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A Portland, Oregon black metal act founded in 2020, Thirsting Altar deal in cold, ritualistic darkness without ornamentation — straightforward in conviction but deliberate in its atmosphere of dread.
Thirsting Ampoule emerged in 2025 as a raw black/death metal project, trading in corrosive production and savage extremity that keeps both genres at their most uncompromising.
Greensboro, North Carolina's Thirteenth Witness blend the aggression of death metal with black metal's icy atmosphere and thrash metal's relentless momentum, forming a caustic and multi-pronged attack launched from the Carolina underground.
Thirty Aethyrs from Manchester craft progressive and black metal named after the thirty ethereal realms of Enochian mysticism since 2011. Over a decade of esoteric compositions from the northwest has explored each mystical plane through technically ambitious extremity.
Black metal project from Palhoça, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2019 by musician Necromantick, who performs all instruments. The band released the EP Isöken on January 12, 2020 — five tracks including "Drakens Blod," "Black Flames Rising from the Soil," and "Call of Death's Domain" — followed by the album Tales of Witchcraft in April 2020. A subsequent lineup addition brought in Darkned Werewolf alongside Necromantick.
Buffalo, New York's This Eternal Cold occupy the brutal overlap between black metal's corrosive atmosphere and deathcore's bone-crushing breakdowns, a combination as bleak as the city's winters.
THIS GIFT IS A CURSE formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 2008, founded by vocalist Jonas A. Holmberg and drummer Johan Nordlund, with their debut EP recorded at the legendary Sunlight Studios with producer Tomas Skogsberg in 2010. The band works in a cataclysmic fusion of black metal, sludge, and hardcore, constructing songs that balance ferocity with a suffocating, doom-laden atmosphere. Full-lengths I, Guilt Bearer (2012), All Hail the Swinelord (2015), A Throne of Ash (2019), and Heir (2025, released on Season of Mist) have steadily built their standing in the European extreme underground.
This Is Past is a psychedelic black metal band from Athens, active since 1999. With over two decades of exploring the intersection of psychedelia and black metal, they are among the more veteran experimentalists in the Greek underground.
Salt Lake City's This Perfect Day have been operating since 2013 at the intersection of raw black metal and post-black metal's introspective expansiveness, drawing on the stark landscape of Utah's high desert for atmosphere.
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