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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Bremerton, Washington band blending classic heavy metal power with black and thrash metal intensity from the Pacific Northwest. Their sound bridges the old-school and extreme metal worlds with energy to spare.
Swiss black metal project formed in 2021. They craft dark, ritualistic black metal steeped in occult atmosphere and raw aggression.
Black-death metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2021. They channel dark, ritualistic extremity through blackened death metal.
Los Angeles black metal act conjuring darkness from the sprawling Southern California underground. Their sound channels the cold, atmospheric tradition of black metal against the backdrop of the city's extreme metal scene.
One-man black and war metal project from Liege, Belgium, founded in 1997 by Warlock Ov The Split Hooves, who later created Vociferian. Their album 'Erosplattered,' recorded in the late 1990s, delivers self-described 'Speed Holocaust Metal' across nine tracks of relentless blasphemy.
Newark, Delaware's Conqbine blend raw black metal fury with crust punk abrasion and post-black expansiveness, carving out a bleak and noisy niche in the mid-Atlantic underground.
Santa Rosa's Conqueror Jaw traffic in bleak black and death metal extremity, combining grim Northern California misanthropy with the raw violence of old-school underground metal.
Oakland's Conqueror Worm channel Poe-esque dread into a progressive black metal framework, weaving dissonant, intellectually restless compositions that push beyond genre convention.
Chapel Hill's Conqueror Wyrm conjure atmospheric black metal saturated in Southern Gothic bleakness, wrapping tremolo-driven cold fury in sweeping, desolate soundscapes from the Carolina woodlands.
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