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Iowa black metal project.
Anomalie is a black metal project from Leobendorf, Lower Austria, whose output sits within the atmospheric and post-black metal tradition rather than the purely raw underground. Their releases prioritise textured, layered guitar work and shifting dynamics, building lengthy pieces around themes of alienation and natural desolation native to the Central European countryside.
A black/death metal project from Kruibeke in the Scheldt region, named after the ancient Cambrian sea predator, and operating under the Bandcamp handle anomalocarisband. The project is rooted in the Belgian extreme metal underground, with music available through Bandcamp.
Easton, Maryland black metal project with five releases since 2014. Their catalog — from early raw works to the more polished Influencing Machine in 2024 — traces a decade of evolution from the Eastern Shore, an unlikely outpost for atmospheric black metal on the Chesapeake Bay.
Lexington black metal project from the Kentucky underground.
Sharing their name with the legendary Nantes symphonic black metal act of the 1990s, this incarnation of Anorexia Nervosa has been carrying the banner from 2015 onward. Their multi-genre blend of black, death, industrial, and symphonic metal continues the tradition of boundary-pushing extreme music from the Loire-Atlantique capital.
Watertown, Massachusetts black metal project whose 2013 EP Bedroom Songs strips the genre to its most intimate and vulnerable. The ellipsis in the name and the domestic setting of the title suggest a deeply personal approach to extreme music.
Black metal project that migrated from Raleigh to Columbus, Ohio. Their 2020 debut features a Greek-language title — The Forbidden Carnival — hinting at Mediterranean literary influences channeled through American black metal.
Minnesota black metal project whose 2023 EP Resplendent Apparitions at the Dawn trades in atmospheric, nature-obsessed black metal. The lush title contradicts the genre's usual bleakness, suggesting a more transcendent vision of extremity.
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