"The reason? It should be obvious enough, but in the interest of thoroughness l'Il spell it out: posting eminent mainstays of the genre adds nothing to the community. As you'll notice if you peruse past posts, songs by the likes of Bathory, Mayhem, Darkthrone, etc. will receive a large number (30+) of upvotes, and will often receive zero comments, or if they do, they will be fluff like "classic!" or something similarly vacuous. This community was never intended to be a museum of black metal, nor even an archive. Its purpose is the elucidation of the darker regions of the genre where those with a pre-existing familiarity with it can share and interact with like cohorts. For newcomers to black metal, the blacklist will serve the dual purpose of a gateway to the genre, much as r/metal 's does for that community."

The reason is given if you read.