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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Spokane, Washington's Shrieks of the Impaled have navigated blackened death metal since 2012, combining the atmospheric menace of black metal with death metal's raw brutality in material that reflects the Pacific Northwest's fertile underground extreme scene.
Highland Charter Township, Michigan's Shrine of Broken Glass, formed in 2021, blend melodic black metal sweep with deathcore's crushing low-end architecture, constructing a layered and aggressive hybrid that pushes both genres toward their outer edges.
Ankara's Shrine of Denial deliver blackened death metal from the Turkish capital since 2025. Their name of a temple built on refusal channels the sacred architecture of rejection into compositions of freshly-minted extremity.
Shrine of Maggots channel black/thrash metal from North Rhine-Westphalia, their putrid name setting the tone for music that revels in filth and aggression. Formed in 2024, they bring bestial extremity to the western German underground.
Milwaukee black metal project active since 2000 with a prolific catalog that ranges across raw, atmospheric, and folk-inflected territory — a relentless one-man operation that has accumulated dozens of releases over its long run in the American underground.
Shroud of Distress blend depressive black metal with shoegaze from Saxony-Anhalt, creating a hazy, emotionally overwhelming hybrid that channels despair through walls of reverb-drenched guitar. Active since 2012, they've been pioneering the blackgaze crossover in eastern Germany.
Indianapolis doom/death/black metal band formed in 2017, blending the sepulchral weight of funeral doom with blackened dissonance and death metal's low-end aggression. Their multi-genre fusion reflects an Indianapolis underground scene willing to blur stylistic boundaries.
Washington State progressive black/death metal act formed in 2017, weaving complex song structures and shifting dynamics through a foundation of blackened aggression and death metal intensity. The progressive element gives their compositions an unpredictable, sprawling character.
Bloomington, Indiana atmospheric black/doom metal band formed in 2013, drawing on the desolate naturalism of the Midwest to build slow-moving, expansive compositions that balance glacial doom passages with black metal's windswept atmospheric sweep.
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