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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Archierophant channels atmospheric black metal with doom elements from London since 2020, their priestly-hierophant name evoking sacred mysteries revealed through extreme music. Their approach brings ritualistic weight to the English capital's underground.
Archipelagos channels black metal from Brittany since 2013, their maritime name evoking the scattered islands off the Breton coast. Their sound draws from the Celtic-Atlantic character of France's most culturally distinct region.
Saunderstown, Rhode Island black metal project whose 2024 EP ...AND SKULLS strips the genre down to its essential components: atmosphere, aggression, and the macabre. D&D-inspired nomenclature from the quiet Rhode Island seaside.
Archont are an Austrian black/death metal project who take their name from the Gnostic demiurgic rulers — a conceptual angle that filters into dark, esoteric lyrical themes and a sound that blends the tremolo-driven dissonance of black metal with the brutish density of death metal. Their music is deliberately confrontational and theologically provocative.
Archotype creates melodic black and death metal from Cologne since 2011, their Jungian-derived name suggesting the primordial patterns underlying their compositions. Nearly fifteen years on the Rhine have refined their approach to melodic extremity.
Archurahl creates black metal and ambient from İzmir since 2022. Possibly related to Archura, their expanded name drives atmospheric compositions from the same Aegean city.
Archvile channels black metal from Norwich since 2020, their Doom-game-inspired name referencing one of the franchise's most feared enemies. Their East Anglian origins feed a distinctly modern approach to the genre.
Archvile King channels melodic black metal with thrash elements from Nantes since 2020, their video-game-inspired name referencing the fearsome Doom enemy. Their genre-blending approach creates a distinctly modern take on the French black metal tradition.
Archæic crafts melodic black metal from Bursa since 2024. Their deliberately archaic spelling drives compositions that reach back to ancient forms from this former Ottoman capital at the foot of Mount Uludağ.
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