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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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One-man instrumental atmospheric black metal project from Campos in the Balearic Islands, Spain, active since 2020. Releases include Mirrors of Torture, Through the Endless, Enlightened Passage, and Winds of Melancholy.
Lafayette, Louisiana's Eternal Father wrap atmospheric black metal in the humid spiritual weight of the Deep South, a haunting combination that sets them apart from their coastal peers. Since 2011 they have been building a landscape of sky-wide, cathartic heaviness.
Denver's high-altitude desolation seeps into every note Eternal Obsession plays — their atmospheric black metal trades in vast, windswept textures and suffocating cold since 2018.
A product of the birthplace of black metal, this atmospheric black metal and black metal act channels frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Active since 2022, blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Philadelphia atmospheric black metal conjured from the dense industrial grit of the city, Ethereal Corpus weave cascading tremolo guitars and cavernous ambience into suffocating soundscapes since their 2018 formation. Their music dissolves the boundary between the physical and the spectral, dragging listeners into an unrelenting fog.
Atmospheric black/death metal band from Évora in Portugal's Alentejo region, formed in 2024. Their sound merges atmospheric black metal's expansiveness with death metal's aggression from one of Portugal's most ancient UNESCO-listed cities.
Atmospheric black metal project from Switzerland, building immersive, layered soundscapes over tremolo-driven foundations since 2013. Named after a medicinal herb, their sound carries a natural, organic quality within the atmospheric black metal tradition.
Atmospheric black metal project from France launched in 2023. They craft contemplative, layered black metal atmospheres.
Practitioners of atmospheric black metal and black metal, this Swedish outfit from Västkusten has been refining their craft since 2023. Their sound hinges on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities, delivered with iron-willed focus.
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