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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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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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Chloranthy brings a frostbitten approach to black metal, built around cold, dissonant riffs and bleak atmosphere inspired as much by the genre's Scandinavian roots as by American underground aesthetics. Their work is dense and uncompromising, favoring texture over melody.
Mechanicsville, Virginia's Chogori, named after the world's second-highest peak, channels that sense of brutal, inhuman scale into raw and atmospheric black metal. Their music aims for the kind of vast, crushing desolation the K2 summit evokes.
UK black metal project formed in 2022. They craft dark, atmospheric black metal.
Dayton's Choking drag black metal orthodoxy through the Ohio rust belt, smearing it with thick sludge and corrosive atmosphere. The result is bleak, slow-burning, and confrontational.
Milwaukee's Cholernik fuse black metal darkness with progressive ambition, building elaborate compositions that shift between cold atmosphere and technical complexity. A forward-thinking act from the Wisconsin underground.
Frigid Depressive Black Metal out of Texas.
Roanoke's Choose to Suffer collide black metal venom with hardcore aggression and thrash momentum, producing a chaotic and combative hybrid. Virginia underground at its most unruly.
Progressive black metal act from Chișinău, Moldova, active since 2013. Chordewa blends atmospheric black metal with progressive ambition from the Eastern European nation.
Black-death metal band from Mulheim an der Ruhr, Germany, formed in 2015. Their name meaning disease in Polish, Choroba fuse black and death metal from the industrial Ruhr region.
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