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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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Heresyarch is a black metal project from Zhukovsky, Russia, active since 1998 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Russia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
An uncompromising pagan black metal act from the finnish underground, active since 2025. Rooted in orthodox black metal, their work channels darkness with unwavering conviction.
Heretic Behest is a raw black metal project from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, active since 2018 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Black metal project from Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2022. Their occult-themed sound channels ritualistic black metal darkness from the Bavarian underground.
Based in Caltanissetta, this symphonic black metal project has been a fixture of Italy's underground since 2019. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Atlanta's Heretical Rites blend blackened death metal into something caustic and ceremonial since their 2024 inception, approaching the genre's darkest traditions with a sense of ritual purpose. Georgia's underground gains a genuinely malevolent new voice.
Santa Fe, New Mexico's Heretical Sect bring a desolate, high-desert black metal aesthetic to the genre since 2019 — sparse, harsh, and imbued with the particular loneliness of the American Southwest. Their sound is as dry and unforgiving as the landscape.
Death/black metal band from Leon, Spain, active since 2008. Their fierce blend of death and black metal aggression comes from the historic medieval kingdom's capital.
Heretique is a thrash/black/death metal band from Gliwice, Poland, formed in 2009. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
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