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The Blind Leading The Blind (2019)
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Blood Eagle (2017)
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Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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French black/thrash metal band from Versailles, formed in 2025. They deliver hammering black/thrash from the palace city near Paris.
Bergen black metal project founded in 2006, exploring cosmic themes through dissonant and atmospheric extremity. Their sound draws from Bergen's storied black metal legacy while reaching toward more experimental territory.
French black metal band active since 2006. They deliver dark, uncompromising black metal from the French underground.
German black metal band from Kamen, active since 2007. They have been a persistent presence in the Westphalian black metal underground for nearly two decades.
Black Invocation is a black metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with roots going back to a 2003 demo titled "The True Warriors of Black Metal." The band released a compilation, "Profane Rites in Worship to Satan (16 Years of Blasphemy)," collecting material from 2006 to 2013, and their debut full-length album "Chaos - Triumph - A New Beginning" in 2017 through Abrasax Distro & Records. Their sound centers on Satanism, anti-Christianity, and the rawer traditions of Brazilian black metal.
Black Speed from the Cemeteries of Texas. Influences: Motorhead, Venom, Bathory, early Slayer, Celtic Frost. On Goat Throne Records.
Black metal band from Dallenwil, Switzerland, active since 2001. Over two decades of existence have cemented them as a fixture of the Swiss black metal underground.
Bolzano-based atmospheric black metal project active since 2015, layering ethereal textures and tremolo-picked melodies over blast-driven foundations. Their compositions explore vast emotional terrain through cascading guitars and immersive soundscapes.
Finnish black metal band from Salo, formed in 2024. They deliver cathartic black metal from the southwestern Finnish countryside.
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