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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Skeletal Mass is a Brooklyn, New York black metal act formed in 2023, entering a borough with a crowded extreme metal underground and staking their claim with what appears to be a stripped-down, orthodox approach to the genre. Young as they are, they represent the continuing health of New York City's grassroots black metal scene.
Originally from Ohio, now Austin-based. Blackened thrash perfection.
A young black metal project emerging from Portland, Oregon's underground in 2022, Skeletorture leans into raw, uncompromising darkness — a city known for its fertile extreme metal scene providing fertile ground for this newly formed act.
Connecticut's Skeltima launched in 2023 with a sound that marries the grim atmosphere of black metal to the muscular directness of traditional heavy metal, staking out a place in the state's emerging extreme metal scene.
Skeuha practice black metal from Zurich, emerging in 2025 as one of the newest voices in the Swiss black metal scene. Their early work channels the genre's raw intensity through a fresh perspective.
Skigis practice black metal from Jyvaskyla, channeling the genre's dark intensity from the central Finnish Lakeland. Active since 2017, they bring forest-dwelling darkness to the Keski-Suomi underground.
Skilfingar blend folk and viking metal with black and death metal influences from Chemnitz, creating a multi-layered sound that draws on both Norse mythology and extreme metal aggression. Active since 2014, they bring pagan themes to the Saxon metal scene.
Savage Death / Black Metal with Punk influences from Texas (early); San Diego, California (later).
This elusive raw black metal entity, active since 2021, forgoes location and commercial accessibility in favor of lo-fi abrasion and atmospheric severity — the kind of deliberately obscured project that treats underground anonymity as an aesthetic stance.
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