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Post-black metal band from Pechora, Russia active since 2016. Waveflow channels the remote, frozen wilderness of the Komi Republic into atmospheric post-black metal.
French avant-garde black metal band from Caen active since 2009, featuring Decay on drums, Hazard on guitar, Rust on guitar, and Vaerohn on bass. Their experimental approach incorporates violins, theremin, cellos, and unconventional percussions alongside dissonant black metal, with their EP Nam Kha exploring elemental themes of earth, water, and fire.
Black metal, post-hardcore, and screamo band from Liverpool, England active since 2011. We Came Out like Tigers occupies a unique space between raw black metal intensity and the emotional catharsis of screamo.
San Francisco's Weakling occupy a peculiar position in American black metal — despite forming in 2011 under the name of one of the genre's legendary one-album acts, they carry that city's long tradition of underground weirdness and uncompromising darkness. San Francisco has always hosted black metal that bends in unexpected directions, and Weakling operates in that lineage. Whatever their relationship to the original band's shadow, they carry the name as if they own it.
Founded in 2003 by Vetis Monarch in Calgary, Alberta, Weapon pursued a lethal synthesis of black and death metal rooted in occult and left-hand path philosophy. After early recordings made partly in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the band relocated to Edmonton and signed with Relapse Records, releasing the full-length From the Devil's Tomb (2010) and Embers and Revelations (2012) before disbanding in 2013. Their controlled aggression and esoteric conceptual framework set them apart from their Canadian peers.
Denver's Weapönizer have been waging black/thrash war since 2011, bringing the classic Teutonic-style extremity of the form to a city whose altitude seems to sharpen everything into something more dangerous. The umlaut is earned: their music operates in the savage tradition of early Kreator and Sodom filtered through American blackened aggression. Relentless, deliberately raw, and built for maximum hostile impact.
Pagan black metal project from Germany emerging in 2025. Named after the changeling of Germanic folklore, Wechselbalg channels pagan mysticism and nature worship through atmospheric black metal.
Atmospheric and depressive black metal solo project from Memmingen, Germany active since 2006 with an extensive catalog spanning over a decade. Their discography includes albums like Einsamer Winterweg and Wo die Ewigkeit die Zeit berührt alongside splits with Nocturnal Depression, Moloch, and Wintergeist.
Black metal project from Bremen, Germany formed in 2016. Weeping Willow channels sorrowful darkness and atmospheric bleakness through black metal from the Hanseatic city.
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