Best Black Metal Subgenres

I'd call it Norwegian Black Metal or 2nd Wave Black.
Also, Varg is a pure legend

Great list!
Accurate descriptions and good enough to tempt newbies into trying the genre!

Carach Angren
Dimmu Borgir
Shade Empire

Truest black metal

Yes, this exists.

-Xasthur
-Silencer
-Make a Change... Kill Yourself
-Shining

They just talk about Polotics Mythology and Paganism. There are some insane band like Peste Noire, Nokturnal Mortum and Inferum.

A mixture of show-gaze and black metal (its more of a subgenre that steams from atmospheric black metal).

Bands like Agalloch and Alcest.

Many of the popular bands are French.

*shoe gaze, it's a mixture of shoe gaze and black metal, listen to mbv you poser

Believe it or not, it's real: Lifelover, Psychonaut 4.
A lot of people refer to those two as depressive bm but they sound nothing like Trist or Make a Change Kill Yourself.
I've seen more and more people refering to these two as alternative bm.

Black metal that's way faster and way more chaotic. Also known as "War Metal" or "War Black Metal". Could be considered the BM equivalent of Brutal Death Metal.

Leper from Canada, they also add a bit of ska to the mix.

To the other comment: Blackened Grind is not a fusion of grindcore and black metal, that'd be BLACKGRIND. Blackened grind is grindcore with a bit of black metal. Knelt Rote IS Blackgrind.

Fusion of Grindcore and Black Metal. Knelt Rote's last two albums fit the style.

Crust punk with a bit of black metal: Iskra from Canada, they created the style.

Fusion of crust punk and black metal. 50/50. Not to be confused with blackened crust punk, which is mainly crust punk with a touch of black metal.
Young And In The Way is the perfect black crust band.