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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Belgian blackened thrash/heavy metal and punk band from Ghent, formed in 2022 and fusing multiple aggressive styles. Their volatile blend merges blackened ferocity, thrash speed, and punk rawness.
Black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2016. The project delivers uncompromising black metal from the Finnish capital.
Limerick black/death metal act from Ireland's western seaboard, formed in 2023. Their emergence adds to a growing wave of extreme metal from Ireland's traditionally overlooked western cities.
Ivanovo black metal project formed in 2023, emerging from a Russian textile city northeast of Moscow. Their Latin carnivorous-order name signals a predatory approach to black metal rooted in ritualistic extremity.
Founded in the late 1990s by Vega Salruas and Eternal Life, Ordo Natum Bamay Crom have been weaving Viking mythology into raw black metal since their early EP "Crom: God and King" (2002). Their 2019 full-length "Imperium Maximus" showcases the band's layered approach, blending tremolo-driven aggression with folk-tinged atmosphere and violin arrangements. Decades of underground perseverance have made them one of the few Brazilian acts to sustain a genuine Viking black metal vision long-term.
Grodno-based atmospheric and depressive black metal project active since 2009, drawing on occult and esoteric themes. Named after the infamous ceremonial magic order, the project pairs bleak, despondent passages with moments of ritual intensity.
Dutch black metal project formed in 2025. The project channels raw, hostile black metal.
Indianapolis punk/black metal hybrid Orga keep things raw and confrontational, stripping the genre down to its most primitive instincts and letting velocity do the work. Formed in 2016, they represent the uglier, more anarchic side of the Midwest underground.
Black/death/industrial metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020. Their ambitious three-genre approach blends extreme metal's ferocity with industrial's mechanical textures.
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