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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Black metal project from Carmaux in southern France, launched in 2024. They bring fresh black metal intensity from the Tarn department.
Dutch black metal act, active since 2016 delivering second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Rooted in the Low Countries' prolific death metal tradition, their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Black metal and industrial hybrid from Prato, Italy active since 2015, merging raw black metal hostility with mechanical industrial textures. Their sound occupies the abrasive intersection between black metal's organic chaos and industrial's cold precision.
Enter Hell is a black metal band from Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia, active since 2002 and operating as an independent unsigned act. Their catalog includes the 2009 debut album "Eternal Black Metal", the 2017 limited-edition EP "Ten Years of Sorrow" (300 copies on CD), and the 2023 single "Emancipation of God's Creation", recorded and mastered at Nodriza Studios in Medellín.
The Norwegian city of Oslo serves as headquarters for this black metal and speed metal operation, whose arsenal includes raw, unbridled velocity channeling early 80s metal fire. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Depressive black metal and ambient project from Brno, Czech Republic, blending raw, despairing extremity with atmospheric soundscapes since 2011. Their minimalist name reflects an immersive approach: the act of entering a state of total emotional and sonic darkness.
Firmly rooted in black metal, this British act delivers dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice without compromise. They've been at it since 2025, and atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Blackened death metal act from the Kunzelsau/Ohringen area of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, later based in Heilbronn, active since 2017. Their German name, meaning "de-spirited," captures the soul-stripping ferocity of their blackened death metal.
Buffalo's harsh winters seem to seep directly into Enthauptung's atmospheric black metal — frigid, bleak, and expansive in equal measure, the project wraps raw black metal fury in layers of cold ambience that feel distinctly like a Lake Erie storm. Active since 2014.
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