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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Black metal project from La Garde in southern France, active since 2018. They craft cold black metal from the warm Mediterranean coast.
Post-black metal and post-rock project from Wurzburg, Germany, blending atmospheric textures with heavy, emotive compositions since 2013. Their German name, meaning "own world," reflects the introspective, self-contained universe of their expansive sound.
Olympia, Washington's Eigenlicht — "intrinsic light" — has been practicing black metal with a raw, Northern European seriousness since 2015, emerging from a city more associated with indie rock but building something colder and more ritualistic.
A raw black metal project out of Joliet, Illinois, Eighten Neintres emerged in 2021 with a lo-fi, caustic approach rooted in the underground traditions of the genre. Corrosive production and stripped-down hostility are the calling cards here.
Active in London since 2022, this British act forges Black Metal built on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere. Frostbitten riffing and anti-cosmic lyrical themes define their output.
Pagan black metal act from the Oberhausen/Bottrop area of Germany's Ruhr region, channeling Norse mythology through raw black metal since 2014. Named after the stag in Norse cosmology that stands atop Valhalla, their sound carries the weight of ancient Germanic paganism.
Depressive black metal project from the Baltic coastal city of Stralsund in northeastern Germany, formed in 2025. Their name, meaning "a cold gust of wind" in German, captures the bleak, wind-swept atmosphere of their northern German depressive black metal.
Ein Schwarzes Kreuz — German for "a black cross" — formed in Sacramento in 2021, channeling a cold and austere brand of black metal that leans into the genre's more ceremonial and oppressive traditions.
Black metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia active since 2008, representing nearly two decades of raw black metal from the Baltic-facing cultural capital.
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