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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Black-thrash act from Kristiansand, active since 2012. Cobolt 60 — named after the radioactive isotope — delivers toxic, high-energy blackened thrash.
Muncie, Indiana's Cocaine Culture are a genre-defying chaos engine drawing from black, death, doom, sludge, and alternative metal in equal and unsettling measure. The result is a dense, disorienting sound that refuses easy categorization.
Black-death metal band from Dusseldorf, Germany, formed in 2018. They channel occult darkness through a fusion of black and death metal.
Uppsala death/black metal project formed in 2023, named after the legendary medieval manuscript also known as the Devil's Bible. Their extreme fusion channels darkness and occult mystique from Sweden's ancient ecclesiastical center.
Raw black metal project from Tolyatti on the Volga, formed in 2022. Codex Moh channels lo-fi, stripped-down black metal from the Soviet-era auto city.
Black metal project from Amersfoort in Utrecht province, formed in 2024. Codex Mortis channels dark, ritualistic black metal from central Netherlands.
Raw black metal project from Poznań, formed in 2024. Codex-02 channels stripped-down, abrasive black metal from Greater Poland.
Nashville, Tennessee black-death metal act Coffin bring a grim, underground aesthetic to Music City's heavy scene, pairing raw black metal atmosphere with death metal brutality. Their music fits firmly in the underground extreme metal tradition.
Boston, Massachusetts black-death metal band Coffin Birth draw from both sides of extreme metal's most lethal pairing, delivering dark atmosphere alongside relentless aggression. Boston's storied metal scene provides fertile ground for their grim sonic vision.
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