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Anthology (2022)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious (2022)
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Man Is Myth (Early Demos) (2017)
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Black metal project from Scotland, formed in 2024. Their Norse-mythological name channels Scandinavian-influenced black metal from north of the border.
Black metal/punk band from Łódź, Poland, formed in 2025. Their approach fuses black metal's hostility with punk's stripped-down energy from Poland's third-largest city.
Frigid Melodic Death / Black Metal from Dallas.
Rungholt is a black metal project from Wilhelmshaven on the North Sea coast of Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2023. Named after the legendary medieval Frisian settlement swallowed by a storm surge, the project channels the maritime darkness of the German North Sea coast.
Runkel is a black metal project from Wiesbaden, the Hessian state capital in Germany, formed in 2019. The project delivers atmospheric black metal from the spa city on the Rhine.
Avant-garde black metal band from Rzeszów, Poland, active since 2011. Their approach pushes black metal into experimental, boundary-crossing territory from southeastern Poland.
Ruohtas is a pagan black metal project from Finland, formed in 2018. The project channels Finnish pagan themes through black metal.
Gällivare black metal and ambient project formed in 2013, channeling extreme darkness and atmospheric textures from above the Arctic Circle in Swedish Lapland. Their remote northern origins lend an authentically isolated, frozen quality to their sound.
Raw black metal and ambient project from the tiny Piedmont village of Benevello, active since 2005 and channeling isolation through lo-fi extremity. Their rural origins in the Langhe wine country lend an authentically desolate quality to their sound.
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