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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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Black metal band from Izhevsk, Russia, formed in 2018, channeling the cold forests of Udmurtia through raw black metal. They bring over seven years of darkness from the Ural foothills.
Black metal and punk band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2021, merging the darkness of black metal with punk's raw DIY energy. Their stylized name evokes eternal torment matching their abrasive sound.
Pyny is a Mexican black metal comedy project, also known as The Pyny Collective, formed in 2019. The band plays black metal and a wide variety of other styles with an emphasis on parody and absurdist humor. Notable releases include the full-length "Meet Pyny!" (2020) and "PynyOne" (2021).
Richmond, Virginia's Pyramid Mass fuses blackened sludge with progressive ambition, layering dissonant riffing and scorched-earth atmosphere over complex song structures that reward patient listening from a Richmond scene long comfortable with sonic extremity.
An El Paso black metal act formed in 2018, Pyre operates at the harsh, stripped-down end of the genre, conjuring cold and unrelenting tremolo-driven savagery from the Chihuahuan desert borderlands.
Black metal and hardcore band from Paris, France, formed in 2016, merging the darkness of black metal with hardcore's confrontational energy. They create a potent crossover from the French capital.
A raw black metal project out of Pittsfield, New Hampshire, Pyrgosia emerged in 2023 with a grim and isolated character fitting the rural New England wilderness, channeling traditional black metal harshness with little concession to modernity.
Brooklyn's Pyrolatrous channel the blackened melodic death metal tradition into a modern, technically precise form, threading scorched atmosphere and lead-driven melody through aggressive riffwork that draws on both Scandinavian melodeath and raw black metal since 2016.
Lexington, Kentucky's Pyromancer deal in the murky crossfire of black and death metal, conjuring sulfurous, cavernous extremity from the heart of the South with a sound that is as filthy in production as it is unrelenting in attack since 2015.
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