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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Black-thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2015. They deliver blasphemous, high-speed extreme metal from the Greek capital.
Black-death metal band from Stafford, England, active since 2013. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the Staffordshire heartland.
Christhunter is a black metal band from Congonhas, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with lyrical themes rooted in anti-Christianity and Satanism. Signed to Black Vomit Records, the band released the album "Christ's Scourge" in 2013 and a self-titled release, both documented on Encyclopaedia Metallum. They remain an active presence in the Brazilian underground black metal scene.
Symphonic blackened death metal band from Lábatlan, Hungary, one of the country's veteran extreme acts with origins dating to 1996. Christian Epidemic has spent nearly three decades blending orchestral bombast with blasphemous aggression.
Black-grind act from Stavropol in the North Caucasus, active since 2008. ChristInvertion delivers blasphemous extremity merging black metal with grindcore.
Black metal and speed metal act from Kaunas, Lithuania, formed in 2019. Christless channels raw, blasphemous aggression through a classic black-speed metal template.
Louisville black/death hybrid Christlier fuses the caustic atmosphere of black metal with death metal's brutality into a dense, unrelenting sound. Their music draws from Kentucky's historically fertile underground extreme metal community.
Christophobia is a black metal band from Arapongas, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2014 and signed to Rotthenness Records. Their sound draws on old-school black metal with themes of anti-dogmatism, satanism, and death, blending dense, melancholic passages with fast and aggressive riffing. The band released the EP "Lágrimas de Sangue" in 2018 and has continued releasing material through their Bandcamp page.
Lexington, Kentucky black/thrash act Christrape channels the genre's most confrontational impulses into a raw and venomous sound. Their approach draws on the first-wave black metal and speed metal traditions that defined the genre's most corrosive early output.
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