Watain Albums Ranked 

Say want you want about The Wild Hunt, Questy, but to me, "They Rode On" from that album is the first song from a black metal band that made me cry. It's so dark and beautiful.

Watain are amazing; they may be meat and potatoes black metal, but they're an example of meat and potatoes black metal done well. All their albums are fantastic and here would be my ranking: 7. The Wild Hunt 6. Rabid Death's Curse 5. Trident Wolf Eclipse 4. The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain 3. Casus Luciferi 2. Sworn to the Dark 1. Lawless Darkness

My favorite is actually the Agony and Ecstasy of Watain. It just clicks with me in a way the others haven't. You've also talked me into listening to Sworn to the Dark more.

I've never been let down by Watain. I know people dunk on "Wild Hunt" , I still love it

The opening of their latest album was sick

Waters of ain is such a godly good song. The live version from Opus Diaboli is amazing.

Lawless Darkness is my favourite, it's such a great album all the way through. I enjoy the Wild Hunt too but mainly for 'They Rode on', that song comes out of nowhere and is incredible. It could easily have been a bonus track, but instead very middle of the album. Still need to listen to the latest album

Love the seasonal shirt Questy!

My personal list: 1. The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain 2. The Wild Hunt 3. Trident Wolf Eclipse 4. Casus Luciferi 5. Lawless Darkness 6. Sworn to the Dark 7. Rabid Death's Curse Sworn to the Dark and all the bands above it have been ranked by extremely slim margins. Sworn to the Dark is one of my favorite albums ever, it's just that Watain's albums are *really* fucking good. This is especially true for Casus Luciferi. I LOVED that album, but Watain is just the goat for me currently. I recently changed how I listen to music (listening to albums in order as opposed to random mixes that I'm not paying attention to), and Watain is the first band I've done that for. I've realized that I really like a focus on guitar with quieter drums; hence Rabid Death's Curse being so low. The drums were too aggressive for my liking; I like intensity, not aggression. EDIT: "They Rode On" is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever listened to; it's what put The Wild Hunt above Trident Wolf Eclipse.

I like the way you rank albums now.

I was longing for that!

Rocking a Watain sweatshirt rn lol. Lawless Darkness is my favorite, have the CD, such a phenomenal album the riffs are so good.

I quiet agree with everything you said, except for The Wild Hunt, that I put quiet high in the ranking (let's say 4, behind Lawless Darkness, The Agony & Ecstasy and Swarn to the Dark). It is some different Watain for sure, but I love it though, all that beauty, and that colder wickedness ... Perfect peak when I'm not sure whether I need Pink Floyd's Animals or Marduk's Frontshwein.

Spot on. totally agree with this list. I wouldn't change a thing.

Questy have you ever thought of doing a Flotsam & Jetsam, or Overkill ranking? Those are two bands I don't feel get the spotlight the way they should and I'd love to see your opinion on their work. (Especially Overkill as I like their newer stuff best)

Lawless Darkness is my #1 for sure. Awesome album.

I got into them kinda late. My favorite is Agonies and Ecstasies which might be because it was the first one I bought and and actually listened to thoroughly

1. Lawless Darkness 2. Sworn To The Dark 3. The Agony And Ecstasy Of Watain 4. Casus Luciferi 5. Trident Wolf Eclipse 6. The Wild Hunt 7. Rabid's Death Curse

my favorite watain albums rabid death,s curse 2000 casus luciferi 2003 sworn to the dark 2007 lawless darkness 2010 the wild hunt 2013 trident wolf eclipse 2018 the agony and ecstasy of watain 2022 been a huge fan of watain since 2009 since i was 9 year little child still listening to watain 13 years later as a 22 year old young adult male black metal fan and longtime watain fan in general absolutely a black metal band i would love to see live

That Watain album that dropped last year was GNARLY!

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Fast ranking for me (and for the algorithm for u) 1. The Agony and Ecstacy of Watain (potential recency bias but it blew me away) 2. Lawless Darkness 3. The Wild Hunt 4. Trident Wolf Eclipse 5. Casus Luciferi 6. Sworn to the Dark 7. Rabid Deaths Curse They’re all 10/10 for me though

The wild hunt is amazing. It takes years to get into it. It was my least favourite but just recently I came to a conclusion that it might actually be the best one.

1. Casus Luciferi 2. The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain 3. Sworn to the Dark 4. Lawless Darkness 5. The Wild Hunt 6. Trident Wolf Eclipse

1. Sworn To The Dark 2. Lawless Darkness (this is Watains best album just prefer the songs on Sworn To The Dark individually) 3. The Agony and Ecstasy of Watain 4. Casus Luciferi (tied with TAACOW) 5. Trident Wolf Eclipse 6. The Wild Hunt 7. Rabid Death's Curse.

The wild hunt is my least favorite too. But my faves on it are the slower songs weirdly enough. Pretty much agree on top 3. Lawless Darkness is surely a masterpiece

I bought agony and ecstasy randomly in a cd store from where I'm from, I thought it was a really nice album and probably a top 50 of 2022, as for everything else... I always never gave a fuck about watain, infact when I got into Black Metal I somehow got Watain confused with Marduk (I don't know how I did confuse them to be honest)

7. The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain 6. The Wild Hunt 5. Sworn To The Dark 4. Rabid Death's Curse 3.Trident Wolf Eclipse 2. Casus Luciferi 1. Lawless Darkness

Definitely #1 lawless

No coincido en ninguna decisión de este ranking... Que puedo hacer?

1. Lawless Darkness 2. The Agony & Ecstasy of Watain 3. Sworn to the Dark 4. Casus Luciferi 5. Trident Wolf Esclipse 6. Rabid Death’s Curse 7. The Wild Hunt

1. Sworn to the Dark 2. Lawless Darkness 3. The Agony and Ecstacy of Watain 4. Trident Wolf Eclipse 5. Casus Luciferi 6. Rabid Death's Curse 7. Wild Hunt