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Rhythmic Ceremonial Ritual is a black metal project from Sankt Egidien in Saxony, Germany, formed in 2015. The project's ritualistic name reflects a ceremonial approach to black metal from the Zwickau district of western Saxony.
Black/death/thrash metal quartet from Waidhofen an der Ybbs in Lower Austria, founded in 2009 and radically overhauled in 2015. Their debut full-length concept album Ascheland (2018, Studio Hundert), depicts the total downfall of humanity across its runtime, following an early 2012 demo recorded in Vienna.
Black metal project from Nottingham, England, formed in 2020. The project channels hostile black metal from the East Midlands city.
Tulsa, Oklahoma's Ridden have been carving out a black metal identity in an unlikely corner of the country since 2017, proving that the Great Plains can generate darkness as effectively as Scandinavia ever did. Their sound is unadorned and stripped of any post-black metal softness — raw, misanthropic, and committed to the genre's most orthodox values. Oklahoma's isolation gives Ridden a particular bleakness that feels genuine rather than performed, the work of a band forged far from any established metal scene.
Black/thrash metal and punk band from Haugesund, Norway, formed in 2024. Their militaristic name accompanies aggressive blackened thrash from the west Norwegian coast.
Ride for Revenge is an experimental black metal band from Lappeenranta in southeastern Finland, active since 2017. The band pushes the boundaries of black metal with experimental approaches from the Karelian border region.
Rienaus is a black metal band from Espoo/Helsinki, Finland, active since 2010. Named after the Finnish word for 'blasphemy,' the band delivers raw black metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Cincinnati's Riesenwolf — German for 'giant wolf' — have been forging a black/heavy metal hybrid since 2022 that draws on the epic qualities of traditional heavy metal while blackening the edges with tremolo-picked menace and harsher vocal work. The Cincinnati underground doesn't always get its due nationally, but Riesenwolf represent a strain of Midwestern metal that combines the grandeur of classic metal songwriting with genuinely extreme sonic aggression. Two years in, they sound like a band already fully formed in their vision.
Rietas is a black metal band from Tornio at the Finnish-Swedish border, formed in 2020. The band channels cold black metal from the northernmost reaches of the Gulf of Bothnia.
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