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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Portuguese black metal project formed in 2015. Colossal Void channels cavernous, expansive black metal.
Black metal project from Tilburg, formed in 2022. Colossus Blade conjures epic black metal from a city renowned as a hub of Dutch extreme metal.
Atmospheric black metal project from the UK, active since 2012. They craft vast, immersive atmospheres within a black metal framework.
Atmospheric black metal project from Rivne in northwestern Ukraine, active since 2015. Colotyphus delivers expansive, atmospheric black metal from the Volyn region.
Black metal band from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, formed in 2014. They craft atmospheric black metal from the gateway to the Black Forest.
Black-death-sludge metal band from Vichy, France, formed in 2021. They blend extreme metal darkness with sludge weight from the Auvergne spa town.
Milwaukee black metal act Columbarium conjure cold, atmospheric darkness from the shores of Lake Michigan. Their music is austere and ritualistic, dwelling in shadows rarely lit by the Upper Midwest sun.
Black metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2009. They channel dark intensity through atmospheric black metal from the German capital.
Germantown, Maryland's Coma Void blend post-black metal with funeral doom into something glacially beautiful and deeply sorrowful. Their music unfolds over long stretches of cold, atmospheric melancholy.
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