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Viribus Unitis (2025)
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Existential Void Guardian (2018)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Cold, unrelenting black metal from Roosendaal, active since 2013. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Black metal act from Flanders, Belgium, formed in 2024. A freshly emerged voice in the Flemish black metal underground.
Dutch raw black metal project active since 2015, burying its compositions beneath layers of caustic distortion and lo-fi haze. Their uncompromising approach to production channels the most primitive currents of the second wave.
German thrash/black metal band from Berlin, formed in 2021. They fuse thrash metal's headbanging energy with black metal's dark atmosphere.
German black metal band from Saarlouis, formed in 2019, whose sound evolved from a black/death/gothic metal and rock hybrid toward a purer black metal direction. Their stylistic refinement reflects an increasingly focused vision.
Darlington-based black metal act channeling the raw fury of the North East English underground across releases Occulta Tenebris and their self-titled record. Dark atmospheric passages give way to relentless tremolo-picked aggression.
Khabarovsk-based gothic metal act active since 2021, interweaving dark romantic atmospheres with heavy guitar work and dramatic vocal performances. Their sound draws from the tradition of Type O Negative and Paradise Lost, balancing heaviness with melancholic beauty.
Spanish black metal band from Catalonia, formed in 2025. They deliver ecstatic black metal from the Catalan underground.
Uncompromising death metal from Gävle, active since 2015. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
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