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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Black-doom metal project from Helsinki, Finland. They merge the bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom.
St. Petersburg black metal act formed in 1999, rooted in the raw, atmospheric tradition of the genre with a murky, cold production style that emphasizes malevolent mood over technical display.
Black-death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2016. They merge the atmospheric darkness of black metal with the crushing brutality of death metal.
Chicago-based act fusing melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the brutality of deathcore breakdowns, delivering technically precise riffwork alongside moments of punishing heaviness.
Funeral doom and black metal project from Portugal, active since 2015. Carma crafts glacially slow, oppressive doom with black metal atmospherics.
German black metal project from the Saarland/Baden-Wurttemberg region, active since 2014. Named after a fortress in Tolkien's Angmar, Carn Dum craft dark, atmospheric black metal rooted in fantasy and nature themes.
Florida black/doom project formed in 2026 out of Palm Coast, channeling bleak, misanthropic atmosphere through the intersection of raw black metal and funeral-paced doom.
Progressive black-groove metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2023. They blend progressive complexity with black metal darkness and heavy grooves.
Brookline-rooted black metal band from 1990, emerging from the early New England extreme metal underground with the cold, aggressive sound typical of the era's raw black metal output.
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