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The Blind Leading The Blind (2019)
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Blood Eagle (2017)
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Architects Of A New Weave (Deluxe Album) (2026)
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Sikaryus practice black metal from Bochum, drawing their name from the ancient Jewish dagger-wielding assassins (Sicarii). Active since 2017, they bring historical menace to the Ruhr Valley's black metal scene.
Chicago's Silaera blend the sweeping, textured approach of atmospheric black metal with post-metal's dynamic range and patient song construction, producing immersive and emotionally resonant heavy music since 2019.
Silberbach ("Silver Stream") channel black metal from the tiny Franconian village of Sachsen bei Ansbach, their pastoral German name contrasting with the genre's harsh intensity. Active since 2014, they bring rural Bavarian atmosphere to their atmospheric output.
One-man cinematic folk black metal project from Leuven, launched in 2024, whose releases "Towards the Chimaera" and "Where Our Coils Collide" blend atmospheric black metal with folk instrumentation and cinematic grandeur. The project's name references sacred groves of Celtic religion, reflecting a deep engagement with pagan mythology.
Cleveland's Silence the Desolated began with noise and ambient experimentation before moving into black metal, a trajectory that informs a sound where atmosphere and abrasion coexist in equal measure since 2025.
Silent Leges Inter Arma ("Laws Are Silent Among Arms," from Cicero) practice black metal from Rostock on the Baltic coast, filtering classical Latin philosophy through extreme metal's confrontational lens. Active since 2012, they bring an intellectual dimension to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern's black metal scene.
Silent Millenia craft symphonic black metal from the Finnish underground, layering orchestral grandeur over black metal's harsh frameworks. Formed in 2024, they bring millennial scope to the Finnish symphonic extreme scene.
Silent Thoughts channel depressive black metal from the Saxon village of Hilbersdorf, exploring the genre's most introspective and anguished emotional territory. Their rural eastern German base lends an isolated quality to their contemplative darkness.
A Los Angeles black metal project formed in 2025, Silent Thunder operates in ambient black metal territory — the kind of expansive, atmospheric sound that trades raw ferocity for long, immersive passages built more on texture and tension than speed.
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