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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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San Antonio black metal act Covered in Flies play in the raw and stripped-down tradition of the genre, favoring bleak minimalism over production polish. They're part of San Antonio's growing extreme metal underground.
Norwegian black metal project formed in 2020. Covetous channels dark, possessive themes through raw black metal.
German black metal project formed in 2022. They channel pandemic-era nihilism through raw, uncompromising black metal.
Covil is a black metal and dungeon synth project from Curitiba, Brazil, formed in 2022. The project blends raw black metal with ambient and dark dungeon synth atmospheres, releasing the album "Creatures of the Cave" in February 2022 via Floppy Tales Records.
Santa Rosa black metal outfit channeling bleak, atmospheric menace through raw production and unrelenting hostility. Their sound is sparse and suffocating, built on repetition and cold dissonance.
Columbus duo fusing abrasive crust punk with primitive black metal into something genuinely ugly and confrontational. Short, caustic bursts of noise that leave no room for comfort.
Black-sludge metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2014. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with sludge metal's oppressive weight.
Ohio raw black metal project steeped in deliberate lo-fi ugliness and a deeply underground aesthetic. Murky, buzzing, and cold, with little interest in accessibility or polish.
Black metal band from Hasselt, Belgium, active since 2013, blending atmospheric and post-black metal elements. Their debut album 'In Solitary Minds' spans nearly 49 minutes of introspective, layered black metal.
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