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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Underground to the core, this black metal act from Bristol traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2016, they've built a catalog that reflects the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition.
Laying down tracks since 2015, this Skopje Black Metal and Depressive Black Metal outfit delivers tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Their place within the Southern Balkans' growing metal voice speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Black/thrash metal duo from Murcia, Spain that emerged in 2015 with a self-titled two-track release. Their sound blends black metal ferocity with thrash metal aggression.
Melodic gothic/black metal project from Wels, Austria, weaving post-punk and darkwave textures into a blackened metal framework since 2017. Their albums "Necropolis Rose" and "X" reflect an eclectic vision that merges atmospheric darkness with melodic grandeur.
Raw black metal act from Verviers in Belgium's Walloon region, channeling primitive, lo-fi aggression since 2020. Their stripped-down approach embraces the harshest, most unpolished corners of the black metal tradition.
Idaho's Eon of Anguish conjure black/death metal in the isolated Pacific Northwest interior, harnessing the region's remote vastness into music of cold and relentless darkness since 2021.
Black/death metal project from France launched in 2020. They channel decay and darkness through fierce extreme metal.
A product of Russia's vast and intense metal underground, this Krasnoyarsk-based atmospheric black metal and black metal act channels raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Active since 2012, lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Portland, Oregon's Eosphoros are a black metal cult rooted in luciferian mysticism and raw atmospheric darkness, formed in 2017 in a city with a notoriously fertile extreme underground.
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