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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
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 London, active since 2013. They craft dark, nihilistic black metal from the English capital.
Raleigh black metal act conjuring raw, icy darkness out of the North Carolina underground. Their music leans into the grim, lo-fi aesthetic of classic second-wave black metal.
Black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 1987. One of the earliest black metal bands in Scotland, Coronizer are pioneers of the Scottish extreme metal underground.
Black metal project from Terneuzen in Zeeland, formed in 2017. Corozain crafts dark black metal from the Netherlands' remote southwestern coast.
Black-death metal band from Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, formed in 2018. They merge the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing aggression.
Black metal project from Pescara, Abruzzo, formed in 2022. Corpo di Guardia — Italian for 'guardhouse' — crafts raw black metal from the Adriatic coast of central Italy.
Baltimore black metal project forging dark, atmospheric grimness out of the Maryland underground. Their sound is raw and introspective, rooted in the bleaker end of American black metal.
Iowa-based act from Griswold fusing death metal intensity with groove metal's mid-paced stomp and heaviness. Their songs hit hard with a rhythmically focused, punishing approach.
Black metal band from the English Midlands, formed in 2020. They craft atmospheric black metal from the heart of England.
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