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AMENRA "Vanuytsel 7"" (2021)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Raw black metal project from Herbstein in Hesse, Germany, channeling primitive, unpolished darkness since 2021. Their stripped-down approach embraces the lo-fi, confrontational side of black metal.
Burlington, Vermont's Ejaculatör has been delivering a nasty amalgam of black, thrash, and death metal since 2020, the umlaut signaling a dedication to filthy excess across all three traditions. Raw, fast, and gloriously crude.
Melodic black metal project from Paris, France launched in 2025. They bring fresh melodic intensity to the Parisian black metal scene.
Straddling the line between avant-garde metal and black metal, this Icelandic act fuses venomous shrieks over walls of distortion into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2020, and the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Denver's Ekelhaft — German for "disgusting" — has been practicing a no-frills, antagonistic strain of black metal since 2016. The name sets expectations that the music meets without apology.
Doom/death/black metal project from Rakovnik, Czech Republic, weaving together three of extreme metal's darkest threads since 2021. Their medically abbreviated name belies a sound that is anything but clinical in its raw, oppressive heaviness.
Part of Portugal's intimate but fiercely devoted metal community, this act channels black metal and death metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2023, based in Lisbon, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
Milan, Italy — black metal and symphonic metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2019, they deal in cinematic sweep and operatic vocals over thundering metal arrangements. Their catalog reveals a band unafraid to explore the darker corners of heavy music.
Raw black metal project from the medieval Franconian town of Dinkelsbuhl, Germany, formed in 2022. Their approach channels the genre's most primitive and unrefined tendencies through a deliberately lo-fi sonic aesthetic.
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