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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Black metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2022. They craft atmospheric black metal from the West Country.
Black metal project from Kyiv, formed in 2025. Cor in Somnia — Latin for 'heart in sleep' — channels atmospheric black metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Melodic black metal project from Sogndal founded by ex-Windir keyboardist Gaute Refsnes, replacing folk influences with classical inspiration drawn from Prokofiev, Grieg, and Rachmaninov. Fellow former Windir member Stian Bakketeig also joined, making Cor Scorpii a vital continuation of the Sognametal legacy on Dark Essence Records.
Progressive black-death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2018. They blend progressive complexity with extreme metal darkness from the French capital.
New York's Coral Cross bend black metal through an avant-garde lens, disrupting the genre's orthodoxies with unconventional structures and experimental sonic choices. They occupy an unsettling space between atmospheric extremity and deliberate strangeness.
St. Charles, Missouri's Corax take black metal's foundational elements — cold atmospheres, raw production, and relentless misanthropic energy — and channel them from the Missouri underground with uncompromising fidelity to the genre's spirit. Their work is bleak and unadorned.
Black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. They craft dark black metal from the Greek capital.
Depressive black metal project from France, formed in 2019. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal steeped in despair.
Petaluma's Cormorant blend black and death metal with folk textures and progressive ambition across sweeping, literary-minded albums. They are one of the most ambitious DIY metal acts in the American underground.
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