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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Black metal project from Juuka in North Karelia, formed in 2024 with a Finnish name meaning "slag" or "dross." Their sound channels the industrial waste imagery of their name through raw, atmospheric black metal.
Named for the ancient Sumerian underworld, Lexington, Kentucky's Kur has been dealing in blackened death metal since 2021. Their music draws on mythology to frame an unrelenting sonic darkness — grinding, malevolent, and rooted in both genres' most corrosive qualities.
Proof that the underground never sleeps, this black metal act from Belgrade traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2019, they've built a catalog that reflects a scene forged in the crucible of the former Yugoslavia.
When Kurgaall emerged in 2017 from Verbania (Verbano-Cusio-Ossola), 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.
Active in Krasnodar since 2021, this Russian act forges Black Metal built on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Black/death metal band from Katowice in Upper Silesia, active since 2009 and merging both genres' ferocity. Their Polish name referencing burial mounds channels the ancient, sepulchral darkness of Slavic death culture.
Blackened folk metal project from Jarvenpaa near Helsinki, formed in 2024 with a Finnish name meaning "wretched" or "miserable." Their sound weaves Finnish folk elements into blackened metal's dark tapestry.
Raw black metal project from Jyvaskyla, formed in 2020 with a Finnish name meaning "misery" or "poverty." Their lo-fi, stripped-back approach embodies the destitution suggested by their name.
Black metal project from Kotka on Finland's southern coast, active since 2013 with a name referencing the Sumerian underworld. Their ancient Mesopotamian theme adds mythological depth to their decade-plus of Finnish black metal.
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