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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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Black metal project from Perm, Russia, active since 2017. The project delivers cold, hostile black metal from the Ural foothills.
Atmospheric black metal project from Ireland, formed in 2025. The project channels Ireland's ancient landscapes through sweeping atmospheric black metal.
Sicilian black/thrash metal act formed in 2020, drawing on the island's long tradition of extreme metal. Their bone-vault name and Mediterranean island origins add a distinctly southern European character to their blackened thrash assault.
Black/death metal project from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2024. Their bone-themed name accompanies aggressive extreme metal from the Polish capital.
Cincinnati's Ossification channel raw, uncompromising black metal with the grim intensity you'd expect from a band formed in 2023 and already committed to stripping the genre down to its harshest essentials. Cold, relentless, and unapologetically underground.
Out of Elgin, Texas, Ossuary fuse black and death metal into a caustic, venomous strain that feels native to the unforgiving Texas heat. Since 2015, they've embodied the darkness lurking at the edges of the Hill Country underground.
Tours-based Ostium dwells in the harrowing depths of depressive black metal, crafting anguished, slow-burning compositions that prioritize emotional devastation over aggression. Their bleak atmospherics and tormented vocal delivery evoke profound isolation and despair.
Otargos is a French black/death metal band founded in Bordeaux in 2001 by vocalist-guitarist Dagoth and drummer R.F. Lord Mysterium, forging a cold, mechanistic sound that balances industrial metal's austerity against blackened death metal's ferocity. The band built a steady discography across labels including debut Ten Eyed Nemesis (2005), Kinetic Zero (2007), Fuck God—Disease Process (2009), No God, No Satan (2010), and Apex Terror, signed to Season of Mist for later releases. Their thematic preoccupations — chaos, destruction, and the negation of divinity — are rendered through a calculated, unrelenting sonic attack.
Polish black metal project formed in 2023, contributing to the country's seemingly inexhaustible black metal underground. Their Polish name -- meaning 'abyss' -- captures the bottomless depth and darkness of their approach.
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