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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Italian black metal project from Veneto, active since 2017 and channeling northeastern Italian darkness. Their cryptic abbreviation adds mystery to their raw black metal approach.
French black metal project from Dunkirk, newly formed in 2025 and channeling raw intensity from the Channel coast. Their approach brings fresh hostility to the French black metal underground.
Swiss black metal band from Sion formed in 2013, crafting atypical, hypnotic, and spiritually virulent black metal with liturgical overtones. Their album 'Descensus Spiritus' conjures spectral atmospheres through extended compositions that evoke unearthly eminence from the void.
British black metal band from Guildford, active since 2013 and channeling raw intensity. Their cryptically vowel-stripped name adds an element of mystery to their black metal approach.
Polish grindcore/death/black metal/noise band from Zabrze, merging multiple extreme styles since 2015. Their vowel-stripped name reflects the abrasive, stripped-down character of their multi-genre noise assault.
Illinois blackened death metal outfit Lycan Rex arrived in 2023 with a feral blend of blast-beat ferocity and riff-driven darkness, treating genre boundaries as obstacles rather than rules. Still early, but already predatory.
French black metal band from Colmar in Alsace, active since 2015 and channeling lycanthropic themes through atmospheric darkness. Their sound draws from the werewolf mythology central to their identity.
Lycanthrope is a black/heavy metal band from Melipilla, in Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region, with occult themes running through their work. They released a rehearsal demo early in their existence and have been documented on the Encyclopaedia Metallum as part of the Chilean underground metal scene.
Swedish black metal project active since 2015, channeling lycanthropic themes through raw intensity. Their werewolf-derived name signals the predatory, transformative character of their black metal.
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