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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Symphonic black metal band from Landgraaf in Limburg, with Bandcamp presence since 2012. Carach Angren has become one of the Netherlands' most internationally recognized black metal acts, known for cinematic horror narratives and orchestral grandeur.
Blackened death metal act from Fossano in Cuneo province, Piedmont, formed in 2019. Caradhras — named after the Tolkien mountain — conjures dark, epic extreme metal.
Black metal band from the Essen/Arnsberg area of Germany, formed in 2015. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from the forested hills of the Sauerland and Ruhr regions.
Black-thrash metal band from Bremen, Germany, formed in 2020. They fuse the icy intensity of black metal with the riff-driven aggression of thrash.
California black metal project launched in 2016, crafting raw and atmospheric material in the solo underground tradition.
Florida/California brutal death and black metal band formed around 2011, pairing punishing dual-genre aggression with science-fiction lyrical themes.
Providence, Rhode Island black metal project active since 2018, channeling themes of despair and resilience into bleak, atmospheric compositions.
Knoxville, Tennessee black and funeral doom metal project, layering glacially slow funeral doom atmospherics beneath raw black metal hostility.
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