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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Philadelphia black metal project translating grief into sound since 2024. With two EPs in quick succession — Qualia Of Sorrow and Death In Spring — they channel the genre's emotional extremes through a distinctly literary sensibility, their Latin name meaning 'love of sorrow.'
Amorak channels black metal from Guimarães — the birthplace of Portugal — since 2012. From the city where the Portuguese nation was founded in the 12th century, they practice black metal rooted in the country's deepest historical identity.
Amorcus is a medieval black metal duo from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, featuring Feliciano 'Sylius' C.G. on vocals and programming and Angeus 'Rattet' Wolf on guitars. Their release Medieval Supremacy fuses raw nineties black metal with lo-fi dungeon synth, creating an atmospheric blend of medieval themes and extreme metal aggression.
Amorphia merges death and black metal from Zaporizhia since 2018. Their formless name drives compositions that dissolve fixed structures through the combined acid of two extreme genres.
Amorphus channels melodic death and black metal from Verona since 2023, their name suggesting formlessness that belies the structured melodicism of their compositions. From the city of Romeo and Juliet, they craft music of dark romantic intensity.
Amort is a black metal band from Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2007 and still active. Based in the industrial ABC Paulista region just south of São Paulo, the band draws on Satanic and blasphemous lyrical themes common to Brazilian black metal, operating independently as part of the country's underground extreme metal scene.
Paterson, New Jersey black metal entity whose 2020 single Tonitrua — Latin for 'thunder' — delivers atmospheric ferocity from one of the Garden State's grittiest cities. A project that channels urban decay into frigid black metal.
Amorth is a Brazilian bestial black metal duo formed on August 19, 2023, consisting of Necro Anticristo on vocals and drums and Lord Bloodshed on guitar. Operating in the war metal and bestial black metal tradition, the band released the EP "War Against Christ" in July 2024 and a split with Necrovomit 666 titled "Desecrating the Nazarene" the same year, channeling raw, chaotic anti-Christian extremity.
Indiana black metal project maintaining a steady stream of singles and releases since 2020. Six releases in a few years demonstrate a prolific work ethic, building a catalog of raw, uncompromising black metal from the American heartland.
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