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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Atmospheric black metal entity from Sweden, formed in 2014. Their sound envelops the listener in walls of reverb-drenched tremolo picking and shimmering ambient passages that dissolve the boundary between beauty and ferocity.
Finnish black metal band from Rovaniemi, formed in 2017. They channel dark emotions through black metal from Finnish Lapland.
Black Empire was a black metal band from Contagem, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2009 with themes centered on Satanism. The band released the album "2000 AD" as an independent act before eventually splitting up. They were part of the active Brazilian underground black metal scene based in the Belo Horizonte metropolitan area.
German black/death metal band from Dettelbach in Franconia, formed in 2014. They forge a hostile union of black and death metal extremity from the Bavarian wine country.
Spanish black metal band from Huesca in the Pyrenean foothills, formed in 2019. They deliver sacrilegious black metal from the mountainous border region of Aragon.
Stavropol-based black metal act active since 2017, 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.
Krasnoyarsk-based atmospheric black metal project active since 2013, layering ethereal textures and tremolo-picked melodies over blast-driven foundations. Their compositions explore vast emotional terrain through cascading guitars and immersive soundscapes.
German black metal band from Oldenburg in Lower Saxony, formed in 2016. They deliver cold, unrelenting black metal from the North German plains.
Blasphemous Black Metal / Dark Ambient from Indianapolis, Indiana (early); Spring, Texas (later).
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