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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Black metal band from Le Pouliguen on the Loire-Atlantique coast, France, formed in 2021. They craft atmospheric black metal from the French Atlantic shore.
Black metal project from Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic in northern Russia, formed in 2018. Cyticra channels boreal black metal from the sub-Arctic taiga.
California black metal project operating in the underground tradition of raw, atmospheric black metal. Cytonic pursues a cold and corrosive sound built on the genre's most primitive and hostile elements.
Los Angeles black metal band operating in the California underground with a raw and atmospheric approach to the genre. Czar CA pursues cold, minimalist black metal with the hostility and grimness of the old-school tradition.
Black metal project from Poznań, formed in 2025. Czarna Jucha — a Polish blood soup — channels dark folklore through raw black metal from Greater Poland.
Polish black metal project formed in 2019. Czarna Magia — Polish for 'black magic' — delivers occult-driven black metal.
Black metal project from Szczecin in northwestern Poland, formed in 2019. Czernina — named after the Polish blood soup — channels dark folk horror through black metal.
Polish black metal project from Silesia, formed in 2018. Czort — a Slavic devil figure — channels blasphemous black metal from the industrial heartland.
Atmospheric black metal project from Geneva, Switzerland, creating music rooted in deep emotions, nature, and folklore. Across albums like The Last Rain and Devoured By The Oak, Can Bardd channels howling mountains and misty forests into intense, heartfelt black metal with folk metal accents.
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