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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Head Cage (2018)
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Symphonic melodic death-black metal band from Vantaa, Finland, formed in 2018. They weave symphonic elements through a foundation of blackened melodic death metal.
Black metal band from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2013. They deliver cold, intense black metal shaped by the traditions of the genre's European heritage.
San Jose's ColdClaw operates at the intersection of black and death metal, carving out a sound that owes as much to Scandinavian darkness as it does to the Bay Area's storied extreme metal underground.
Melodic blackened death metal act from Rostov-on-Don, active since 2016. Colder than Moon delivers melody-infused extreme metal from the southern Russian steppe.
Black metal band from London, formed in 2023. They deliver dark, intense black metal from the English capital.
Drawing from the hilly border country of West Virginia and Ohio, Coldfells fuses black metal's bleakness with the crawling despair of doom, evoking something genuinely regional — the slow erosion of post-industrial Appalachian landscapes.
Black metal band from Lincolnshire, England, active since 2013. They craft cold, frost-themed black metal from the English fenlands.
Atmospheric black metal act from Postojna, the karst cave city of Slovenia, active since 2007. Coldhand channels the subterranean darkness of the Karst region into expansive, atmospheric black metal.
Depressive black metal project from Ukraine, formed in 2024. ColdHøst channels bleak, atmospheric black metal.
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