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Seuchen ("Plagues") practice black metal from the German underground, their plural-form pestilence name suggesting an even more widespread contagion of darkness than their near-namesakes. Active since 2020, they channel the genre's most misanthropic impulses.
Named after the French phrase for 'alone in the dark,' this Brest-based project has crafted atmospheric post-black metal since 2022. Seul dans le Noir channels Brittany's windswept coastal melancholy into shimmering tremolo passages and introspective soundscapes.
Marseille's Seules les Mortes, whose name translates to 'only the dead women,' emerged in 2019 with a post-black metal vision steeped in feminist and literary themes. Their compositions layer ethereal textures over black metal's abrasive foundation, reflecting the Mediterranean port city's cultural complexity.
Black metal band from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, centered on multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Juliano Scharf alongside vocalist Sabbaoth (Evandro Siebert). The band released the demo Welcome Radiation in 1997, with all songs written by Scharf except the track Torment to Borodin, and later contributed the track The Worst of Enemies to the compilation Stronger than Before before eventually splitting up.
Formed in 2022 in Fayetteville, Arkansas, Seven Hollows bring an expansive and melancholy vision to atmospheric black metal, weaving glacial guitar textures and bleak ambient passages across a backdrop of Ozark isolation. Despite being a young project, their approach to the genre feels deliberate and deeply absorbed in the introspective tradition of the form.
Seven Portals channel black metal from Hanover, their name suggesting dimensional gateways to darkness. Formed in 2021, they bring esoteric black metal to the Lower Saxon capital.
Santa Barbara, California's Seventh Circle occupy a darkly syncretic extreme metal space, weaving together the bleakness of black metal, the heaviness of death metal, and the grinding weight of doom into a single suffocating whole. Active since 2008, they've developed a reputation for uncompromising, multi-dimensional heaviness that refuses easy categorization.
Severed Boy is a Boston, Massachusetts project formed in 2021 that dissolves the lines between black metal, death metal, and funeral-paced doom. Their Bandcamp presence reflects an underground one-person or small-band aesthetic, channeling bleakness through a dense, multi-genre lens.
Severed Soul is a black metal act from Dothan, Alabama, formed in 2023 and operating in one of the more unlikely corners of the American South for the genre. Their recent emergence places them in the growing wave of Southern underground black metal, bringing raw atmospheric darkness to a region better known for doom and sludge.
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