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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Pagan black metal band from Santander, Spain, active since 2003. With over two decades of history, CrystalMoors channel Celtic and pagan themes through atmospheric black metal from the Cantabrian coast.
Tulsa, Oklahoma black metal entity Crá traffic in primitive, atmospheric darkness with a raw production aesthetic that keeps the music brutal and unpolished. Rooted in the underground, their sound is austere and unrelenting.
Depressive black metal project from the rural village of Magla, active since 2021 and channeling isolation and anguish through bleak sonic landscapes. Their remote origins lend an authentically desolate quality to their despondent sound.
Black metal act from Szombathely, Hungary, active since 2009. Csejtey takes its name from the Hungarian spelling of Čachtice, the castle of the infamous Blood Countess Elizabeth Báthory.
Chicago's Csorna occupy the murky intersection of black metal and crust punk, delivering ferocious, politically charged music with a raw edge. Their sound draws on both the chaos of d-beat and the darkness of the second wave.
Denver, Colorado black metal act Ctanic approach the genre from a stripped-down, high-altitude perspective, channeling raw aggression and bleak atmosphere. Their music is rooted in classic second-wave aesthetics with a Mile High edge.
Black-doom-progressive-stoner act from Rotterdam, formed in 2019. Cthuluminati merges Lovecraftian cosmic horror with genre-defying metal that spans doom, black, progressive, and stoner traditions.
Black-doom-sludge metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland, emerging in 2025. They merge black metal darkness with doom-sludge weight from the Finnish-Russian borderlands.
Atmospheric black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2017. They craft vast, Lovecraftian-themed atmospheric black metal from the Finnish capital.
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