Sacrifice
December 9, 2020

20.
Earth Scar song art
Earth Scar
Decapitated
June 16, 2017

21.
Shaman song art
Shaman
Amorphis
April 30, 2004

22.
Rogue song art
Rogue
Jinjer
September 10, 2024

23.
Protonemesis song art
Protonemesis
Extermination Dismemberment
November 9, 2021

24.
Blood Brothers song art
Blood Brothers
Malevolent Creation
May 23, 1995

25.
In Cold Blood song art
In Cold Blood
Malevolent Creation
June 24, 1997

26.
Blood of the Zombie song art
Blood of the Zombie
Six Feet Under
October 2, 2020

27.
Enslaved song art
Enslaved
Malevolent Creation
May 23, 1995

28.
Infernal Desire song art
Infernal Desire
Malevolent Creation
May 23, 1995

29.
Living in Fear song art
Living in Fear
Malevolent Creation
May 23, 1995

30.
Alliance or War song art
Alliance or War
Malevolent Creation
May 23, 1995

31.
Eternal song art
Eternal
Malevolent Creation
May 23, 1995

32.
Tasteful Agony song art
Tasteful Agony
Malevolent Creation
May 23, 1995

33.
Hideous Reprisal song art
Hideous Reprisal
Malevolent Creation
May 23, 1995

34.
Unearthly song art
Unearthly
Malevolent Creation
May 23, 1995

35.
To Kill song art
To Kill
Malevolent Creation
May 23, 1995

36.
Gathered Under the Horns song art
Gathered Under the Horns
Urgehal
January 1, 2008

37.
Shovelhead song art
Shovelhead
Exhumed
February 20, 2026

38.
The Cry song art
The Cry
Demilich
February 8, 1993

39.
And You'll Remain... (In Pieces of Nothingness) song art
And You'll Remain... (In Pieces of Nothingness)
Demilich
February 8, 1993

40.
I Am a Viking (Yngwie J. Malmsteen Cover) song art
I Am a Viking (Yngwie J. Malmsteen Cover)
Minenwerfer
November 26, 2021

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