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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Mother ov Light is a black metal project from Poznań, formed in 2022. The project channels the paradox of light-themed imagery into cold, atmospheric black metal.
Chicago black metal project Motion Failure emerged in 2020 from the city's dense and varied extreme metal underground, channeling urban unease and industrial desolation into uncompromising, cold black metal. The project captures the isolation of city life through a distinctly bleak, confrontational lens.
A black metal project from Kruibeke, East Flanders, Belgium, documented in the Encyclopaedia Metallum as an active independent band. They release music through Bandcamp in the raw and underground tradition of Belgian black metal.
Moujahidine is a raw black metal project from the Netherlands, active since 2017. The project delivers primitive, lo-fi black metal with an intentionally provocative name.
Loveland, Colorado's Mount Cairn channel the raw, unpolished fury of the Rocky Mountain landscape into punishing raw black metal, eschewing production polish in favor of harsh, primitive recordings that feel genuinely inhospitable. Active since 2013, they represent the underground's most uncompromising strain in a state with a strong tradition of extreme metal.
Mountain Ash Bonfire is a depressive black metal band from Yekaterinburg, Russia, formed in 2020. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
Birmingham's Mountain Bastard drag blackened doom metal through the mud and misery of the Deep South, merging the freeze of second-wave black metal with the lumbering hopelessness of funeral doom in a sound that is as much a product of Alabama's heavy music legacy as it is of Scandinavia's. Formed in 2017, they are one of the more severe acts in the regional underground.
Mountain Hermit is a atmospheric black metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2020. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Mountain King is a black metal project from Lucerne, Switzerland, active since 1989, making them one of the longest-running acts in the Swiss black metal underground. Their work draws from the early second-wave tradition with an emphasis on raw, uncompromising atmosphere.
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