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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Operating under the Oliferne banner from Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, this solo project weaves mid-paced black metal with a contemplative, almost meditative quality. The compositions favor drawn-out tremolo passages and hypnotic repetition over blast-beat fury.
Louisiana's Olivia Tree Darkness blend black metal's corrosive cold with ambient drift, conjuring something atmospheric and deeply unsettling. Formed in 2022, their music feels less like performance and more like ritual — dark, searching, and rooted in the bayou's own gothic mystery.
Atmospheric black metal project from Utrecht, the Netherlands, active since 2018. The project delivers sweeping, contemplative atmospheric black metal from the historic university city.
Munich progressive/melodic black metal project formed in 2021, applying progressive structures and melodic sophistication to a black metal foundation. Bavaria's capital provides an unlikely but increasingly fertile ground for ambitious extreme metal.
Black metal and ambient project from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2014. The project blends black metal's ferocity with ambient's vast, spacious atmospherics under a celestial thematic umbrella.
German black/death metal project active since 2015, known for a chaotic, war-metal-adjacent approach to extreme music. Their output favors relentless speed and sonic density, pushing both genres toward their most unhinged extremes.
Barakaldo pagan black metal act from the Basque Country, active since 2018. Their fusion of pre-Christian Basque themes with black metal's hostility taps into a deep well of regional identity and ancient tradition.
Scorching Black Metal from Hammond, Louisiana (early); Houston, Texas (mid); United States / Colombia (later).
Zaragoza black metal act active since 2015, contributing to Aragon's modest but dedicated extreme metal underground. A decade of output from this inland Spanish city has produced consistently hostile, uncompromising black metal.
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