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An Austrian black metal solo project started in 2017 by the musician known as S.M., The Path of All Flesh released a self-titled debut album around the Winter Solstice of that year, featuring four tracks of raw, stripped-down black metal recorded and performed entirely by S.M. The project operates independently and without label affiliation.
The Penitent is a Brussels depressive black metal project by Belgian multi-instrumentalist Déhà, conceived as a rawer and more direct extension of the emotional territory he explored in Ter Ziele and the funeral doom band Slow. The 2019 debut Before It All — a 66-minute, three-track record released on Musical Excrements — was composed during psychotic episodes between 2016 and 2019, with guest vocals from Nokt Aeon of Dymna Lotva.
The Prisoner from Paris craft black metal with the caged fury and isolation their incarcerated name demands since 2012. Over a decade of imprisoned extremity from the French capital has channeled confinement into hostile, atmospheric compositions.
New York black metal duo formed in 2016 by Frank Fisicaro and Sean Gabler, who named the project after Peter Cushing's ominous character in the 1974 Amicus horror anthology From Beyond the Grave. Their debut full-length For Nothing is my Own draws on atmospheric and traditional black metal while keeping one foot in the horror-obsessed cultural tradition that has long defined the genre's American underground.
The Rain is a doom/black metal band from Bielefeld, Germany, formed in 2020. They merge doom metal's crushing weight with black metal's cold intensity.
Blackened heavy metal band from Schaffhausen in northern Switzerland, self-described as delivering blackened heavy metal with conviction. Their 2024 album Greatest Hits was mastered by Arthur Rizk and spans themes from Viking imagery and satanic occultism to sci-fi narratives.
Melodic death metal band from Burgas, founded in 2000 by veterans of the Bulgarian metal underground as a side project that gradually became their primary vehicle. Across four full-lengths—The Dawn of Nothingness (2005), Through Blood and Ashes (2008), The Neverending (2012), and Figment Paradise (2015)—they built a reputation as one of the most consistently compelling death metal acts Bulgaria has produced. The band is widely cited as among the most influential in the country's extreme metal history.
The Satans is a black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2008. They deliver dark, satanic black metal from the Finnish capital.
Seattle atmospheric black metal band formed in 2024, drawing on the region's deep roots in ambient and post-metal to craft expansive, texture-driven black metal that prioritizes atmosphere over pure aggression. One of the newer additions to a Pacific Northwest underground long hospitable to the atmospheric end of the black metal spectrum.
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