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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Spirit of the Night is a Michigan post-black metal project formed in 2016, fusing the rawness of traditional black metal with expansive, atmospheric arrangements characteristic of the post-black movement.
Spirit Possession is a Portland, Oregon black metal band formed in 2020, known for a frenzied, chaotic approach that recalls the most unhinged corners of second-wave black metal while incorporating dissonant, avant-garde sensibilities.
Spirits of Jigoku is a black metal project from North Carolina formed in 2025, taking its name from the Buddhist concept of hell and channeling malevolent, otherworldly hostility through raw black metal.
Spiritual Demise is a Los Angeles black metal band formed in 2009, delivering cold, misanthropic black metal that contrasts sharply with the city's sunlit surroundings through aggressive songwriting and raw production.
Spiritual Eclipse is a black/death metal band from Modesto, California, formed in 2002, blending the tremolo-picked aggression of black metal with the brutal, down-tuned heaviness of death metal.
Spiritus Vindictus is a raw black metal project from Wilmington, North Carolina, formed in 2023, embracing the genre's most primitive and lo-fi production values to deliver venomous, unadorned black metal.
Spiritwood channel atmospheric black metal from the Finnish underground, building forest-spirit-themed compositions that evoke Finland's vast woodland landscapes. Active since 2015, they bring arboreal mysticism to the Finnish atmospheric black metal tradition.
Spirotin is a Los Angeles band formed in 2021 that merges black metal and metalcore, combining the atmospheric malice and tremolo aggression of black metal with the rhythmic heaviness and breakdowns of metalcore.
Spirus is a Philadelphia black/thrash metal band formed in 1996, one of the city's longer-running underground metal acts, fusing the speed and riff density of thrash with the cold aggression of black metal.
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