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Black metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2017. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from the Loire-Atlantique capital.
Celestial Waters is a South Dakota black metal project drawing from the atmospheric and depressive branches of the genre, with sparse, wintry arrangements and a meditative bleakness shaped by the open, isolated landscape of the Northern Plains. Their sound emphasizes texture and desolation over aggression.
Black-doom metal project from Frankfurt, Germany, emerging in 2025. They merge the bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom.
One-man atmospheric black metal project from Vienna, founded in 2024 by the artist known as Oblivion. Their debut EP 'Fall of Dying Lights' explores cosmic isolation and celestial themes, blending icy black metal with vast, space-inspired atmospheres.
Budapest-based black metal project formed in 2020. Cellar Dweller crafts subterranean, cavernous black metal steeped in darkness and isolation.
CellarWitch is a Portland, Oregon band operating at the intersection of black metal and brutal death metal, fusing icy tremolo aggression with pulverizing low-end brutality and a chaotic, dissonant approach that resists clean genre categorization.
Celtic black metal and folk metal band from Dublin, active since 2010. Celtachor draws deeply on Irish mythology and the Gaelic tradition, weaving folk instrumentation into fierce black metal.
Pagan black metal band from Alexandreia in northern Greece, active since 2013. They channel Celtic and pagan themes through atmospheric black metal from the Macedonian region.
Pagan black metal band from the Bremen/Delmenhorst area, Germany, formed in 2016. They channel Celtic themes and nature worship through raw, atmospheric black metal.
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