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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Avant-garde black metal project from Greifswald on the Baltic coast, Germany, formed in 2024. They push black metal into unconventional territory through experimental and avant-garde approaches.
Melodic black metal project from Saint-Nazaire, France, formed in 2022. They weave dark melodies through atmospheric black metal from the Loire-Atlantique coast.
UK black metal project active since 2012. They craft cosmic-themed atmospheric black metal.
Black metal project from Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia near Finland, formed in 2023. Cotard Delusion — named after the psychological condition of believing oneself dead — channels dark themes from northwestern Russia.
Detroit's Couloir operate in the atmospheric and post-black metal space, crafting expansive, textured compositions that move between glacial beauty and blasting ferocity. Their music reflects the industrial isolation and sprawl of their city.
New Jersey's Count Dirtbagulous take avant-garde black metal in strange and confrontational directions, subverting genre conventions with dark humor and genuine musical weirdness. The name says something about their approach — serious art wearing a ridiculous costume.
Symphonic black-doom metal band from England, formed in 2022. They weave symphonic grandeur through darkened doom-black metal.
Black metal band from Leiden, one of the longest-running acts in Dutch black metal with origins dating to 1993. Countess has spent over three decades as a stalwart of the Netherlands' black metal underground.
San Francisco black metal act Countess Erzsebet take their name from the infamous Hungarian noblewoman and channel that dark history into cold, bleak compositions. Their music sits in the raw and ritualistic end of the American black metal underground.
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