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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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A 2024 German black-death metal project, Plagueblade wields the two genres like twin weapons — one atmospheric, one bludgeoning. Their nascent output promises the kind of pestilent ferocity their name demands.
Dresden's Plaguecaster arrived in 2025 channeling black-death metal from the Baroque splendor of Saxony's capital. The tension between the city's architectural beauty and the project's sonic ugliness creates a compelling artistic contradiction.
A 2024 German black metal project, Plaguehound hunts through the genre's most feral territory with lean, predatory compositions. Their emergence adds another voice to the country's ever-expanding network of underground black metal.
San Diego's Plaguelands operates in the melancholy borderlands of depressive and post-black metal — sprawling, introspective compositions that find beauty and desolation wound together like smoke.
Black, death, and speed metal band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2015, storming through the Scandinavian underground with a decade of multi-faceted extreme metal. They bring triple-genre fury from southern Sweden.
Lewisburg, West Virginia's Plaguewielder evolved from raw black metal into a blacker, more feral black/thrash hybrid — a fitting sound for a band forged in the isolated mountains of Appalachia.
Atmospheric black metal and ambient project from Yekaterinburg, Russia, formed in 2013, reflecting cosmic light through immersive atmospheric compositions from the Ural Mountains capital. Over a decade of celestial atmosphere.
Mannheim's Planks evolved from straightforward sludge metal into a more complex blackened sludge and post-metal hybrid over their years of activity since 2007. Their Kurpfalz industrial-city roots inform a sound that grew progressively darker and more ambitious with each release.
Post-black metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2012, whose philosophical name hints at the cerebral nature of their post-black metal approach. Over a decade of thoughtful extremity.
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