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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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New York technical death metal and black metal act delivering extreme, precision-built material with genuine underground credibility. Their sound draws on both genres' most demanding technical traditions.
Black-thrash metal band from London, active since 2013. Craven Idol have built a strong reputation for their ferocious, riff-driven black-thrash from the English capital.
Folk-infused melodic death metal band from Oldenburg, Germany, active since 2012. They weave folk elements and dark melodies through a black and death metal foundation.
San Antonio trio fusing black metal's cold menace with the suffocating weight of doom and sludge. Their music moves with deliberate malice, rooted deep in the South Texas underground.
Connecticut post-black metal project weaving folk elements into a harrowing atmospheric framework. Crawl Below balances earthy melodicism against the desolate bleakness of the black metal tradition.
Black metal band from Basel, Switzerland, active since 2012. They craft dark, intense black metal drawn from the genre's atmospheric and aggressive traditions.
Black metal project from Kadıköy on Istanbul's Asian side, active since 2015. Crawling channels atmospheric black metal from the crossroads of Europe and Asia.
Pennsylvania raw black metal project steeped in lo-fi corrosion and stripped-to-bone harshness. Creak operates in the most unmediated register of the genre, where atmosphere is built through decay.
Orange County crossover thrash act channeling the reckless energy that defined the California hardcore-meets-metal scene. Creatures keep the pit-starting spirit of classic crossover alive with fast, aggressive songs.
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