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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Lakeland's Empty pursue melodic death metal with clean Floridian ferocity, threading grief-soaked harmonies through tight, technically precise riffing since 2020.
San Diego's Empty Gods arrived in 2025 with a black metal vision stripped of ceremony, trading polish for raw nihilistic spite.
When Empty Life emerged in 2018 from Minusinsk, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal — all raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Cincinnati's Empty Skull traffic in black metal that feels like late-winter Ohio — bleak, unlit, and without apology, churning out misanthropic hostility since 2013.
San Francisco's Empty Suits channel blackened thrash with a punk backbone, dragging Bay Area aggression through the filth of second-wave black metal since 2019.
Melodic blackened death metal forged out of Sioux Falls, Empty Throne blend glacial atmosphere with visceral extremity — sweeping, dark, and arrived fully-formed in 2021.
Black metal act from Marseille, France formed in 2023. They channel dark intensity from France's Mediterranean port city.
Austin's Empyre graft symphonic ambition onto black metal's hostility, a combination that feels at home in a city where experimental extremity is never far from center stage.
Black/death metal act from Denmark, merging two of extreme metal's most aggressive subgenres since 2017. Their celestial name, referring to the highest reaches of heaven, provides striking contrast to the infernal depths of their sound.
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