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The Blind Leading The Blind (2019)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Blood Eagle (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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Atmospheric black metal project from Rivne in northwestern Ukraine, active since 2015. Colotyphus delivers expansive, atmospheric black metal from the Volyn region.
Black metal band from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, formed in 2014. They craft atmospheric black metal from the gateway to the Black Forest.
Black-death-sludge metal band from Vichy, France, formed in 2021. They blend extreme metal darkness with sludge weight from the Auvergne spa town.
Milwaukee black metal act Columbarium conjure cold, atmospheric darkness from the shores of Lake Michigan. Their music is austere and ritualistic, dwelling in shadows rarely lit by the Upper Midwest sun.
Black metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2009. They channel dark intensity through atmospheric black metal from the German capital.
Chicago's Comaborn fuse black metal's icy menace with death metal's brutality into a hybrid that feels both vicious and atmospheric. The Windy City's underground provides fertile ground for their dark, aggressive sound.
Clementon, New Jersey's Come and Get It play black metal-tinged speed metal that's nasty and stripped-down, channeling the raw aggression of the early underground. Fast, mean, and unconcerned with polish.
Black-death-doom metal band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2015. They blend the darkness of black metal with the brutality of death metal and the crushing weight of doom.
Blackened crust/grind addressing border, religious, and governmental oppression in the El Paso region. Active 2010-2016 on Unholy Anarchy Records.
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