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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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In existence since 2022, this Ljubljana Black Metal and Death Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within Slovenia's Alpine metal tradition speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Orlando's Ensanguined arrived in 2023 fusing the maniacal velocity of speed metal with black metal's icy malevolence — a blood-soaked debut into Florida's extremity-rich underground.
Formed in 2020, this Thasos Black Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within the Mediterranean's black metal bastion speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Black metal project from France launched in 2021. They deliver raw, uncompromising black metal from the French underground.
Fayetteville's Ensepulchre wraps blackened death metal in the murk of the Arkansas Ozarks, pairing cold tremolo assault with death metal's guttural weight in a sound that feels deliberately buried and decayed.
When Enshade emerged in 2013 from Novosibirsk, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and doom metal — all raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
St. Cloud's Enshrined channels melodic black and death metal through a cold Minnesota lens, balancing harsh aggression with the sweeping, melody-driven intensity characteristic of the Scandinavian traditions they draw from.
Castro Valley's Enshrouded emerged in 2017 from the Bay Area's fertile blackened death metal underground, cloaking death metal's crushing physicality in the cold atmosphere and dissonance of black metal.
Symphonic black metal act from Barcelona, Spain led by multi-instrumentalist Efrem Quilis and vocalist Gessami Martinez. Their discography spans from a 2013 demo through 2019's Civilizations to the 2024 full-length Poimandres, exploring hermeticism and esoteric philosophy.
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