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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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French black metal project formed in 2019. They channel revolting black metal from the French underground.
Black metal project from Athens, emerging in 2016. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Greek origins.
German black metal band from Einbeck in Lower Saxony, formed in 2011. They perform dark, ritualistic black metal from the southern reaches of the North German plains.
Black River is a Thrash/Black Metal band from São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, with their name translating the Portuguese meaning of their home city. Listed on the Encyclopaedia Metallum, the band operates in the extreme metal underground of inland São Paulo state, with lyrical themes centered on Satanism, hate, and occultism.
Finnish heavy/black/speed metal band from Hyvinkää, formed in 2018. They draw from three classic metal traditions for a fast, dark, and powerful sound.
Black metal project from Viken, emerging in 2020. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Norwegian origins.
Delft-based black metal act active since 2007, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Dutch lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
UK pagan black/death metal duo of Kolbladnyr and Ohynn, active since 2004. Their releases from Rites through the Ex Oblivione split with Prometheus Rising channel ancestral memory and nocturnal consciousness through atmospheric black metal with doom-death undertones.
Czech atmospheric black metal project formed in 2020. They weave atmospheric textures and immersive soundscapes into a foundation of raw black metal intensity.
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