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Black-death metal band from London, formed in 2019. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the English capital.
Black metal project from Ferrandina in Matera province, Basilicata, formed in 2014. Coil Commemorate Enslave channels atmospheric black metal from one of southern Italy's most remote regions.
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Boone, North Carolina's Coils of the Serpent weave melodic black metal grandeur into a death metal foundation, producing atmospheric and serpentine compositions that balance aggression with dark, sweeping melody.
Blackened death metal act from the Algarve towns of Albufeira and Silves, formed in 2021. Cold and Deceased delivers extreme metal from the unlikely setting of Portugal's sunny southern coast.
Houston's Cold and Lust traffic in raw black metal with a Texas underground sensibility, blending nihilistic atmosphere with primitive, flesh-stripping aggression that owes nothing to polish.
New Jersey's Cold Blank Stare craft harsh, spare black metal rooted in the cold, minimalist European tradition — distant production and bleak riffing create a suffocating wall of darkness.
Depressive black metal project from Kungur in the Perm region, formed in 2019. Cold Bleeding channels bleak despair from the ice cave town of the Ural foothills.
Black metal band from Guildford in Surrey, England, active since 2012. They channel cold darkness through black metal from the English Home Counties.
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