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Mainz black metal act active since 2017, named after a geological formation on Mars. Their cosmically themed approach to black metal trades the genre's typical forest-and-frost imagery for something more alien and vast.
Parker, Arizona's Orden splice black metal with punk rawness for something lean, venomous, and stripped of any pretension — a desert-baked approach to a genre often glutted with ceremony. Formed in 2020, they channel aggression rather than atmosphere.
Finnish black/sludge metal/hardcore project formed in 2023, fusing three hostile genres into a single abrasive compound. Their deconstructive approach strips each genre to its most aggressive elements before reassembling them.
Order of Ennead was a Tampa, Florida extreme metal band formed in 2007, releasing two albums on Earache Records — a self-titled debut (2008) and An Examination of Being (2010). Their music occupied territory between black metal and death metal, distinguished by unconventional songwriting that incorporated odd time signatures, clean and ambient passages, and melodic guitar work alongside the expected aggression. The band's willingness to experiment within extreme metal gave their brief catalog a distinctly progressive character unusual for the Tampa death metal scene.
Welsh act Order of Tepes, named after the historical Vlad Tepes, channels vampiric black metal with a raw, underground aesthetic rooted in the Risca scene. Their atmospheric compositions pay tribute to the Romanian-inspired darkness of early black metal.
Northwich's Order of the Black Guard delivers unrelenting black metal with a militant precision and cold, nihilistic atmosphere. Their tight, blast-driven compositions channel the intensity of Marduk and Dark Funeral.
Athens black metal act formed in 2019, drawing on ritualistic and esoteric themes within the Hellenic black metal tradition. Their ceremonial approach to composition distinguishes them from the more chaotic end of the Greek black metal spectrum.
Black/death metal band from Campobasso in Italy's Molise region, formed in 2020. Their militant name accompanies aggressive extreme metal from one of Italy's least-populated regions.
Named for a star in the Serpens constellation, Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin's Order of Unukalhai weave black metal, doom, and post-metal into cosmic, slow-burning compositions that feel genuinely vast. Their music reaches for something distant and cold, like starlight arriving from the deep past.
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