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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Moonknight is a Louisville, Kentucky black metal band formed in 2016, committed to the genre's core aesthetic of darkness and cold menace. Louisville is not a typical black metal city, which tends to give underground acts there a certain self-reliant intensity.
Moonkult is a black metal band from the Espoo-Hyvinkää area of Finland, active since 2012. They channel ritualistic black metal darkness from the Finnish underground.
Moonlantern is a San Diego raw black metal and dungeon synth project formed in 2018, occupying the atmospheric, lo-fi end of the underground where raw black metal and ambient synth work share the same physical and spiritual space. The dungeon synth dimension sets them apart from pure raw black metal acts, suggesting a project as interested in solitary introspection as in harsh noise.
Moonlight Butchery is a San Antonio, Texas black metal act formed in 2014, representing the Lone Star underground's longstanding commitment to extreme metal. Their name suggests a violent, visceral take on the genre, uninterested in atmospheric subtlety.
Moonlight Romantica is a Connecticut raw black metal project formed in 2024 that weaves gothic influence through its harsh lo-fi framework, creating music that is ugly and beautiful in roughly equal measure. The gothic element gives their sound a melodic, romanticist pull that works in tension with the rawness of the production.
Moonlight Seance is a black metal project from Petřvald in Silesia, formed in 2022. The project channels nocturnal occultism into atmospheric black metal from the Czech-Polish borderlands.
Moonlight Spirit is a Virginia black metal project formed in 2024, part of the ongoing wave of new underground acts committed to the genre's traditional aesthetic of grimness and cold atmosphere. Their location in Virginia puts them in a region with a quietly active black metal underground.
Moonlit Fortress is a raw black metal project from Fredericksburg, Virginia, formed in 2025. Among the newest acts in the underground, they occupy a tradition that prizes austerity, noise, and rejection of polish — music that sounds like it was recorded in a basement because it was.
A New Hampshire atmospheric black metal project founded in 2024, weaving cold, expansive soundscapes into the raw aggression of traditional black metal — emphasizing mood and texture as much as ferocity.
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