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Avant-garde industrial/post-black metal trio from Nancy, active since 2016, blending black metal with jazz, acid-jazz, and breakcore electronics. Their album Religare fuses Asian cultural influences with sounds inspired by Igorrr, Miles Davis, and Deafheaven, featuring organic and electronic instrumentation in equal measure.
Bvrial ov Cristvs is a black metal band from Belém, Pará, Brazil, formed in 2020. The band's music draws on themes of Quimbanda, occultism, and nature, situating their sound within the tradition of Brazilian underground black metal. The project was later renamed Duldra in 2023, continuing under a new identity.
Danish melodic death/black/thrash metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 2010. They weave together three extreme metal styles with patient, methodical precision.
Death/black/thrash metal band from Tarbes in the French Pyrenees, formed in 2019. They deliver a volatile blend of extreme metal subgenres, merging the ferocity of black and death metal with thrash-driven momentum.
The Hague-based melodic black metal project active in the underground, tempering raw aggression with sweeping arrangements and harmonized guitar leads. Their approach balances the genre's inherent hostility with moments of dark grandeur.
Bergen-based black/thrash metal act formed in 2004, delivering high-velocity aggression that melds Norwegian black metal's icy fury with thrash metal's riff-driven attack. Their energetic approach channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a distinctly Scandinavian filter.
Southampton-based melodic black metal project active since 2013, tempering raw aggression with sweeping arrangements and harmonized guitar leads. Their approach balances the genre's inherent hostility with moments of dark grandeur.
Spanish black metal band from Ciudad Real, formed in 2023. They deliver demonic black metal from the La Mancha plains.
Death metal outfit from Bergen, formed in 2023. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
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