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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Raw black metal band from Toulon, France, formed in 2023. They deliver lo-fi, primitive black metal from the Var coast of Provence.
Clenching Shadow is a stripped-down, atmospheric black metal project rooted in cold, minimalist composition and a fiercely underground aesthetic. Their music is sparse and bleak, prioritizing mood and darkness over production.
Black-death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2020. They merge the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal aggression.
Cloak formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 2013, founded by Scott Taysom and Sean Bruneau as a reaction to what they saw as a lack of dark, dangerous heavy music in the local scene. Signed to Season of Mist and later Metal Blade Records, the band combines traditional heavy metal structures with black metal atmospherics, black and roll energy, and gothic rock mood, citing Dissection, Deep Purple, and Fields of the Nephilim as core influences. Their third album Black Flame Eternal appeared in 2023.
Vancouver, WA's Cloak of Displacement inhabit the slow, suffocating intersection of black metal and drone, constructing vast, formless pieces built on dissonance and sustained tension. Their work is meditative and unsettling in equal measure.
Nashville's Cloaked produce raw, primitive black metal with a deep commitment to the genre's most unadorned and hostile traditions. Their recordings are deliberately lo-fi and confrontational, rejecting any polish in favor of pure darkness.
A one-man black metal project from Roslyn, New York, Clocktower of Hiraeth was conceived by the entity known as Myghûl the Drowned in 2018. Built around themes of history, addiction, and anti-religion, the project carved out a bleak atmospheric sound before going quiet.
Black-thrash metal band from Derby, England, formed in 2022. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash aggression from the East Midlands.
Black-doom act from Kristiansand, southern Norway, formed in 2019. Cloth weaves bleak, atmospheric heaviness from the country's southern coast.
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