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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Wernesgrun black metal project from rural Saxony, formed in 2020. Named with an Old Norse term for fate or primal law, their work channels a sense of inevitability through raw, unadorned black metal.
Denver's Orm dwell in the slow, crushing overlap of sludge, drone, and doom metal, crafting music that moves like magma — deliberate, heavy, and indifferent to urgency. The Mile High altitude seems to have had no effect on their desire to go as low and slow as possible.
Oslo raw black metal act formed in 2023, the latest entry in the Norwegian capital's storied black metal lineage. Their plague-evoking name and raw sonic approach honor the genre's primal Norwegian roots while adding fresh hostility.
Colorado's Ormstunga — taking their name from Old Norse for "serpent tongue" — pair symphonic orchestration with ferocious black metal, building music that is simultaneously grandiose and venomous. Their dramatic approach has more in common with Scandinavian theater-black than the American underground.
Black metal project from Friesland, the Netherlands, formed in 2022. The project delivers black metal from the Frisian region of the northern Netherlands.
Black metal project from Östersund in northern Sweden, formed in 2020. Named after a demon from the Testament of Solomon, the project channels cold, occult black metal from the Jämtland mountains.
Ornæmental Shine is a black metal project from Mexico, formed around 2021 and signed to I, Voidhanger Records. The band released their debut full-length Deima Panikon in 2022, a dissonant and avant-garde black metal record exploring esoteric and mystical themes.
Scorching Doom / Black Metal out of Texas.
Black metal and ambient project from the Netherlands, active since 2019. Named after the Tolkien volcano, the project channels dark atmospherics and black metal hostility.
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