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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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Porto-based black metal act active since 2018, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Portuguese lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
German black/viking metal band from Neumünster, formed in 2011. They merge black metal ferocity with viking metal's epic, Norse-inspired grandeur.
Blasphemous Black Metal from Austin.
Black Void Cult is an atmospheric and melodic black metal band from Mexico City, Mexico, formed in 2017 and signed to Concreto Records. Their 2020 debut full-length Dysphoria established the band's focus on harmonic, boundary-crossing black metal that balances melody with emotional weight. They followed it with a series of singles in 2023 leading into their second album ...Even the Stars Have to Die, which explores themes of entropy and extinction through expansive, conceptual songwriting.
Black Vul Destruktor is a black metal band from Neuquén, Argentina, known for a primitive, tribal sound rooted in South American black/death metal traditions. Their catalogue includes the EP Bestial Obscure Metal Kaos and the compilation Ov Temple ov Vul, with the LP Beyond Time and Portals of Death released through Sweden's Blood Harvest Records.
Black War is a black metal band from Taubaté, São Paulo, Brazil, tracing its roots to 1996 when members Holykran and Hammer founded a project called Necronomicon, before adopting the Black War name. The band's lyrical themes center on anti-Christianity, misanthropy, and mysticism. Their debut album "Winter Sorrow" was released in 2009 through Hammer of Damnation, incorporating material from their 1999 demo "As the Darkness Prevails."
German black metal project formed in 2022. They channel lycanthropic black metal darkness with feral intensity.
Black Wind is a black metal band from Guarulhos, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 1999 and now split up. The band operated as an independent act within the Brazilian underground black metal scene. Their Metal Archives entry documents them under contact for Arch Devil Lucfatanaz in Guarulhos, SP.
German black metal band from Wülfrath, formed in 2023. They conjure occult black metal from the Bergisches Land region.
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