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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Black metal project from Padua, Italy, formed in 2023. Their Italian name, meaning 'mange' or 'scab,' signals the diseased character of their black metal from the Veneto city.
Formed in Los Angeles in 2017, Rognir deal in bleak, lo-fi black metal that feels out of step with the sun-bleached city around them. The project channels Scandinavian second-wave aesthetics through a distinctly isolated Californian lens, all brittle riffs and frost-bitten atmosphere.
Rogthorn is a German black metal project formed in 2021, delivering raw and atmospheric black metal. The project operates from the depths of the German underground.
Rohavart is an atmospheric black metal project from Erlenbach am Main in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, formed in 2020. The project weaves expansive, atmospheric soundscapes into black metal from the Main river valley.
Rohgarr is a raw black metal and punk project from Dresden, Germany, formed in 2025. The project merges the lo-fi ferocity of raw black metal with punk energy from the Saxon capital.
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Black metal/hardcore crossover from Forlì-Cesena in the Emilia-Romagna region, formed in 2019. Their approach fuses black metal's hostility with hardcore's confrontational energy.
Romantik is a black metal project from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2017. The project channels dark atmospheric black metal from the Swedish capital, adding to Stockholm's diverse underground metal landscape.
Ronces is an atmospheric black metal project from France, active since 2013. Named after the French word for 'brambles,' the project channels nature-inspired atmospheric black metal.
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