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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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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.
Black metal project from Amersfoort in Utrecht province, formed in 2024. Codex Mortis channels dark, ritualistic black metal from central Netherlands.
Raw black metal project from Poznań, formed in 2024. Codex-02 channels stripped-down, abrasive black metal from Greater Poland.
Nashville, Tennessee black-death metal act Coffin bring a grim, underground aesthetic to Music City's heavy scene, pairing raw black metal atmosphere with death metal brutality. Their music fits firmly in the underground extreme metal tradition.
Boston, Massachusetts black-death metal band Coffin Birth draw from both sides of extreme metal's most lethal pairing, delivering dark atmosphere alongside relentless aggression. Boston's storied metal scene provides fertile ground for their grim sonic vision.
Portage, Wisconsin's Coffin Black span black metal, death metal, and doom in a sound that's as bleak and cold as a Wisconsin winter. Their multi-genre approach reflects a serious engagement with extreme metal's darkest corners.
Black-thrash metal band from Cornwall, England, emerging in 2025. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash velocity from the English West Country.
St. Louis, Missouri black-death and grindcore band Coffin Full of Rats are a chaotic and filthy extreme metal act from the Gateway City's underground. Their music is fast, ugly, and unapologetically hostile.
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