Hecate Enthroned get my vote.

I got into them around 94, they're from Wales (UK) and kind of got overshadowed by Cradle Of Filth. Where COF only had one good album (debut Principle...) Hecate Enthroned continually churned out some truly superior Symphonic Black Metal making me proud to be part of the UK BM scene.

I can heartily recommend their first two albums:

1995 - Upon Promethean Shores (the demo version (An Ode To A Haunted Wood) of this is better imo, can upload if someone requests)

1997 - The Slaughter Of Innocence

and more recently:

2013 - Virulent Rapture

They have other albums inbetween that took more of a Death metal sound but tbh, this thread is about stuff that deserves daily play & those 3 albums are fuckin' it!!

Hail Hecate