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Actin' Up (2023)
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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Pennsylvania's Charred Husk of Pariah delivers raw black metal with a suffocating, nihilistic darkness that places it firmly within the most abrasive corners of the American scene. Their recordings trade in lo-fi ferocity and cold, unmediated aggression.
Asbury Park's Chasm Shroud blends black and death metal with a coastal bleakness befitting the New Jersey shore's off-season desolation. Their music is dense and atmospheric, mixing caustic riffing with moments of oppressive, suffocating dread.
Portland's Chasma pursues black metal with a vast, atmospheric ambition that reflects the Pacific Northwest's tradition of introspective, nature-haunted extremity. Their compositions favor expansive, hypnotic repetition over aggression for its own sake.
Massachusetts raw black metal project Chasmic Filth leans hard into lo-fi ugliness and punishing minimalism, operating with the contempt for accessibility that defines the American bedroom black metal underground. Their recordings are deliberately primitive and uncompromising.
Salt Lake City black metal outfit Chasmlurk brings a cold, isolated quality to their sound that reflects the high-desert landscape and the Utah underground's remove from coastal scenes. Their approach favors atmosphere and menace over speed or technical display.
Black metal project from Lisbon, formed in 2022. Chavasckall delivers raw black metal from the Portuguese capital.
Genre-crossing extreme metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2016. Chaver blend black metal, crust punk, death metal, and groove metal into a fierce and unpredictable assault.
Black metal band from Durcal in Granada province, Spain, formed in 2017. Named after the holy creatures of the Hebrew Merkabah, they channel spiritual darkness through black metal from the Andalusian Sierra Nevada.
Black metal band from Mons, Belgium, active since 2013. They forge cold, atmospheric black metal from the Walloon industrial heartland, drawing on the genre's European traditions.
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