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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Extreme Power Metal (2019)
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rosemary (2023)
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Black metal project from Milan, formed in 2015. Cold Raven crafts frigid, atmospheric black metal from Italy's largest city.
Cold Readings brings black metal's nihilism to the sun-scorched sprawl of Bakersfield, California, an unlikely pairing that gives their raw, corrosive sound a dusty, disorienting edge.
Gothenburg death/black metal act formed in 2011, merging the city's legendary death metal heritage with black metal's atmospheric intensity. Their fusion approach draws from Sweden's deepest wells of extreme metal.
UK black metal project active since 2013. They channel cold void themes through atmospheric black metal.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Alicante, Spain, formed in 2023. Cold Without Sun blend black metal, deathcore, and symphonic elements into an ambitious sound from the Mediterranean coast.
Black metal project from Flanders, Belgium, the solo work of Norgaath, who also performs with Enthroned, Nightbringer, and Grimfaug. Albums 'Lingering Voidwards' and 'The Unwritten Pages of Death' emphasize atmosphere and variation within a black metal framework.
Symphonic melodic death-black metal band from Vantaa, Finland, formed in 2018. They weave symphonic elements through a foundation of blackened melodic death metal.
Black metal band from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2013. They deliver cold, intense black metal shaped by the traditions of the genre's European heritage.
San Jose's ColdClaw operates at the intersection of black and death metal, carving out a sound that owes as much to Scandinavian darkness as it does to the Bay Area's storied extreme metal underground.
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