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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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Blackened crust punk band from Bristol, England, formed in 2020. They fuse black metal darkness with crust punk's raw fury from the West Country.
Atmospheric black metal band from Nottingham, England, formed in 2020. They craft spectral, immersive black metal from the East Midlands.
Blackened death metal act from Miass in the Chelyabinsk region, active since 2011. Corpse Flesh channels dark extreme metal from the Ural mountains.
Corpse Forest was a black metal band from Itabaiana, Brazil, active around 2019 before splitting up. They released a self-titled album and a remastered version of their track “Wandering Dead Man” in April 2019, with material available on Bandcamp featuring tracks such as “Forest of Corpses” and “The Black Moon.”
Montana black metal project drawing on the cold isolation of Big Sky country to craft frigid, atmospheric grimness. Their music leans into raw, primitive black metal aesthetics.
Elizabeth, New Jersey black-death metal band fusing icy black metal atmospherics with death metal's unrelenting brutality. Their sound is dark, punishing, and rooted in extreme metal orthodoxy.
Pinckney, Michigan black-death metal band combining the icy aggression of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality. Their Midwest roots bring a raw, unpolished intensity to their sound.
Blackened brutal death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2023. They blend black metal darkness with brutal death metal ferocity from Yorkshire.
Melodic black-thrash act from Woerden, Utrecht province, active since 2012. Corpsecandle weaves melodic hooks into blackened thrash from central Netherlands.
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