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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Indiana duo from Chesterton whose angular black metal riffs intertwine with pounding primordial death metal, drawing on influences ranging from Demilich to Cynic. Their album Staring Through the Veil established them as a quietly distinctive voice in the melodic black/death underground.
Solo black metal project from Clarksville, Tennessee founded in 2007 under the name Frostbitten Sabbath before settling on Cryptic Frost and later evolving into Stamfar. The project weaves folk and ambient textures into a raw black metal frame, with themes of isolation, vampyrism, and witchcraft.
Black-doom-thrash metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2024. They blend the darkness of black metal with doom weight and thrash aggression from the Hanseatic port city.
Raw black metal act from Phoenix, Arizona operating in the tradition of lo-fi, blasphemic underground black metal with thematic ties to darkness and evil. The band remains fiercely independent and obscure within the Southwest extreme metal underground.
Blackened death metal band from Paducah, Kentucky formed in 2014 by ex-Voyage of Slaves members, blending aggressive, melodic, and grimly atmospheric approaches. Their debut EP Gateways (2015) was praised by No Clean Singing as one of that year's best debut releases.
One-man black/thrash project out of Kelseyville, California in the rural Lake County highlands, crafting raw and aggressive metal from a solitary perspective. The project remains independent and underground, releasing material across multiple metal platforms.
Nashville, Tennessee solo project started in 2012 by Matthew Plunkett, beginning as post-black metal and noise before migrating toward raw death metal and experimental noise across a prolific output of full-lengths, demos, EPs, and splits. Releases like Putrid Remnants (2020) reflect the project's ongoing evolution away from its atmospheric origins.
Depressive black metal project from Madisonville, Texas operating in the raw, introspective tradition of the DSBM underground, built around themes of isolation and personal suffering. The band represents a rare outpost of the subgenre in the East Texas metal landscape.
Depressive black metal project from Slovakia, formed in 2020. Cryptic Vampire channels vampiric melancholy through atmospheric black metal.
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