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Jheit is a blackened death metal project born in Bilbao, Basque Country, sometime in the mid-2010s, focused on obscure and nihilistic extreme metal. Their EP Omega Rising (2017) explores themes of cosmic annihilation and the ethereal existence of mankind across five tracks of intense, apocalyptic metal.
Mississippi project Jiangshi — named after the hopping Chinese vampiric reanimated corpse — drags brutal death and black metal through a peculiar, occult-adjacent lens, producing music that is as atmospheric as it is annihilating since 2017.
Joel Grind is the Portland, Oregon-based solo project of Joel Grind, the founder and primary creative force behind blackened thrash act Toxic Holocaust, launched under his own name in 2012. The project began in the black and speed metal tradition before later exploring synthwave, demonstrating Grind's range as a multi-instrumentalist and producer beyond the constraints of his primary band.
Johann Wolfgang Pozoj is an experimental metal project from Zagreb, Croatia, whose name playfully references Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Their albums Birth of Pozoj and Escape of Pozoj explore avant-garde territory within the Croatian underground metal scene.
John Nash is an Italian metal musician whose heavy, technically proficient compositions showcase instrumental precision and melodic depth. His work channels the diverse influences of the Italian metal scene through carefully crafted, guitar-driven heavy music.
Jon Darkly is a metal and ambient musician from the Netherlands whose work spans the extremes from ambient jazz to black metal. His releases including Lygophilia and Ethereal Foundations demonstrate a willingness to explore the full spectrum of dark, heavy, and atmospheric music.
Jonava is a Lithuanian unblack/death metal project blending black and death metal instrumentation with Christian thematic content. Their five albums from Umbra & Heaven (2019) through Heaven Empyreal (2024) have drawn comparisons to Emperor and Extol, fusing brutal extreme metal with celestial melodic elements.
Portland's most deranged genre collision since 2001, JonnyX and the Groadies fuse symphonic grandeur with black metal spite and grindcore brutality into something genuinely unclassifiable. Orchestral arrangements crash headlong into blastbeat chaos, and somehow it works.
Jordablod is a black metal band from Malmo, Sweden, whose albums Upon My Cremation Pyre and The Cabinet of Numinous Song channel dark, occult atmospherics through the lens of Swedish extreme metal. Their approach to black metal emphasizes ritual atmosphere and esoteric themes.
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