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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Astral Frost delivers black metal from Helsinki since 2021, their crystalline name evoking the ice-bound cosmos. The project adds another dimension to Helsinki's seemingly infinite black metal landscape.
Astral Horror practices black metal from an undisclosed Finnish location since 2022. Their cosmic-dread name captures the Lovecraftian intersection of astronomy and terror that permeates their compositions.
Scorching Ambient Black Metal from Texarkana.
Astral Oath blends black metal with ambient textures from an undisclosed Italian location since 2016. Their celestial pledge drives music that ascends from earthbound aggression into vast atmospheric spaces.
Brownsville, Texas black metal project — one of the southernmost metal acts in the US, operating from the Mexican border. Three releases since 2015 channel astronomical themes through atmospheric black metal from the Rio Grande Valley.
Cincinnati/Dayton, Ohio black metal project with twelve releases since 2022. An extraordinarily prolific act whose Cosmic Projections Collection and subsequent albums build an immense catalog of celestially themed black metal from the Ohio River Valley.
Black metal project that migrated from Portland to Atlanta. Their 2022 single ,and its consequences — with its deliberately unconventional punctuation — suggests a literary, post-modern approach to extreme music.
Astral Ruins are a Vienna-based black metal project whose name gestures toward the cosmic and the decayed — a fitting frame for music that inhabits the atmospheric, space-inflected fringe of black metal. Their recordings build cold, shimmering guitar textures into expansive compositions that evoke both outer desolation and inward collapse.
Santa Fe, New Mexico black metal project whose elaborate name hints at cosmic ritual themes, channeling the high desert's mystical energy into atmospheric extremity.
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