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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Ammophila channels depressive black metal from Zvolen in central Slovakia since 2017. Named after the sand wasp genus, their entomological identity drives compositions of burrowing despair from this Hron Valley town.
Liberty, Missouri black metal and grindcore project. Military arsenal imagery from the Kansas City suburbs.
Originally formed in Zaragoza in 2000, Amnion explored atmospheric black metal themes of darkness and desolation across a career that eventually led to their transformation into Cryptic Wanderings. Their legacy lives on through the successor project, which took its name from Amnion's sole album.
Athens' Amnis Nihili channel the existential void through black metal compositions of bleak intensity, their Latin name ('river of nothing') encapsulating their nihilistic philosophical outlook. Active since 2011, they explore themes of emptiness and dissolution.
Amokoma is a black metal project from Wiesbaden, Germany, formed in 2024, emerging as a fresh voice in the Hessian black metal underground. The project channels the genre's characteristic hostility and atmospheric darkness.
Tampa death metal institution active since 1998, amassing a dozen releases that span the full spectrum of Scandinavian-influenced extremity. From the epic narratives of Jomsviking to the Norse mythology of Deceiver of the Gods, they bring a melodic death metal sensibility honed in Florida's legendary extreme metal proving ground.
Amon Rudh crafts melodic black metal from Yaroslavl on the upper Volga since 2024. Named after the lonely hill in Tolkien's Silmarillion, they bring Middle-earth geography to melodic black metal from one of Russia's Golden Ring cities.
Among the Lights creates post-black metal with shoegaze elements from an undisclosed Polish location since 2023. Their luminous name guides compositions that bathe black metal's darkness in shimmering, ethereal light.
Washington black metal project. Nocturnal atmosphere from the Pacific Northwest.
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