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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Electronic black metal project from Germany, formed in 2025, fusing the atmospheric darkness of black metal with electronic textures and nihilistic themes. Their approach pushes the genre into futuristic, technologically infused territory.
Minneapolis's Exogenesis channel the cold severity of black metal through a Midwestern lens, forming in 2020 and building a sound as bleak and expansive as a Minnesota winter. Their approach strips the genre down to its harshest elements — raw atmosphere, relentless tremolo, and a sense of isolation baked into every track.
Tampa's Exorcism Wounds evolved from raw black metal into a black/speed/thrash hybrid since forming in 2021, with the Florida city's long legacy of extreme metal clearly shaping their increasingly aggressive trajectory. The shift toward speed and thrash has sharpened their sound into something fiercer and more kinetic.
Black metal act from Sion in Switzerland's Valais region, forging dark, atmospheric extremity since 2007. Their name, Latin for "beginning," marks the starting point of a journey into alpine black metal darkness.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels black metal, heavy metal, and thrash metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2015, based in Stockholm, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
Firmly rooted in black metal, this Italian actfrom Naples delivers dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice without compromise. They've been at it since 2019, and atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Black metal project from Tours in the Loire Valley, France formed in 2020. They channel atonement through harsh black metal.
Black metal project from Belgium, conjuring raw, atmospheric darkness since 2015. Their sound embraces the genre's most austere and unadorned tendencies, stripping black metal down to its essential elements of tremolo picking and blast beats.
Boulder, Colorado's Exsanguinate merge black metal's atmospheric hostility with death metal's physical brutality, creating music since 2017 that draws on both traditions without fully belonging to either. The college town setting belies music that aims for the raw and unmediated.
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