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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Arzhang channels melodic black metal from İzmir since 2022. Named after the legendary painted book of the prophet Mani in Persian tradition, they bring Zoroastrian-Manichaean cultural heritage to melodic black metal from Turkey.
Black metal project of unknown origin whose 2018 single Hymnal pairs Greek philosophical virtue with religious musical form. The name — meaning excellence or moral virtue — adds unusual ethical weight to black metal.
Athens' As High as Honor craft experimental raw black metal that pushes against conventional boundaries while maintaining the genre's primitive intensity. Since 2017, they've explored the tension between lo-fi rawness and avant-garde experimentation.
As Light Dies is one of Madrid's most adventurous extreme metal acts, fusing black metal ferocity with gothic atmosphere and avant-garde intelligence since 1999. Albums like "A Step Through the Reflection" and "The Love Album - Volume I" demonstrate a band that refuses categorization, creating something entirely unique within Spain's metal landscape.
As Stormclouds Gather is a black metal band from Aschaffenburg, Germany, founded in 1996, with releases including Darkest Temptations and Beyond the Gates of Sorrow. With nearly three decades of activity, the band stands as one of the longer-running black metal acts in the Lower Franconia region of Bavaria.
Athens, Georgia black metal project with an astonishing eleven releases since 2023. Titles like Fuck This Torture and Crown of Nothing pair raw emotional honesty with prolific output, building a massive catalog of unfiltered black metal from the Classic City's underground.
Asacris channels melodic black metal from Saransk, the capital of Mordovia, since 2020. From this Finno-Ugric republic city in the Volga region, they bring melodic refinement to black metal's harsh framework.
Asael is a symphonic black and thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2020, combining orchestral grandeur with the speed and aggression of black and thrash metal. The band merges symphonic ambition with extreme metal intensity from Germany's capital city.
Sacramento black metal act named controversially, channeling provocative intent into raw, unfiltered extremity from California's capital city.
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