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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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A deliberately obscure American black metal outfit, Old Cave operate in the shadows with a rawness that feels genuinely ancient rather than performative. Since 2009, their music has suggested isolation and intent in equal measure.
Old Coffin Spirit deal in the slowest and most suffocating end of funeral doom, lacing it with black metal atmospherics to produce a sound steeped in death, darkness, and drifting spirits. Their 2015 debut, Out of the Dark...Into the Light, lays out seven tracks of cavernous, crawling misery, with song titles like "Ancient Soul" and "Nocturnal Fog" telegraphing exactly the mood they're after.
Darlington's Old Corpse Road weaves English folklore and supernatural legend into an elaborate tapestry of black metal, folk instrumentation, and symphonic grandeur. Their concept-driven albums explore the haunted landscapes and ghostly tales of northern England with remarkable atmospheric depth.
Black metal project from Budakeszi, Hungary, active since 2015. The project channels black metal from the town in the Buda Hills near Budapest.
Polish black metal project formed in 2022. The project channels raw, fiery black metal.
Raw black metal project from Vinnytsia, Ukraine, active since 2012. Over a decade of lo-fi, abrasive black metal from the central Ukrainian city.
Black metal project from Penmarch, a town at the tip of Brittany, France, formed in 2023. Named after the korrigans of Breton folklore — mischievous fairy-like creatures — the project channels Celtic mythology through black metal from France's westernmost point.
From the Sierra Nevada foothills of Placerville, Old Moon bring a raw, rurally-inflected black metal that feels rooted in landscape as much as tradition. Since 2020, they've channeled California's wilder, more isolated geography into cold and unforgiving darkness.
German black metal band from Saarbrucken, formed in 2020 and channeling ancient pagan themes through raw intensity. Their name signals the old, pre-Christian character of their Saarland black metal.
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