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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Out of Chesterton, Indiana — a small Lake Michigan dune town wedged between Chicago and nowhere — Coldness channels depressive black metal's isolation and misery with the conviction of a project that clearly means every note.
Prolific melodic black metal project from Minsk, Belarus, active since 2021. With a rapid output spanning releases like Wanderer of the Agony, Deadly Delusions, and Vagabond Legends, Coldrope channels melancholic aggression through raw, atmospheric black metal.
Black metal band from Kuopio, Finland, formed in 2021. They channel cold, wintry black metal from the eastern Finnish lakeland.
Black metal project from Gorno-Altaysk, the capital of the remote Altai Republic in southern Siberia, formed in 2021. ColdStorm channels raw black metal from the mountainous heart of Central Asia.
Black metal band from the Marl/Waltrop area of the Ruhr, Germany, formed in 2016. They channel cold, thorny black metal from the industrial heart of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Orange County's Coldvoid deals in the depressive strain of black metal — raw, stripped-down, and uncomfortably personal — a project that rejects Southern California's warmth in favor of atmospheric emptiness.
Depressive black metal project from Lublin, formed in 2025. ColdWinterSorrow channels bleak melancholy through atmospheric black metal from eastern Poland.
Depressive black metal band from Erfurt, Germany, active since 2017. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal steeped in despair and isolation.
Epic black and death metal band from Liege, Belgium, one of the scene's veterans since 2004. They combine the grandeur of epic metal with the extremity of black and death metal, creating sweeping compositions from the Walloon capital.
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