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San Antonio's Essence of Undeath emerged in 2021 wielding a corrosive blend of black and death metal forged in South Texas heat. Their blackened death attack is both ferocious and suffocating.
Doom/black metal act from Berlin, Germany, whose name means "essence" in German, active since 2010. Their fifteen-year career has produced a catalog of crushing doom enriched with black metal's atmospheric darkness from the German capital.
Estado Revoltoso is a death/black metal band from Valparaíso de Goiás, Brazil, whose old-school extreme metal draws on both genres' most aggressive traditions. The band released their debut album "Eles Caminhavam com a Morte" in January 2018, followed by "Deus Inexistente" in 2019, and have contributed tracks to international compilations including Metal Against Nazifascism.
Black metal, death metal, and grindcore act from Badalona near Barcelona, Spain, active since 2015. They deliver a punishing blend of extreme subgenres from the greater Barcelona metropolitan area.
When Esthesis emerged in 2020 from Kirov, 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.
Firmly rooted in black metal, this Russian actfrom Krasnodar delivers dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice without compromise. They've been at it since 2021, and atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Raw black metal entity from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Estuary Battalion VII traffic in primitive, tape-warped hostility with no interest in polish or compromise. Since 2021 they have embraced the lo-fi aesthetic as a weapon in itself.
Practitioners of black metal, this Hungarian outfit has been refining their craft since 2018. Their sound hinges on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere, delivered with unshakable resolve.
Black metal project from Grenoble, France active since 2012. They deliver cold black metal from the Alpine French city.
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