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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Avdagata crafts melodic black and death metal from Gothenburg since 2021. Their enigmatic name drives compositions from the city that defined melodic extreme metal.
Black Hills, South Dakota black metal project with eight releases since 2023. The Latin name — 'Hail Lord of the Night' — and their location near Mount Rushmore create a striking juxtaposition of American nationalism and occult devotion through prolific atmospheric black metal.
Midwest black metal project operating from an undisclosed heartland location, channeling the region's vast emptiness into atmospheric extremity.
Ave Maria is an experimental black metal project from Germany, formed in 2011, pushing the genre's boundaries through unconventional compositions and avant-garde approaches. The project's provocative religious name creates deliberate tension with its black metal framework.
Aven practices black metal from the Occitanie region since 1995, making them one of southern France's longest-running black metal entities. Three decades of activity from this historically Occitan-speaking territory have produced a substantial body of work steeped in regional identity.
Salinas, California black metal project whose 2016 debut The Burning Chariots in the Skies channels biblical warfare imagery through atmospheric extremity from the agricultural heartland of the Central Coast.
Avern channels black metal from the Barcelona satellite cities of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and Molins de Rei since 2019. Their dual-city origins reflect the spread of extreme metal throughout the Catalan metropolitan area beyond Barcelona proper.
Avernus was a black metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, active from 1993 until their split. Emerging from the same fertile underground that produced Sarcófago and Sepultura, the band operated in the raw, uncompromising vein of Brazilian black metal during the 1990s, contributing to one of South America's most distinctive extreme metal scenes.
Black metal project of unknown origin whose 2023 EP Poetry of Leathered Wings channels bat-winged imagery through atmospheric extremity. Named after the gate referenced in their namesake's mythology — the entrance to Hell.
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