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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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Black metal band from Leipzig, Germany, active since 2014. They craft cold, intense black metal from the cultural heart of Saxony.
Black-death metal band from Waldkraiburg, Germany, formed in 2014. They merge the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality.
New Jersey black metal outfit conjuring cold, atmospheric grimness from the Garden State's flat expanse. Their sound draws from the raw, second-wave tradition with an uncompromising underground edge.
Symphonic blackened death-deathcore act from Chelyabinsk in the Urals, active since 2015. Coated with Filth merges orchestral elements with a volatile mix of extreme subgenres.
Black-thrash act from Kristiansand, active since 2012. Cobolt 60 — named after the radioactive isotope — delivers toxic, high-energy blackened thrash.
Muncie, Indiana's Cocaine Culture are a genre-defying chaos engine drawing from black, death, doom, sludge, and alternative metal in equal and unsettling measure. The result is a dense, disorienting sound that refuses easy categorization.
Black-death metal band from Dusseldorf, Germany, formed in 2018. They channel occult darkness through a fusion of black and death metal.
Uppsala death/black metal project formed in 2023, named after the legendary medieval manuscript also known as the Devil's Bible. Their extreme fusion channels darkness and occult mystique from Sweden's ancient ecclesiastical center.
Raw black metal project from Tolyatti on the Volga, formed in 2022. Codex Moh channels lo-fi, stripped-down black metal from the Soviet-era auto city.
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