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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Extreme Power Metal (2019)
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rosemary (2023)
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Maryland black/speed metal act launched in 2023, fusing the rawness and malevolence of black metal with the full-throttle propulsion of speed metal. A young project out of Maryland's relatively active underground, they lean into the aggressive hybrid style championed by early bands like Venom and Midnight.
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania death metal band formed in 2020, emerging from central Pennsylvania's small but dedicated extreme metal community. Their name and origin point to an act interested in ritual-heavy, old-school death metal aesthetics well removed from urban metal hubs.
Morbid Sorcery is a black metal act from Sarajevo, active since 2018. The band delivers dark, occult-themed black metal from the Bosnian capital, channeling the city's complex history into aggressive compositions.
Brooklyn-based blackened death metal band formed in 2021, forging the kind of dense, suffocating sound that feels at home in New York City's densely packed extreme metal underground. They marry black metal's atmosphere and hostility with death metal's rhythmic brutality.
Hudson County, New Jersey extreme metal band founded in 2016 that has evolved considerably over its existence — starting in death metal and grindcore territory before shifting toward black metal, making them one of the more stylistically restless acts in the New Jersey underground.
Morbid Winter is a black metal band from Saint-Nazaire, France, formed in 2022. They channel frozen black metal darkness from the Atlantic coast.
Standing Rock, New Mexico raw black metal project born in 2020, channeling the lo-fi fury and isolation of the rawer black metal underground from an unusual and geographically remote vantage point. Their location in Standing Rock adds a stark, desert-bound bleakness to the genre's already nihilistic core.
A black metal project from the small Alsatian village of Barembach, Morbidlands channels the dark forests of the Vosges mountains into atmospheric extremity since 2022. The project merges nature-inspired ambience with raw black metal aggression.
Morbidoom trace their roots back to 1993, making them one of the older black metal outfits from the interior of Minas Gerais. The band documented their early phase through the demo tapes Seven Swords of Lucifer (1995) and Ares... The Call of War (1999), drawing on warrior mythology and occult themes before going dormant and eventually returning to activity around 2015.
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