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Finnish black metal project formed in 2022. They craft dark, cemetery-themed black metal steeped in death worship and Finnish darkness.
Celestial Mass is a Pennsylvania black metal project steeped in the cold, atmospheric tradition — layered tremolo riffs, shrieked vocals, and a cavernous production aesthetic that emphasizes darkness over clarity. Their work draws from both the cosmic and the misanthropic strands of the genre.
Celestial Sovereignty is a progressive black/death metal band from Modesto, California. They blend the sinister atmosphere of black metal, the brutality of death metal, and the compositional complexity of progressive metal into multi-layered compositions.
Celestial Sword is a raw black metal project with an emphasis on nocturnal and cosmic themes, active in the underground split-release community alongside acts such as LLYR, Nightmare Ecstasy, Nocturnal Effigy, Adrasteia, and Upir. Releases include "Nocturnal Divinity," "Nocturne of the Mourning Moon," and "Constellations of Fatality and Metamorphosis."
Black metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2017. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from the Loire-Atlantique capital.
Celestial Waters is a South Dakota black metal project drawing from the atmospheric and depressive branches of the genre, with sparse, wintry arrangements and a meditative bleakness shaped by the open, isolated landscape of the Northern Plains. Their sound emphasizes texture and desolation over aggression.
Black-doom metal project from Frankfurt, Germany, emerging in 2025. They merge the bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom.
One-man atmospheric black metal project from Vienna, founded in 2024 by the artist known as Oblivion. Their debut EP 'Fall of Dying Lights' explores cosmic isolation and celestial themes, blending icy black metal with vast, space-inspired atmospheres.
Budapest-based black metal project formed in 2020. Cellar Dweller crafts subterranean, cavernous black metal steeped in darkness and isolation.
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