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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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German black/death metal band from Marburg, formed in 2018. They wage blackened death metal warfare from the Hessian university town.
German black metal band from Bochum, formed in 2020. They channel bestial black metal fury from the heart of the Ruhr industrial region.
Bestialthrone was a black metal band from Caxias do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed and split up in 2024. The band pursued lyrical themes of occultism, satanism, vampirism, and death, and was released through the Dirae Tenebrae label during its brief existence.
Bestiario is a black metal band from La Rioja in the Argentine northwest, self-described as "Black Metal From the Argentinian Northwest" and centered on themes of darkness, occultism, and eternal recurrence. The band released a demo in 2019, followed by the album En los Albores del Nuevo Oscurantismo in May 2022 and the album Saturnalia. They remain active and independent.
Thrash, black, and death metal band from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2021. They channel the darkness of the Balkans through a volatile fusion of three extreme metal subgenres.
Moscow-based black metal act active since 2019, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Russian lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
Filth-encrusted raw black metal from Moscow, forged in 2018. Intentionally abrasive production values serve as a weapon, wrapping venomous riffs and shrieked vocals in a blanket of corrosive static.
Black metal project from Ełk, emerging in 2022. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Polish origins.
Finnish melodic black metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2025. They bring melodic black metal to the Finnish capital's underground.
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