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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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A California black metal band active in 2001 whose short discography includes two early demos before disbanding.
Spanish black/death metal band from Lugo in Galicia, formed in 2012. They forge prophetic black/death metal from the ancient Roman-walled city of northwestern Spain.
Spanish black/doom metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2012. They wield a dark, sword-bearing blend of black and doom metal from the Catalan capital.
Phoenix black metal act Barbaric Hatred channels themes of barbarism, war, and strength through a raw, uncompromising sound, contributing to a Darkthrone tribute compilation through Plague Demon Records in 2021.
A New Hampshire atmospheric black metal project, Barbarous Winds pursues the genre's most immersive and expansive tendencies, crafting vast, windswept soundscapes from a remote corner of the American underground.
German black metal band formed in 2018. They deliver ferocious black metal with a primitive, untamed energy.
German black metal band from Offenbach am Main, formed in 2025. They represent the newest wave of German black metal emerging from the Hessian underground.
Named after the mystical object in Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, Baltimore's Barbelith has been exploring consciousness, astral travel, and introspection through post-black metal since 2011.
German black/death metal band from Leipzig, formed in 2025. They forge a hostile union of black and death metal from one of eastern Germany's most vibrant metal cities.
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