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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Temecula, California raw black metal project channeling the most primitive and hostile tradition of the genre. Cynicism CA operates in the underground with a deliberately stripped-down, lo-fi, and caustic black metal aesthetic.
Blackened death-doom act from Działdowo in northern Masuria, formed in 2021. Cyrograf — Polish for 'pact with the devil' — merges dark subgenres from the rural north.
Black metal project from the Wieliczka and Dobczyce area near Kraków, active since 2013. Cyrograph crafts atmospheric black metal from the Lesser Poland salt mine region.
Black metal band from England, formed in 2024. Their Welsh name meaning shadow, Cysgod craft dark black metal.
Boston black metal band steeped in atmospheric darkness and the raw, hostile tradition of American black metal. Cythraul draws from the Welsh word for the demonic to channel a sound built on cold, bleak, and unforgiving fury.
Black metal band from Le Pouliguen on the Loire-Atlantique coast, France, formed in 2021. They craft atmospheric black metal from the French Atlantic shore.
Black metal project from Syktyvkar, the capital of the Komi Republic in northern Russia, formed in 2018. Cyticra channels boreal black metal from the sub-Arctic taiga.
California black metal project operating in the underground tradition of raw, atmospheric black metal. Cytonic pursues a cold and corrosive sound built on the genre's most primitive and hostile elements.
Los Angeles black metal band operating in the California underground with a raw and atmospheric approach to the genre. Czar CA pursues cold, minimalist black metal with the hostility and grimness of the old-school tradition.
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