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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Charlotte, North Carolina black metal project. The name paints a canyon of suffering in the Queen City's underground.
Black metal band from Campinas, São Paulo, formed in 2008 and still active. Their lyrical focus centers on war and blasphemy, rooted firmly in the raw, anti-religious spirit of the Brazilian black metal underground, and they have released material through Alcatéia Distro.
Agoria blends black and doom metal from Riihimäki since 2011, creating compositions that shift between blast-beat fury and crushing slowness. Their dual-genre approach spans the extremes of tempo within Finnish underground metal.
Athens' Agos merge black and death metal into compositions of darkened intensity, drawing from the deep well of Greek extreme metal tradition. Active since 2018, they channel both genres' most aggressive elements into a cohesive and punishing sound.
Black metal band from São Paulo formed in 2018, whose name translates roughly to 'omen' or 'ill omen' in Portuguese. They pursue a misanthropic, satanic-tinged style within the Brazilian underground black metal tradition, with their Bandcamp page operating under the handle 'mauagouro' ('bad omen').
New York City black metal project. Named after the demon queen of the night, adding Jewish demonology to NYC's diverse black metal scene.
Agriculture is a post-black metal band from Los Angeles that has quickly become one of the most talked-about acts in American underground metal. Formed by members of the hardcore and punk scenes, the band's approach to black metal is informed by shoegaze, post-rock, and a DIY ethos, earning critical acclaim and festival appearances since their emergence in 2022.
Agrinex is a black metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. Their 2016 full-length "Forsaken Ancestral Blood" delivers eight tracks of black metal from the heartland, one of the genre's least expected geographic strongholds.
Agrona channels black metal from the Welsh capital of Cardiff since 2017, named after the Celtic goddess of slaughter. Their mythological Welsh inspiration feeds a sound steeped in the darkest traditions of Celtic warfare.
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