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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Clovis, California black metal project conjuring cold, misanthropic atmospheres from the unlikely sun-baked terrain of the Central Valley. Their sound leans on the genre's most corrosive and unrelenting traditions.
Black-thrash metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. They fuse the icy atmosphere of black metal with the breakneck speed and riffing of thrash.
Black metal project from Sassari, Sardinia, formed in 2024. Corpsegrave channels raw black metal from the Mediterranean island.
Corpsehammer is a Chile/Sweden collaborative death/black/thrash metal project based in Dalarna, Sweden, featuring members from Swedish black metal band Omnizide alongside Chilean collaborators. The band issued three EPs in rapid succession — "Sacrilegio" (2017), "Posesión" (2017), and "Perversión" (2018), all as limited cassette runs — before consolidating them into the compilation "Sign of the Corpsehammer" (2019) and releasing their debut full-length "Metal de la muerte" via Bestial Invasion Records the same year, a record drawing heavily from Hellhammer, Sarcófago, Celtic Frost, and Darkthrone.
American atmospheric black metal project drawing on the expansive, desolate side of the genre to build bleak and immersive soundscapes. The music favors texture and dread over pure aggression.
Italian black metal project formed in 2022. CorpseHeart channels morbid atmospheres through raw black metal.
Melodic black-death metal band from the Alzey/Worms area of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 2022. They weave dark melodies through blackened death metal.
Atmospheric black metal project from Moscow, formed in 2017. Corpsetalk crafts expansive, contemplative black metal from the Russian capital.
Los Angeles black metal and crust punk act fusing the rawness of both scenes into a filthy, anarchic racket that sounds like it was recorded in a squat and played through broken equipment on purpose. The LA underground grime comes through in every note.
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