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Atmospheric black metal band from Rouen, France, formed in 2020. They craft vast, immersive atmospheres within a black metal framework from the Norman capital.
Cold Burial is an atmospheric black metal project from the greater São Paulo metropolitan area of Brazil, listed on Metal Archives with a formation date in the São Bernardo do Campo area. The band is an independent act operating within the Brazilian atmospheric and depressive black metal underground, with music available on their Bandcamp page. They are part of a broader wave of Brazilian atmospheric black metal acts active in the 2020s.
Cold Forest is a dungeon synth and atmospheric black metal project from São Paulo, Brazil, active from 2013. The project released albums including "A Journey Through Cosmic Infinity" and "Misantrópica Jornada Obscura" in 2013, blending dark ambient and drone textures with black metal atmosphere, and later explored Tolkien-inspired themes with releases such as "In the Land of Mordor."
Atmospheric black metal act from Postojna, the karst cave city of Slovenia, active since 2007. Coldhand channels the subterranean darkness of the Karst region into expansive, atmospheric black metal.
Progressive atmospheric black metal project from Obninsk, a science city near Moscow, formed in 2020. Colorful Shadows blends contemplative progressive structures with black metal atmospherics.
Atmospheric black metal project from the UK, active since 2012. They craft vast, immersive atmospheres within a black metal framework.
Atmospheric black metal project from Rivne in northwestern Ukraine, active since 2015. Colotyphus delivers expansive, atmospheric black metal from the Volyn region.
Chapel Hill's Conqueror Wyrm conjure atmospheric black metal saturated in Southern Gothic bleakness, wrapping tremolo-driven cold fury in sweeping, desolate soundscapes from the Carolina woodlands.
Atmospheric black metal project from Finland, formed in 2016. They create vast, cosmic-themed atmospheres within a raw black metal framework.
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