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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Salt Lake City atmospheric black metal project named for the Shadowy Mountains of Tolkien's First Age, Ered Wethrin conjures vast, wind-swept epics from Utah's high desert that feel genuinely ancient and mythic.
Atmospheric black metal band from Croix near Lille, France, active since 2015. They craft immersive, layered black metal from northern France.
Denver's Erraunt treats atmospheric black metal as a canvas for genuine experimentation, layering texture and dissonance over the genre's foundational frostbitten sound in ways that push toward something stranger and harder to classify. Since 2015, the project has operated at the edges of what the genre's atmosphere can contain.
Lviv-based atmospheric black metal and black metal act, active since 2016 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most resilient metal scenes, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Swedish atmospheric black metal and black metal act, active since 2016 delivering second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Rooted in the country that refined both melody and brutality, their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Atmospheric black metal project from Hayange in Lorraine, France launched in 2024. They craft contemplative black metal from the industrial northeast.
Sicily, Italy — atmospheric black metal and black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2023, they deal in frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Atmospheric black metal project from Nancy, France formed in 2022. They craft expansive, contemplative black metal from the Lorraine capital.
Straddling the line between atmospheric black metal and black metal, this Italian actfrom Urbino fuses dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2017, and atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
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