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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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Aldorfrea channels black metal from Lancashire since 2021, their Old English-sounding name evoking ancient Anglo-Saxon darkness. Their northwest English origins feed a sound rooted in the region's pre-Norman heritage.
Kingsport, Tennessee solo black metal project weaving melancholic atmosphere with tremolo-picked passages. The music draws on Appalachian isolation, blending raw production with surprisingly tender melodic sensibility.
A black metal band from Ghent operating as an underground independent act, with a presence on Bandcamp and Facebook. Little documentation is publicly available about their discography beyond their releases on the platform, keeping them firmly within the underground tier of the Belgian black metal scene.
Temple, Texas depressive black metal act operating at the margins of the genre's most anguished extremes. A deeply underground project with minimal output but maximum emotional intensity.
Alehammer merges black metal, crust punk, and thrash metal from the West Yorkshire town of Halifax since 2014, their drinking-destruction name capturing the volatile spirit of their genre-crossing assault. Over a decade of punk-metal fury from the Pennines.
Philadelphia crust-punk-meets-black-metal-meets-thrash outfit active since 2012 with a prolific output of splits, EPs, and full-lengths. Their sound is raw, politically charged, and draws equally from Discharge and Darkthrone.
Alendalua channels atmospheric black metal from Ourense in Galicia since 2016. From this thermal-springs city in Spain's Celtic-influenced northwest, they craft black metal that draws from the region's misty, verdant landscape.
Los Angeles melodic black/death metal project blending Scandinavian-influenced tremolo work with death metal heft. Absence of Light established their template of atmospheric extremity with a melodic core.
New Hampshire black metal project. Granite State darkness channeled through atmospheric extremity.
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