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Los Angeles black/death metal project Ere emerged in 2020 from the city's restless underground, combining corrosive blackened tremolo with death metal's visceral physicality in a sound built on purposeful density.
A product of Scandinavia's melodic death metal epicenter, this Gävle-based black metal, doom metal, and viking metal act channels grandiose, saga-inspired compositions with choir-like vocal passages. Active since 2003, the combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Black metal project from Lubben in Brandenburg, Germany, named after Tolkien's Lonely Mountain, active since 2017. Their Middle-earth-inspired name lends a mythical, subterranean quality to their atmospheric black metal from eastern Germany.
Birmingham, Alabama black/death metal act steeped in the South's tradition of heavy, dark extremity — a city with steel in its bones and a metal underground that has always punched above its weight.
Madison's symphonic black metal counterpart to their city's groove metal namesake, this Wisconsin outfit layers orchestral grandeur over icy black metal aggression with theatrical ambition.
Black metal project from Athens, Greece active since 2015. They deliver dark, commanding black metal from the Hellenic capital.
Black/death metal band from Barcelona, Spain formed in 1996, boasting a deep catalog of ten releases including Goatworshipping Metal and Psalms of Plagues and Cult of Death. Their extensive discography spans nearly three decades of unrelenting extreme metal darkness.
Black metal project from Alken, Belgium, taking its name from Tolkien's Ash Mountains in Mordor, active since 2014. Their fantasy-inspired black metal draws from Middle-earth mythology to fuel dark, atmospheric compositions.
Salt Lake City atmospheric black metal project named for the Shadowy Mountains of Tolkien's First Age, Ered Wethrin conjures vast, wind-swept epics from Utah's high desert that feel genuinely ancient and mythic.
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