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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
05/17 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Finnish black metal and punk band from Tornio, formed in 2016. They merge black metal's darkness with punk's raw energy from the Swedish-Finnish border.
Black Mausoleum was a black metal project from San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, that released a self-titled Demo 2023 on Bandcamp in March of that year. The four-track demo showcased a raw, extreme black metal approach before the band dissolved shortly after its release.
Finnish death/black metal band from Lappeenranta, formed in 2025. They deliver miasmic death/black metal from the southeastern border region.
French atmospheric black metal band from Lyon, formed in 2025. They deliver mole-dark atmospheric black metal from France's second city.
German black metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2016. They channel lunar darkness into raw, atmospheric black metal.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Russia, active since 2020. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Melodic black metal outfit from Istanbul, formed in 2005. Layers of orchestration and twin-guitar harmonies elevate their compositions beyond standard black metal into more expansive territory.
Forged in 2021 from Russia, 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.
Italian symphonic metal act active since 2015, building their sound on lush orchestral arrangements, soaring vocals, and cinematic compositions. Their music draws from the European symphonic metal tradition of epic, larger-than-life heavy music.
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