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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.
Connecticut's This White Mountain have been sculpting atmospheric black metal out of Mansfield since 2009, weaving sweeping, nature-inspired ambiance through tremolo-driven darkness in the tradition of the American atmospheric underground.
Thlimmos is an avant-garde black metal project from Greece, formed in 2020. Their Greek name, meaning 'sorrow' or 'affliction,' permeates their experimental approach to black metal.
Thod from Paris craft blackened doom metal whose name evokes ancient, ominous weight since 2023. Their compositions merge black metal's atmospheric hostility with doom's crushing pace from the French capital.
With origins tracing to Tel Aviv in 2016 and listed under a US flag, Thokkian Vortex practice unadorned black metal that speaks a universal language of frost and malice regardless of geography.
A Pennsylvania atmospheric black metal project formed in 2022, Tholin pursue the introspective and expansive side of the genre — dense walls of tremolo and texture serving as vessels for longing and desolation.
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