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Dying Aura is a one-man black metal project from Carinthia, Austria, led by Erech Leleth. The 2020 album Of Death, Kings and Solitude draws on Swedish black metal's melodic sensibility, layering bleak atmosphere with enough melodic relief to prevent the sound from collapsing into pure noise.
Dying Blaze is a black metal band from Kramatorsk, Ukraine, formed in 2006. One of the veteran black metal acts from the Donbas region.
Dying Faith is a black and death metal band from Cervignano del Friuli, in the Udine province of Italy, formed in 2015. The project merges black metal's atmospheric darkness with death metal's crushing intensity.
Dying Forest Winds is an Austrian black metal project with a minimal online footprint, releasing raw atmospheric material through their Bandcamp page. The project inhabits the lo-fi, nature-themed corner of domestic black metal that Austria's underground has sustained for decades.
Dying Leaf is a black metal project from Bergamo, active since 2017 and drawing imagery of autumnal decay into their atmospheric compositions. Their nature-themed name reflects a connection to the melancholic, seasonal side of black metal rather than the genre's more anti-religious wing.
Lakewood, California's Dying Messiah has been merging black and death metal since 2007, forging a sound that borrows the atmospheric cold of the former and the sonic brutality of the latter into a consistently extreme sonic statement.
Dying Raven is a depressive black metal band from Chisinau, Moldova, formed in 2021. The project delivers anguished and sorrowful black metal from the Moldovan underground.
Dying Star plays atmospheric/post-black metal from Saint Petersburg, active since 2021 and channeling stellar death into expansive, reverb-drenched compositions. Their cosmic-decay name frames each song as a eulogy for a collapsing sun.
Dying Sun plays black metal from Russia, active since 2008 and channeling the slow extinction of solar light into nearly two decades of atmospheric compositions. Their name's cosmic finality pervades music steeped in terminal darkness.
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