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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Starless Aeon blast through death, thrash, and black metal from Dresden, combining three of extreme metal's most aggressive strains into a single dark force. Their cosmic void name and triple-genre approach suggest compositions of vast, unrelenting intensity.
An American atmospheric and ambient black metal project formed in 2019, Starless Domain constructs immersive, expansive soundscapes built on layered guitars, minimalist drone, and stark black metal aesthetics.
Depressive black metal project from Deland, Florida, active since 2009, Starless Night pursues the introspective, desolate end of the genre with raw production and emotionally bleak compositions.
West Lafayette, Indiana atmospheric black metal project founded in 2021, Starlit Melancholy channels Midwestern isolation into wintry, shimmering tremolo-driven soundscapes.
Staroslovanska Pitka channel pagan black metal and punk from Koprivnice, fusing Slavic pagan themes with raw, aggressive energy. Their Czech-language name (roughly "Old Slavic Drinking Session") suggests a celebratory, heathen spirit that infuses their music.
Arizona progressive black metal band formed in 2015, Stars Eat Worlds merges the dissonance and aggression of black metal with progressive song structures that prioritize atmosphere and compositional depth.
Ljubljana's Stars Will Burn Your Flesh have been crafting atmospheric black metal since 2006. Two decades from the Slovenian capital, their threatening cosmic name has produced one of the longest-running atmospheric black metal projects in the Balkans.
Austin, Texas doom/black metal project formed in 2021 under the name Starshine, blending the glacial weight of doom metal with black metal's atmospheric tension in a project rooted in personal expression.
New Haven, Connecticut doom/sludge/black metal band formed in 2024, Starvation combines the dragging heaviness of sludge, the bleakness of black metal, and the oppressive weight of doom into a suffocating sonic whole.
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