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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Avant-garde black metal pioneers from Vienna, Austria, active since 1998 and signed to Napalm Records. Their albums A Death Gate Cycle and Trance Of An Unholy Union push black metal into experimental territory, blending unconventional song structures with atmospheric intensity.
Based in Tampere, this avant-garde black metal project has been a fixture of Finland's underground since 2023. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Hertz Kankarok is a avant-garde gothic metal band from Acireale (Catania), Italy, formed in 2015. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic metal layered with emotional depth.
Hevvn is a avant-garde black/death metal band from Kharkiv, Ukraine, formed in 2022. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Hteththemeth is a avant-garde metal band from Brașov, Romania, formed in 2014. They push metal into experimental, boundary-crossing territory.
Hybrid is a avant-garde/technical death metal, mathcore band from Madrid, Spain, active since 1996 and pushing death metal through precision-engineered technical complexity. The project channels intricate musicianship and compositional ambition.
Avant-garde black metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2023. Their experimental approach pushes black metal into unconventional, boundary-defying territory from the Rhine metropolis.
I Proélefsi is a Chilean one-person black metal project by a musician credited as M., who handles all instruments, orchestral arrangements, programming, artwork, recording, mixing, and mastering. The project blends instrumental atmospheric and avant-garde black metal with dark ambient influences drawn from bands such as Emperor, Setherial, Abigor, and Limbonic Art, and released its self-titled debut EP on July 4, 2025 — a five-track conceptual work tracing a journey from emptiness through strength and contemplation toward liberation.
If Nothing Is is a avant-garde metal act from Trondheim, Norway, active since 2015 and pushing metal into unconventional, boundary-defying territory. The project challenges genre conventions through experimental compositions.
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