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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Black metal project from Austria, formed in 2021. They channel the darkness and intensity of traditional black metal with an underground ethos, maintaining an air of mystery around the project.
Blackened thrash act from Catania, Sicily, active since 2013. Cromìa Oscura — Italian for 'dark hue' — channels dark aggression from beneath Mount Etna.
Northern California black/folk metal act Crone weave pagan atmosphere and acoustic textures into their blasting framework, drawing on nature worship and the wilder traditions of folk-infused extreme metal.
Black metal project from Genoa, formed in 2021. Cronoth crafts raw black metal from the Ligurian port city.
Sugar Hill, Georgia black metal outfit Crooked Cross deliver cold, misanthropic riffs and bleak atmosphere rooted in the rawer traditions of the Southern American underground.
Raw, furious blackened death metal. Project of JR Escalante (Nocturnal Hollow). Influenced by Mayhem, Darkthrone, and Inquisition.
Black metal project from Gothenburg, formed in 2019. Crooked Horns channels raw, occult black metal from Sweden's west coast.
Seattle black metal/hardcore act Cross fuse the bleak intensity of black metal atmosphere with the visceral directness of hardcore punk, part of the Pacific Northwest's sprawling extreme underground.
Black metal project from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2020. Cross Bringer channels dark, blasphemous black metal from Russia's northern capital.
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