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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Smuha conjure grim black metal from Minsk, channeling raw aggression and bleak atmospheres in the tradition of Eastern European black metal. Formed in 2021, they represent the newer wave of Belarusian extremity.
Linkoping's Snailmageddon craft epic black metal from the Ostergotland capital since 2019. Their absurdist name combining gastropod armageddon channels the apocalyptic potential of the seemingly harmless into compositions of atmospheric grandeur.
Snakebearer practice black metal from the northern Finnish city of Oulu, drawing serpent-bearer imagery from astronomical and mythological sources. Active since 2017, they bring ophidian darkness to the Ostrobothnia underground.
Baltimore, Maryland blackened sludge metal outfit formed in 2013, notable for incorporating jazz improvisation into their otherwise abrasive blend of black metal and sludge.
Gothenburg's Snakemass practice black metal from Sweden's metal capital since 2013. Their ophidian-congregation name channels the gathering of serpents into over a decade of atmospheric compositions from the West Coast.
Sneg channel depressive black metal from the Ticino town of Arbedo-Castione, making them a rare extreme metal voice from Switzerland's Italian-speaking south. Their sound dwells in the genre's most anguished corners, favoring raw emotion and bleak atmospheres.
Minneapolis depressive black metal project formed in 2024, channeling the bleak introspection and lo-fi rawness central to the DSBM tradition.
Raleigh, North Carolina black metal band formed in 2020, working within the raw, atmospheric end of the genre as part of the Southeast underground black metal scene.
Pittsburgh blackened psychedelic stoner and doom metal band formed in 2024, combining the murk of stoner doom with black metal's abrasive atmosphere in a hazily oppressive hybrid.
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