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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Atmospheric black metal project from Switzerland, building immersive, layered soundscapes over tremolo-driven foundations since 2013. Named after a medicinal herb, their sound carries a natural, organic quality within the atmospheric black metal tradition.
Hailing from Exeter, New York, Euporie has been forging raw, uncompromising black metal since 2013. Named after one of Jupiter's outermost moons, they channel the void of deep space into frigid, desolate soundscapes rooted in the American black metal underground.
Atmospheric black metal project from France launched in 2023. They craft contemplative, layered black metal atmospheres.
Black metal act from La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, channeling raw, uncompromising darkness since 2020. Named after the ancient Greek deity of wide-flowing waters, their sound carries an oceanic depth beneath its black metal ferocity.
Venomous Black Metal out of Texas.
Depressive black metal project from Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, channeling bleakness and emotional torment since 2014. Their name, a variant of "eurythmy" meaning harmonious movement, provides an ironic contrast to the dissonant despair of their sound.
In existence since 2006, this Pervouralsk Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal, and Symphonic Metal outfit delivers orchestral grandeur married to heavy guitar-driven foundations. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Arti's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this black metal unit is among them — wielding dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
A solo black metal project based in Greenville, Texas, Evan Cotner has been building an idiosyncratic body of work since 2005 that spans black metal and various adjacent territories. Operating from the rural expanse of Northeast Texas, the project carries the isolated, self-driven spirit common to the most committed one-person black metal undertakings.
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