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When Evil Scarecrow emerged in 2006 from Nottingham, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and thrash metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Blackened thrash metal act from the Aalst/Haaltert area in East Flanders, Belgium, hammering out aggressive, punk-infused thrash since 2010. Their approach fuses the speed and venom of thrash with black metal's darkness and first-wave punk attitude.
Black/death/doom metal project from Minsk, Belarus, weaving together three of extreme metal's darkest subgenres since 2019. Their multi-faceted approach creates a dense, suffocating sound that draws from each genre's most oppressive qualities.
New Orleans black metal and hardcore outfit Evil Tree has been fusing the city's swamp-soaked darkness with the aggression of hardcore punk since 2022. The NOLA underground has always bred its own mutant strains of heavy music, and Evil Tree channels that local spirit through a black metal lens scraped raw by hardcore's confrontational energy.
Death/thrash/black metal act from Leipzig, Germany, merging three of extreme metal's most aggressive subgenres since 2008. Their martial name drives a sound that draws from each genre's most combative and ferocious elements.
Heavy/black metal act from Anzegem in West Flanders, Belgium, forging an unusual blend of traditional heavy metal with black metal elements since 2008. Their long tenure makes them a veteran presence in the Belgian underground with a distinctive genre-crossing sound.
Evilbringer is a black/death/thrash metal project from Manaus, Brazil, created by KevKrashör in 2016. The project released the full-length "Worship Evil Gods," a raw and aggressive record blending black, death, and thrash metal influences, before the creator chose to end the project to focus on personal wellbeing.
Istanbul'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.
Evilcult is a speed/black/thrash metal band from Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, founded in 2016 by vocalist and guitarist Lucas "From Hell" with drummer Mateus "Blasphemer" Scussel. Drawing on first-wave black metal and Teutonic thrash influences such as Venom, Bathory, and Destruction, they released the EP "Evil Forces Command" in 2018 followed by their debut full-length "At the Darkest Night" in 2020, which was released internationally on Awakening Records (China) and Diabolic Might Records (Germany).
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