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Poison Blood is a black metal project formed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina in 2017, a collaboration between Jenks Miller (Horseback) and Neill Jameson (Krieg), developed remotely without the two musicians ever having met in person. Their self-titled debut EP (2017) drew explicit inspiration from Beherit's Drawing Down the Moon, channeling raw early black metal through textures that also incorporated deathrock, dungeon synth, and occult imagery. The project represents a concise but pointed statement from two of American underground black metal's more distinctive voices.
Denver's Poisonous Wind emerged from the Colorado Rockies in 2020 with a black metal aesthetic shaped by isolation and altitude, channeling the raw, misanthropic tradition of Scandinavian second-wave black metal through a distinctly American lens. Cold, atmospheric, and unrelenting, their sound carries the chill of high plains winters.
Black metal and crust punk band from Grenoble, France, formed in 2024, whose name is French slang for 'bad luck.' They merge the raw fury of black metal with crust punk's urgency from the Alpine city.
Black and speed metal band with punk influences from Lyon, France, formed in 2015, combining the darkness of black metal with the velocity of speed metal and punk's raw attitude. Their umlaut-adorned name signals Teutonic metal worship from the French underground.
Phoenix's Poleis entered the black metal underground in 2023, bringing a harsh and ascetic approach to a city better known for sun and sprawl than for cold, dark metal. The name — evoking ancient Greek city-states — suggests a project as much concerned with ideas as with raw sonic assault, and their black metal reflects that austere ambition.
One-man melodic death and black metal project from Brest, Belarus, created by Robert (Enotovich) in 2020 as a continuation of the earlier Aztaroth project. All guitar parts are recorded by a single person, resulting in releases like Insomnia and Winter Is Coming.
Plauen's Poems of the Elder crafts atmospheric black metal steeped in ancient Vogtland mysticism since 2019. Their Saxony base in the Ore Mountains borderlands feeds a sound rich with nature worship and the weight of centuries-old folk memory.
Black metal band from Torun, Poland, formed in 2019, channeling darkness from the Gothic brick city on the Vistula River. They bring atmospheric black metal to the Kuyavian-Pomeranian region.
Erfurt's Part of the Anima has been crafting atmospheric black metal since 2016, drawing on the Thuringian capital's medieval architecture and dense cultural history. Their cascading tremolo passages and ambient textures create vast sonic landscapes befitting their Central German surroundings.
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