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Lenhador is a black metal band from Não-Me-Toque, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2005. The band blends raw black metal with crust and punk elements, evidenced across three releases: The Fall of the Wood (2005), Crescente Entropia Universal (2007), and The Pope Smokes Dope (2010), the last issued through Cauterized Productions. Their discography includes covers of Regurgitate and Ildjarn, reflecting a wide-ranging underground sensibility.
British black metal band from Nottingham, formed in 2021 and channeling dark, leprous imagery through raw intensity. Their sound embraces black metal's hostile atmosphere with an emphasis on diseased, decaying themes.
Winchester, Virginia's Leper Lord have been working the rawer edges of black metal since 2014, favoring atmosphere over production gloss and despair over spectacle. The Shenandoah Valley setting bleeds into music that sounds both isolated and ancient.
Annandale, Virginia's Lepidopteran have been one of the DC-area black metal underground's more curious fixtures since 2008, taking the genre's dissonance in directions that suggest something more metamorphic than conventional. Sixteen-plus years in, their evolution remains unresolved — intentionally so.
Serbian black metal/grindcore band from Smederevska Palanka, merging blackened fury with grinding brevity since 2022. Their volatile fusion combines black metal's atmosphere with grindcore's savage speed.
British sludge/black metal/crust band from Bristol, fusing three strains of aggression since 2014. Their volatile blend of sludge weight, black metal fury, and crust punk rawness creates a uniquely abrasive sound.
Belarusian black metal project from Gomel exploring themes of philosophy, transgression, absurdism, and nihilism since 2016. Their releases, titled in Russian, channel raw black metal aggression through a lens of existential and philosophical darkness.
French melodic black metal project from Orleans, formed in 2024. Their name, meaning 'The Bastards of the King,' channels historical rebellion through melodic black metal's aggressive elegance.
Two-plus decades deep in the Oxnard underground, Lesion grind out a raw hybrid of thrash and death metal that carries the working-class grit of Southern California's surf-and-steel coast.
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