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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Danish black metal project emerging in 2025. They channel darkness through raw, atmospheric black metal.
Welsh black metal band formed in 2022. Their Welsh name meaning dragon cult, Cwlt Draig channel Celtic and draconic themes through black metal.
Black metal project from Reykjavík, formed in 2021. Cxaxukluth — named after a Lovecraftian outer god — channels cosmic horror through Icelandic black metal.
San Jose, California blackened death metal band forging a sound out of the collision between black metal's cold atmosphere and death metal's brutal low end. Cyanic channels Bay Area underground extremity with menace and weight.
Austin, Texas black metal band driving cold tremolo riffs and blastbeats through a raw, underground framework. Cyanide Winds adds a Texas edge to black metal's atmospheric darkness and corrosive fury.
Melodic black-heavy metal band from Barcelona, Spain, active since 2011. They weave melodic elements through blackened metal from the Catalan capital.
Bakersfield, California melodic black metal band blending the atmosphere of black metal with melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility. Cybil brings Central Valley underground intensity to a style rooted in darkness and melody.
Symphonic black metal act from the Greek port city of Volos, active since 2015. Cychaeon blends orchestral grandeur with tremolo-picked ferocity in a nod to Hellenic tradition.
San Francisco band fusing melodic death metal with black metal atmosphere and Bay Area extreme metal ferocity. Cyclaera builds its sound on twin-guitar melody and black metal coldness, tempered by death metal's brutal drive.
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