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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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San Antonio black metal act formed in 2023, channeling raw, misanthropic energy from one of Texas's largest cities into a sound built on cold tremolo riffing and ceremonial malice. A newer entry into the Texas extreme underground, operating out of a city with a surprisingly fierce black metal contingent.
Black/death metal band from Kocaeli, Turkey formed in 2020. Wrathogoat delivers a ferocious blend of black and death metal from the industrial city on the Sea of Marmara.
Wrathorned was a black metal band from Valença, Brazil that traced its roots to a prior incarnation active in the 2000s, which released the demo "Pandemonical World of Total Disgrace" (2008) and the full-length "Hell Master," both documented on Metal Archives. The band relaunched under the Wrathorned name in 2013 before eventually splitting up.
Los Angeles avant-garde black metal duo formed in 2017, notable for replacing conventional guitar with grand piano as the primary instrument alongside drums and shrieked vocals. The result is a genuinely strange, dissonant take on black metal that sounds like nothing else in the California underground.
Raw black metal project from Osnabrück, Germany emerging in 2024. Wreedheid, a Dutch-German word for cruelty, delivers unfiltered raw black metal with a stripped-down, hostile approach.
Dayton, Ohio black metal project formed in 2024, emerging from a Rust Belt city with a history of extreme music and channeling the primitive, cultish energy that defines the rawer end of American black metal. One of the newest acts in the file, still early in carving out their identity in the Midwest underground.
Black metal band from Warrington, England formed in 2022. Wretched Malediction channels darkness and misanthropy through raw black metal from the Cheshire town.
A black metal outfit from Charleston, South Carolina, formed in 2022, dealing in raw, abrasive compositions that lean into the uglier end of the genre's American underground. Still early in their trajectory, they carry the cold, stripped-down aesthetic typical of the US black metal tape-trading circuit.
Omaha, Nebraska's Wretchgod emerged in 2022 fusing black and death metal into a hybrid that carries the bleak hostility of both genres without settling cleanly into either. Their presence in Nebraska's comparatively sparse extreme metal scene makes them a notable outlier, channeling the isolation of the Great Plains into punishing noise.
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