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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Devastating Black / Death Metal out of Texas.
Providence, Rhode Island band Churchburn forge a bleak convergence of black metal, doom, and sludge, delivering harrowing, slow-motion devastation across releases on Hells Headbangers and Relapse. Their sound is suffocating and deliberate, built on crushing tempos and corrosive atmosphere.
Maryland Churchburner operate in the crossfire between black metal aggression and thrash metal momentum, channeling both traditions into fast, abrasive material. Their approach leans rawer than their Iowa City namesake.
Wheeling Island, West Virginia black metal project Churchburner pursue a stripped-back, atmospheric rawness that suits the isolation of their Appalachian surroundings. Their recordings carry the bleak, cold energy characteristic of American underground black metal.
Battle Ground, Washington one-person project CHVD crafts desolate, introspective depressive black metal characterized by icy tremolo lines and suffocating bleakness. The project leans into isolation and despair as core aesthetic anchors.
Raw black metal project from Luxembourg, formed in 2020. Chzustch channels lo-fi, abrasive black metal from the small European nation.
Raleigh, North Carolina's Château blend traditional heavy metal songcraft with black metal atmosphere, resulting in music that feels both nostalgic and unsettling. Their songs carry melodic hooks beneath a layer of occult darkness.
Black metal project from Chernivtsi in western Ukraine, formed in 2024. Château Noir — French for 'black castle' — channels dark black metal from the former Habsburg city.
Madison, Wisconsin solo project Cicada the Burrower weaves post-black metal and progressive metal into elaborate, emotionally turbulent compositions that range from serene to overwhelming. The project's releases on Bindrune Recordings have earned widespread underground recognition for their depth and originality.
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