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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Chicago's Obskurum carve out black metal that feels at home in an urban landscape — cold, isolating, and relentless, shaped by the Midwest's grey winters and underground metal culture. Formed in 2020, they bring a rawness to the Windy City's extreme scene that refuses to be polished away.
Alkmaar black metal project formed in 2021, an unlikely export from this cheese-market city in North Holland. Their deliberately misspelled name and raw black metal approach signal an allegiance to the underground over accessibility.
Black/doom metal and crust crossover from France's Occitanie region, formed in 2022. Their three-genre approach merges black metal's hostility, doom metal's crushing weight, and crust punk's D-beat aggression.
Milan-based extreme metal band that evolved from death 'n' roll origins into blackened death metal, active since 2018. Their stylistic transformation reflects an increasingly dark and aggressive trajectory.
Norwegian extreme metal band from Stord with a career arc spanning death metal, symphonic black metal, and melodic black metal since 1998. Their stylistic evolution across multiple phases reflects the creative restlessness of the Bergen-area black metal tradition.
Dresden-based blackened post-metal/crust act fusing three aggressive styles since 2017. Saxony's capital has a strong tradition of genre-defying heavy music, and this trio or quartet fits squarely within that experimental ethos.
Umea black/death metal act formed in 2020, adding to northern Sweden's extreme metal output from the Vasterbotten university city. Their sunset-referencing Latin name creates a poetic contrast with the sonic hostility of their blackened death metal.
Burgos-based melodic death/black metal act active since 2014, blending harmonic melodeath with blackened intensity. Operating from the historic Castilian city, their work carries a weight befitting a place steeped in medieval history.
Black metal and ambient project from Portugal, active since 2018. The project blends black metal's hostility with ambient atmospherics.
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