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St. Louis black/death metal act Rottendom arrived in 2025, bringing a fresh wave of malevolence to Missouri's underground extreme scene. Their sound draws on the darkest currents of both traditions, merging black metal's atmospheric spite with death metal's crushing physicality.
Legendary Greek extreme metal institution from Athens, active since the late 1980s and releasing through Season of Mist since 2006. Rotting Christ pioneered the Hellenic black metal sound and evolved through melodic black metal and gothic metal phases, becoming one of the most internationally recognized metal acts from Greece.
Formed in 2020 somewhere in the southwestern United States, Rotting Coffin deals in raw, primitive black metal with a deliberately obscure and desolate character fitting the region's harsh terrain. Their approach leans into the underground with minimal production and an atmosphere of corrosion.
Rotting Eternity is a German black metal project formed in 2023, exploring themes of decay and endlessness through atmospheric black metal. The project contributes to the prolific German black metal underground.
Atmospheric black/death metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, with roots dating to 2001. Nearly a quarter century of atmospheric extreme metal from Greece's second city.
Rotting Hatred is a black metal band from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on Russia's Sakhalin Island, formed in 2020. Their tracks like 'Revival of Chaos' and 'Cold in Soul' deliver cold, harsh black metal from one of the most remote outposts of the Russian underground scene.
Bestial war death/black metal band from Belém, Pará, Brazil, formed in 2020, releasing the full-length Infernal River of Blood in June 2021 and the demo compilation Return to the Dark Ages later that year, both recorded at GoreZone Home Studio in Belém. The band has accumulated eight releases on Bandcamp spanning demos, live recordings, and studio material.
Portland, Oregon's Rotting Sky has spent over a decade building suffocating soundscapes where funeral doom's glacial pace meets the bleak atmospherics of black metal and ambient drone. Their music is slow, cavernous, and oppressive — less concerned with riffs than with the weight of sustained decay.
Roudansirppi is a Finnish black metal project formed in 2018. Named from Finnish words evoking frozen landscapes, the project channels atmospheric black metal.
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