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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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An American black metal and dark ambient project whose name invokes a figure from Gnostic theology, pairing esoteric imagery with the bleak atmospheric territory shared by both genres.
Thrash metal outfit from Riga, formed in 2012. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Occupying the shadowed intersection of black metal and doom from Szentendre, active since 1999 crafts compositions that alternate between frozen blast sections and monolithic, slow-motion heaviness.
Black metal project from Hungary, emerging in 2020. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Hungarian origins.
Uncompromising death metal from Łódź, active since 2021. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Kharkiv, active since 2018. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
A raw black metal and dungeon synth project from Jonesboro, Georgia, Barksdale explores themes of nature, paganism, and anti-Christianity within the stripped-down aesthetic of the underground black metal tradition.
Barrabás is a black metal band from Assis, São Paulo, whose music is built around the cosmic horror mythology of H.P. Lovecraft. Their 2013 full-length The Arrival of Yog-Sothoth, released on Nyarlathotep Records with members Kadax Azuhos, Paulo Portes, and Oksarrak, works through the entire Lovecraftian pantheon — Cthulhu, Shub-Niggurath, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth — in nine tracks of raw, ritualistic black metal.
Eugene, Oregon's Barred Spiral is a young atmospheric black/death metal act that emerged in 2024, adding to the Pacific Northwest's strong tradition of blackened and atmospheric extreme metal.
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