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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fairfax, California's Siphoner is a young black metal project formed in 2024, working in the Bay Area's fertile underground scene and drawing on the raw, unadorned traditions of atmospheric and orthodox black metal.
A California atmospheric black/death metal act active since 2015, Sire melds the sweeping, post-influenced atmospherics of atmospheric black metal with the crushing brutality of death metal, crafting dense and layered sonic environments.
New York's Sire Languish is one of the newest acts in this index, formed in 2025, pushing experimental black and death metal into unconventional territory with an approach that resists genre rigidity from the outset.
Siren channel black metal from Bergisch Gladbach in the Rhineland, their mythological name evoking the dangerous allure of their dark compositions. Active since 2018, they add to the rich tapestry of North Rhine-Westphalia's black metal underground.
Des Moines post-black metal project formed in 2021 that blends atmospheric shimmer and shoegaze textures with the rawer edges of second-wave black metal. Their sound leans toward the introspective and expansive, letting reverb-drenched guitar work carry emotional weight over blasting rhythms.
Spokane, Washington band formed in 2020 operating in the space between melodic black metal and outright death metal, combining riff-driven aggression with the atmospheric sweep that characterizes the Pacific Northwest's underground black metal scene. Their sound is dense and forward-moving, leaning on melodic guitar leads to cut through the harshness.
Memphis, Tennessee black metal project formed in 2014, channeling the isolation and darkness of that city's blues-haunted landscape through a purely black metal lens. Operating in a Southern state not typically associated with the genre, Sivad carries an outsider intensity that suits black metal's individualist ethos.
Blackened death metal band formed in 2008 out of Maricopa and the Ak-Chin Indian Community in Arizona, fusing black metal's cold fury with death metal's pulverizing weight in the stark desert Southwest. Their geographic origins — an indigenous community on the southern Arizona plains — give their darkness a particular edge of outsider extremity.
Sjerp evolved from dark ambient origins into a hybrid of black metal and dark ambient, creating atmospheric compositions that blur the line between metallic aggression and electronic soundscaping. Their shifting, genre-fluid approach makes them one of the Czech underground's more experimental voices.
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