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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Memphis's HellThrasher collide black metal, death metal, and crust punk into a grimy, feral hybrid since 2017 — the kind of music that sounds like it was recorded in a condemned building and means every second of it. Southern heat filtered through pitch-black nihilism.
Helltripper is a black/thrash metal/punk act from Kaliningrad, Russia, active since 2015 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
Raw Black Metal project from Portugal, forging cold compositions since 2014. Rooted in orthodox black metal, their work channels darkness with unwavering conviction.
Black/thrash metal and punk act from Bern, Switzerland, formed in 2025. Their volatile cocktail of blackened thrash and punk attitude represents the newest wave of Swiss extreme crossover.
Occult blackened death/doom from the Ordo Satanae Imperium collective. Shares members with Nyogthaeblisz and Nexul. Two albums on Iron Bonehead Productions.
Death/black metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, formed in 2017, self-described as 'yet another symptom of our collective decadence.' Their album The Fall of Paradigms delivers intellectually grounded blackened death metal with philosophical themes quoting Oswald Spengler.
Chicago's Helms Deep take a darker road than their namesake, fusing black metal's corrosive atmosphere with thrash metal's velocity since forming in 2023. The result is a siege engine built for underground assault rather than arena glory.
Pagan black metal band from Munster, Germany, active since 2005, influenced by early Enslaved, Ulver, and Helheim. Their debut Gratr and subsequent albums including Frostnacht and the Sol series deliver profound, spiritually reflective pagan metal with ambiguous lyrics addressing materialism and ancestral themes.
Black metal project from Hesse, Germany, formed in 2026. Among the newest black metal projects in the German underground, they channel raw atmospheric darkness from the central German highlands.
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