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Culto Licántropo is a black metal band from Bogotá, Colombia. Signed to Sacrilegio Records, they released their debut EP "Culto licántropo eterno" in 2024.
Culto Profano is a Brazilian black metal band associated with the Choduus Brotherhood, an underground collective of Brazilian black metal acts. The band released the album "Inferno" on pro CD-R in 2010 and contributed to a split titled "666" with Naberus in 2015; both releases were later compiled on "Bestial Triunfo" in 2022. The band has since split up.
Black metal project from Belgium, formed in 2017. Devoted to the worship of the night, they create dark and ritualistic black metal steeped in nocturnal atmosphere and occult tradition.
Herndon, Virginia's Cultum Draculesti are a duo devoted to vampyric black/doom metal that prioritizes slow, doomish tempos and an atmosphere of Gothic darkness over raw aggression. Formed in 2020 from the ashes of Spinster City, their self-titled 2021 debut established a sound of atmospheric rawness steeped in mythology, death, and darkened beauty.
Blackened death metal act from Warsaw, formed in 2017. Cultum Interitum — Latin for 'worship of destruction' — channels dark aggression from the Polish capital.
Black-death metal band from Bellcaire d'Emporda in Girona province, Spain, formed in 2019. They channel death-worshipping darkness through blackened death metal from the Catalan Emporda.
New Orleans's Cultum Nocte apply the Crescent City's longstanding tradition of extreme, ritualistic metal to a black/death framework, producing music that carries the oppressive humidity and occult atmosphere of their surroundings. The Louisiana band operates as part of a local underground that has always thrived at metal's most uncompromising edges.
Relentless Melodic Black Metal from Brownsville.
Los Angeles duo Cultus Profano — Advorsus and Strzyga — channel pure Satanic black metal with an emphasis on furious, melodic riffing that balances ferocity and craft. Signed to Debemur Morti Productions, their albums Sacramentum Obscurus (2018) and Accursed Possession (2020) established them as one of Southern California's most formidable black metal acts.
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