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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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A black metal band based in Brooklyn, New York, Calvaria have been active since 2022, carving out their place in the city's underground extreme metal community.
Black metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2016. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from Finland's third-largest city.
Georgia-based black metal act Calvary are a nascent underground project still building their catalog and identity within the extreme metal underground.
Black metal band from Zaragoza, Spain, formed in 2015. They craft intense, atmospheric black metal from the Aragonese capital.
Pagan black metal project from Sala in central Sweden, formed in 2022. Camazotz — named after the Mayan bat god — channels dark pagan themes.
Speed-obsessed, blasphemous death metal inspired by Angelcorpse, Krisiun, and Hate Eternal. Releases on Lavadome Productions and Iron Blood and Death Corporation.
Black-thrash metal band from France, emerging in 2025. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash metal velocity.
California solo project by Agravain that evolved from power/melodic death metal into black, pagan, and folk metal territory, drawing on themes of despair, fantasy, and ancient legend before disbanding around 2010.
Black metal project from Genoa, formed in 2021. Camponero channels raw black metal from the Ligurian coast of northwestern Italy.
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