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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Speed-obsessed, blasphemous death metal inspired by Angelcorpse, Krisiun, and Hate Eternal. Releases on Lavadome Productions and Iron Blood and Death Corporation.
Black-thrash metal band from France, emerging in 2025. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash metal velocity.
California solo project by Agravain that evolved from power/melodic death metal into black, pagan, and folk metal territory, drawing on themes of despair, fantasy, and ancient legend before disbanding around 2010.
Black metal project from Genoa, formed in 2021. Camponero channels raw black metal from the Ligurian coast of northwestern Italy.
Arlington, Virginia black metal act with roots stretching back to 1985, one of the earlier American outfits to operate in the extreme underground.
Denton/Fort Worth raw black metal and ambient project active 2017-2018, exploring themes of alchemy, the afterlife, and extinction across lo-fi, atmospheric compositions.
Tahlequah, Oklahoma black metal project active since the early 2020s, operating in the raw and uncompromising vein of the underground scene.
Portuguese black metal project formed in 2016. Candelabrum crafts ritualistic, atmospheric black metal steeped in occult tradition.
American black metal project active since 2019, dwelling in the raw and hostile corridors of the underground tradition.
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