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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Bellevue, Washington's Kaphogh have been carving out raw black metal terrain in the Seattle suburbs since 2020, bringing a deliberately rough and abrasive aesthetic to a corner of the Pacific Northwest known more for progressive and experimental sounds. Uncompromising and intentionally primitive.
Rivne-based black metal act, active since 2025 delivering venomous shrieks over walls of distortion. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most resilient metal scenes, the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Dutch black metal and raw black metal act, active since 2017 delivering second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Rooted in the Low Countries' prolific death metal tradition, their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Post-black metal and blackened crust quartet from Wurzburg, active since 2012 and blending dark hardcore, neo-crust, and post-metal into explosive compositions. Their 2015 demo was described by fans as "like a shot in the head" for its raw intensity.
Symphonic black/death metal project from Finland, active since 2013 and layering orchestral grandeur over extreme metal foundations. Their name referencing the ancient Egyptian underworld adds a mythological dimension to their symphonic extremity.
Ukrainian black metal and melodic black metal act, active since 2021 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most resilient metal scenes, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Russian black metal project active since 2021, delivering raw and underground black metal. The project maintains a deliberately minimalist presence, letting the music speak through sparse, unadorned recordings.
Laying down tracks since 2017, this Ankara Black Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within Turkey's bridge between Eastern and Western metal traditions speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Trading in pure metallic intensity, this black metal act from Eskişehir traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2015, they've built a catalog that reflects a scene that fuses Anatolian mystique with Western extremity.
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