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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Newsflash (2023)
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Raw industrial black-crust metal band from Sheffield, England, formed in 2016. They fuse black metal with crust punk and industrial elements from the Steel City.
Depressive black metal project from Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region, formed in 2019. Cuts channels bleak, self-destructive themes through atmospheric black metal from central Ukraine.
Black metal act from central Slovenia spanning Domžale, Šoštanj, and Celje, active since 2013. Cvinger has been a consistent force in Slovenian black metal for over a decade.
Raw black metal project from the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, active since 2016. Cvlt delivers lo-fi, stripped-down black metal from the contested peninsula.
Black metal band from Catalonia, Spain, formed in 2015. They craft dark, atmospheric black metal from the Catalan underground.
Danish black metal project emerging in 2025. They channel darkness through raw, atmospheric black metal.
Welsh black metal band formed in 2022. Their Welsh name meaning dragon cult, Cwlt Draig channel Celtic and draconic themes through black metal.
Black metal project from Reykjavík, formed in 2021. Cxaxukluth — named after a Lovecraftian outer god — channels cosmic horror through Icelandic black metal.
San Jose, California blackened death metal band forging a sound out of the collision between black metal's cold atmosphere and death metal's brutal low end. Cyanic channels Bay Area underground extremity with menace and weight.
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