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Watertown, Massachusetts black metal project. The numerical name strips away any pretense of mythology, leaving only raw, anonymous extremity from the Boston suburbs.
Black metal project of unknown origin. The devil's number meets liberation in a name that pairs Satanic imagery with political aspiration.
An orthodox black metal band from Rio de Janeiro whose members perform anonymously under the collective name 7 Peles, staging rituals with robes, candles, and altars. The band has released three albums — O Primeiro Evangelho do 7 Peles (2019), O Segundo Evangelho do 7 Peles (2020), and O Terceiro Evangelho do 7 Peles (2022) — built around Luciferian and Gnostic theology. Their reach extended internationally when Mayhem guitarist Charles Ghul Hedger and vocalist Attila Csihar contributed to their recordings.
Frigid Black Metal / Industrial from Weslaco.
Ánima Gélida is a black metal solo project by Buenos Aires-based musician Berenice Keher, who writes, records, and produces everything independently in her home studio. The project spans depressive, raw, and atmospheric black metal, with releases including Lumiere (2019), Simbelmyne-Entranced by Death (2020), Mordred (2022), and the 2023 album Luminaron.
Ánimas Defunctorum is a black metal one-man project from Medellín, Colombia, formed in 2020 and released through Odio Eterno Producciones. The project explores a dark lyrical universe of abyss, madness, grief, suicide, and nocturnal despair rooted in the raw black metal tradition. Material is available through the band's Bandcamp page and on social media under the handle @odioeterno_producciones.
Ásmegin is a folk, black, and Viking metal band from Jevnaker, Norway, formed in 1998, whose name translates from Old Norse as "Might of the Æsir." Their debut album Hin Vordende Sod & Sø (2003), released on Napalm Records, established them as one of the more ambitious acts in the Norse folk metal tradition, blending black metal aggression with traditional folk melodies, violin, and dual clean and harsh vocals. A second album, Arv, followed in 2008. Lyrics are composed primarily in Norwegian and Old Norse, rooting the band firmly in Scandinavian literary and mythological tradition.
Æolian is a melodic death metal band founded in Mallorca, Spain in 2016, featuring members with prior experience in the Balearic underground metal scene. Their debut album Silent Witness (2018) introduced an approach blending Gothenburg-influenced melodic death with threads of black metal and folk, and their follow-up The Negationist (2020) on Black Lion Records deepened that template while turning its lyrical focus entirely to environmental destruction and humanity's damage to the natural world. The band has drawn comparisons to Swedish melodic death progenitors while developing its own environmentally-conscious thematic identity. They signed to Black Lion Records ahead of The Negationist's release.
Ìsinkú are a black metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, formed in 2020. The band — comprising Adriano Sabino and Breno Xavier on guitars, Heloísa Saldanha on bass, Anízio Souza on drums, and JJ on vocals — released their debut album Damnatio Memoriae in January 2020. Their sound blends dissonant and melodic elements within the black metal framework, drawing on the histories and cultures of the Brazilian people as lyrical subject matter.
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