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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Sofia-based black metal project formed in 2022, adding to the Bulgarian capital's growing roster of atmospheric extremity. Their output channels the raw intensity of black metal through a contemporary Bulgarian perspective.
Sventevith is a Houston, Texas black metal band formed in 2025, taking its name from Behemoth's debut album and forging a raw, early black metal sound within the Texas underground.
Kraków's Sverblôd practice black metal from the ancient capital since 2016. Their archaic-Nordic-inflected name and Kraków's medieval atmosphere channel ancient Scandinavian darkness through Polish cultural depth.
Sverdkamp is a raw black metal band from Atlanta, Georgia, formed in 2014, dealing in the lo-fi, punishing aesthetics of the raw black metal underground with uncompromising intensity.
Sverker is a Newark, Ohio depressive black and gothic metal project formed in 2020, blending the anguished minimalism of depressive black metal with gothic atmosphere and introspective darkness.
Svetovid is a San Francisco, California black metal band formed in 2018, named for the Slavic god of war and divination, playing atmospheric and fierce black metal from the Bay Area underground.
Svoghast is a black metal project from Baltimore, Maryland, formed in 2019, crafting raw and atmospheric black metal in the tradition of the American underground.
Miskolc's Svoid have been channeling black metal from northeastern Hungary since 2011. Their name suggests a void prefixed with darkness, and their sound delivers accordingly bleak and cavernous atmospheres.
Svolterr is an Indiana black/death metal and noise act formed in 2024, blending abrasive extremity with dissonant, chaotic textures in the vein of modern bestial underground acts.
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