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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Realms of Darkness is a black metal band from Mikkeli in eastern Finland, formed in 2021. The band channels dark atmospheric black metal from the Finnish lake country.
Reap of Evil is a black metal band from Huddersfield in West Yorkshire, England, formed in 2021. The band delivers black metal from the Pennine mill town in northern England.
Rebel Souls is a death/black metal band from the Chemnitz/Spora area in Saxony, Germany, formed in 2017. The band fuses death and black metal intensity from the industrial heartland of eastern Germany.
Rebellion is a black/death metal band from Northeim in Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2015. The band delivers extreme metal from the southern Lower Saxon hill country.
Black metal project originally from Ireland, later relocated to Reykjavík, Iceland, active since 2006. Nearly two decades of black metal across two Nordic-adjacent outposts represent considerable dedication to atmospheric extreme metal.
Black metal project from Trondheim, Norway, active since 2016. The project delivers black metal from Norway's historic Viking capital.
From the small town of Byesville, Ohio, Reclusa have built one of the more genuinely hybrid sounds in the American underground since 2017 — death/doom heaviness threaded through with black metal cold, industrial noise, and dark ambient texture. The isolation of their rural Ohio setting comes through in music that feels removed from any scene, answering only to its own grim logic.
Red Abyss is a German black/death metal project formed in 2016, exploring the extremes of both genres. The project channels relentless black and death metal aggression from the German underground.
Red Forest is a depressive black metal and ambient project from Valencia, Spain, active since 2014. The project channels melancholic, atmospheric black metal from the Mediterranean coast of eastern Spain.
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