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A product of Ukraine's battle-tested metal underground, this Mykolaiv-based black metal act channels frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Active since 2023, blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Black metal project from Toulon, France, launched in 2021 with releases including "I Hate Therefore I Am" and "Wake Up." The project channels raw, misanthropic black metal aggression in a stripped-down format.
Krists Død is a black metal band from Curitiba, Brazil, formed in 2023. The band released the single "Symfonía Tou Sataná" in 2023, signaling their entry into the extreme underground.
Straddling the line between black metal and death metal, this Russian actfrom Koryazhma fuses HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2008, and their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
When Krivzha emerged in 2022 from Perm, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Omaha, Nebraska black metal act Kriyul surfaced in 2024 from the flatlands, adding a voice to a region with more underground metal activity than its profile might suggest. Raw and newly hatched, their music carries the edge of a project with nothing yet to prove and everything to say.
Krod is a one-man black metal project formed in Santiago, Chile in 2021 by Zabulus Valtakunta, who handles all instruments and vocals in an effort to maintain what he describes as the roots of black metal without adornments that deviate from its anti-Christian essence. The project has been prolific since its founding, releasing four full-lengths in its first three years: Total Destroyer and Rotten Gods Burn in the Abyss of Serpents (both 2021), Black Metal Legion (2022), and Satanas Rex Inferni (2023).
Seattle black metal project Krohm has been cultivating a dark, atmospheric sound since 2007. Long-operating in the shadow of the city's better-known heavy scenes, Krohm pursues a suffocating, introspective strain of black metal that owes as much to funeral doom as it does to the Scandinavian tradition.
Bratislava-based atmospheric black metal and black metal act, active since 2013 delivering venomous shrieks over walls of distortion. Rooted in a scene with deep roots in the former Czechoslovak underground, the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
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