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The Ninth Gate is a black metal band from Wales, formed in 2023. Named after the Roman Polanski occult thriller, their music channels dark, esoteric atmospheres through black metal from the Welsh underground.
The Occult Project emerged from Maryland in 2019 as a vehicle for corrosive black/death metal that leans into atmosphere as much as aggression. The project fuses the raw hostility of death metal with black metal's spectral menace, arriving at something deliberately unsettling.
Baltimore's The Old Evil arrived in 2022 steeped in pure black metal orthodoxy, drawing on the tradition of cold, misanthropic atmosphere that the genre was built on. Still a young act, they've positioned themselves within a city with deep underground roots and a serious commitment to keeping the form ugly and uncompromising.
The Omega Swarm is an atmospheric death/black metal project from Germany, formed in 2024. They blend atmospheric textures with the aggression of death and black metal.
The One is a black metal band from Kremasti on the island of Rhodes, active since 2005. Their music brings black metal to the Dodecanese islands, channeling the Aegean darkness from one of Greece's most storied locations.
The Onset is a technical death/black metal band from Kiel, Germany, formed in 2016. They combine technical precision with the ferocity of death and black metal.
The Order of Apollyon from Truro in Cornwall deliver black and death metal under a name referencing the angel of the bottomless pit from the Book of Revelation since 2012. Over a decade of apocalyptic compositions from England's Celtic southwest has produced fierce, eschatological extremity.
The Order of Chaos is a black metal band from Thessaloniki, active since 2009. Their oxymoronic name reflects the organized fury of their black metal, bringing structured chaos to the northern Greek underground.
The Owls from Orlová blend sludge metal's crushing weight with the atmospheric expansiveness of post-black metal, creating a dense, layered sound since 2010. Hailing from the industrial Silesian coal region of the Czech Republic, their music mirrors the heavy, overcast landscapes of northeastern Moravia.
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