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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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Sacramento, California's Ctrl+All+Delete operate at the collision of black metal atmosphere and sludge metal weight, crafting dissonant, chaotic music that feels like a system-wide failure. Their sound is abrasive and disorienting by design.
Avant-garde black-death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2024. They push extreme metal into unconventional territory from the French capital.
Black metal band from Delmenhorst, Germany, active since 2008. Named after a Lovecraftian deity, Ctulu craft cosmic and occult-themed black metal from the Lower Saxon flatlands.
Portland, Oregon's Cue the Sun blend black metal's coldness with stoner and sludge metal's slow, heavy weight, creating music that is both oppressive and psychedelic. Their Pacific Northwest sound carries the region's trademark blend of beauty and bleakness.
San Diego, California black/death metal outfit Cuernos del Chivo combine raw, punishing black metal with the brutal low-end of death metal, forging a relentless and aggressive sound. Their Spanish name — "horns of the goat" — signals their commitment to old-school darkness.
Prolific one-man project with over fifteen full-lengths since 2013. Unpredictable, genre-bending compositions blending doom, prog, and symphonic elements.
Black-death-doom metal band from London, formed in 2020. They channel cult-like darkness through a crushing fusion of three extreme genres.
San Jose's Cult Graves traffick in barbaric black/death metal that draws equally from old Deicide's surgical brutality and Proclamation's war-metal chaos. Formed in 2018 and signed to Transylvanian Recordings, their 2020 full-length Strange Customs established them as one of the Bay Area underground's most uncompromising voices.
Black metal band from Avignon, France, active since 2001. With over two decades of activity, Cult Martyr deliver seasoned black metal from the Provençal city of the Popes.
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