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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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Queens-bred and uncompromising, Last Legion fuses black metal's icy hostility with death metal's brutality into a sound that feels like the borough's concrete compressed into sound.
Rochester's Last One on Earth drapes black metal's cold fury in doom's funeral weight, conjuring a sound built for the long, empty winters of upstate New York.
Speed metal delivered at maximum velocity with a thrash backbone, Los Angeles' Last Rites have been tearing up the West Coast scene since 2002.
California-based black metal solo project active since 2011, Lastat operates in the shadows of the genre's most misanthropic traditions — cold, unrelenting, and deliberately obscure.
Lastima were a black metal and grindcore band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The band appeared on the limited compilation Satã Apareça II (Metal Reunion, 2016), a release pressed to 50 copies, with themes exploring apocalypse, anti-religion, and the self-destruction of humanity. They have since split up.
Turkish black metal project formed in 2024, named after pre-Islamic Arabian deities. Their approach channels ancient, pre-monotheistic darkness through black metal's hostile framework.
Swedish raw black metal band from Trollhattan, active since 2009 and channeling lo-fi hostility through over a decade of underground commitment. Their provocative name adds transgressive edge to their raw black metal approach.
Roseburg, Oregon's Latter Day Exploits weld industrial metal's mechanical hostility to black metal's nihilistic fire — a claustrophobic combination built for the digital age's darkest corners.
Blackened grindcore colliding with death metal at full speed, Laughing and Lying produce short, violent bursts of noise designed to disorient and devastate in equal measure.
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