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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Black-death metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2020. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the Scottish capital.
Raw black metal project originating from Czechia, now based in Langasjo, Sweden, formed in 2024. They craft primitive, stripped-down black metal rooted in lo-fi aesthetics and uncompromising rawness.
Black metal project from Ufa, capital of Bashkortostan, active since 2015. Chevauchée — a medieval French term for a destructive mounted raid — channels warlike black metal.
Black metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2022. They channel chiaroscuro darkness through atmospheric black metal from France's second city.
Washington state's Chiasmus operates in the most uncompromising reaches of raw black metal, fusing its primitive savagery with death metal's heavier attack. The band strips the music down to its most corrosive, confrontational essence.
Chifre Negro is a black metal band from São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil, formed in 2015. The band operates independently within the Brazilian extreme metal underground and is listed as active on the Metal Archives. Their name translates to "Black Horn" in Portuguese.
French black metal project formed in 2022. They craft dark, atmospheric black metal from the French underground.
Atmospheric black-death metal band from Sheffield, England, formed in 2018. They blend atmospheric black metal with death metal from the Steel City.
Progressive black-doom act from Bergen, active since 2015. Children of Cain blends atmospheric black metal with doom and progressive elements from Norway's western capital.
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