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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Cold, unrelenting black metal from Cesena/Forlì, active since 2021. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Atmospheric black metal project from Prague, formed in 2021. Their releases including Blitzkrieg and Curse of Mind channel dark, immersive black metal with an atmospheric edge.
Pagan black metal project rooted from Zagreb, formed in 1998. Folk instrumentation and nature-worship themes intertwine with blast beats and tremolo picking, creating a bridge between old-world mysticism and modern extremity.
Quarteira-based death metal act active since 2015, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
Behead Christ was a black metal band from Santiago, Chile, active from 1998 until their split in 2021, with lyrical themes centered on blasphemy and Satanism. Their discography spans nearly two decades and includes Your Will Is Mine... Satan!!! (1999), In Your Cross! In Your Anus!, and a split release with fellow Chilean black metal act Hades Archer. They were one of the longer-running bands in Chile's underground black metal scene.
Forged in 2021 from Lisbon, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Finnish raw black metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2024. They channel raw, unfiltered black metal from the Finnish capital.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Petroupolis/Athens, active since 2012. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Unholy black metal duo from Swindon in Wiltshire, formed in 1994, featuring Dev Culto on guitar and Morbid Von Savagery on vocals and multi-instruments. Their catalog stretching from the 1994 demo Unnaturally Evil through In MoonShadow spans decades of raw, uncompromising black metal including rehearsal recordings and live compilations.
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