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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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Named for a toxic lichen, Santa Cruz's Letharia weave atmospheric black metal and slow-burning doom into something as coastal and creeping as Pacific fog rolling over the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Dutch black metal band active since 2001, representing over two decades of commitment to the genre. Their name, meaning 'injury' in Dutch, captures the wounding, visceral character of their long-running black metal.
Portland's Leviathan operate in the austere zone where black metal meets ambient cold — raw, solitary, and suffocating, their music channels the Pacific Northwest's deep isolation since 2011.
Welsh post-black metal band from Cardiff, formed in 2016 and blending atmospheric beauty with blackened intensity. Their name, meaning 'lightness' or 'levity,' signals the ethereal, elevated quality of their post-black approach.
Shrouded in geographic mystery, Levitator craft raw black metal that floats above easy categorization — their anonymity only sharpens the music's cold, faceless intensity.
Hungarian doom/black metal band from Szeged, formed in 2020 and merging doom's crushing weight with black metal's atmospheric hostility. Their zodiac name signals the balanced duality of their genre fusion.
Lice is a Swedish avant-garde black metal project assembled by Niklas Kvarforth of Shining and guitarist J of Teitanblood, alongside additional contributor Kirill Krowli. The band released their debut full-length Woe Betide You through Season of Mist in 2019, channeling the confrontational experimentalism associated with both parent bands into a form of black metal that resists easy categorization. The project represents a deliberate convergence of two distinct European extreme metal visions.
French black metal band from Marseille, active since 2017 and channeling dark, necromantic themes. Their name, meaning 'lich,' evokes the undead sorcery at the heart of their sound.
Polish experimental black metal band from Sanok, pushing black metal's boundaries through unconventional approaches since 2011. Named after a Slavic demon, their sound bridges folklore with avant-garde experimentation.
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