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Boston's VoidKeeper arrived in 2022 with a blackened death metal sound that leans hard into controlled chaos — blastbeat intensity checked by moments of eerie, harmonically unsettling riffwork. The New England setting feels fitting; there's a cold, grey hostility to what they do that puts atmosphere ahead of brutality for brutality's sake. A young band already operating with unusual compositional focus.
Voidkosm is a blackened death metal project from Chemnitz, Germany, formed in 2025. They fuse the chaos of blackened metal with death metal's brutality.
Voidkush is a black/death/doom metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2018. They merge the crushing weight of doom with black and death metal's ferocity for a triple-threat of heaviness.
Voidmïlker is a black metal band from Santiago, Chile, active since 2023. The band released their debut full-length "Labyrinthical" in July 2023, preceded by two singles — "Decades" and "Birth of Trepidation" — all released in the same year.
Tampa, Florida has a death metal legacy that looms over everything, but Voidrium staked their claim in 2023 playing raw, atmospheric black metal — a deliberate counter-current in a city synonymous with surgical brutality. There's an obsidian coldness to their approach, all harsh treble and howling frost, leaning into the corpse-paint orthodoxy of the genre with conviction. The Tampa provenance makes them a genuine outlier, which is exactly the point.
Makiivka's Voids Dweller delivers raw black metal from the Donetsk region, embracing lo-fi production and primitive recording techniques as essential elements of their aesthetic. Their uncompromising approach strips the genre to its most hostile, atmospheric core.
Voidstalker is a nihilistic black metal project from Carinthia, Austria, formed in 2018 and rooted in old-school black metal aesthetics. Their releases include a limited-edition split cassette with Plaguepreacher, recorded at Sounddelusion Studio, with only 100 hand-numbered copies pressed worldwide.
Seattle's Voidthrone have been active since 2016 in the black/death metal space, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's rich tradition of extreme underground music while avoiding its more atmospheric tendencies. Their sound prioritizes aggression over ambiance — a raw, war-metal-adjacent intensity that treats melody as a secondary concern to punishment. A decade into Seattle's post-grunge recovery, they're proof the city's underground still has venom.
Madison, Wisconsin's Voidwalker formed in 2020 and work in post-black metal — a genre built on the tension between black metal's harshness and a more expansive, emotionally open approach to composition. There's a shoegaze-adjacent quality to how they layer tremolo and texture, where the aggression serves a larger atmospheric purpose rather than existing as an end in itself. They're doing the genre's work with sincerity and without the irony that sometimes dilutes it.
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