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Actin' Up (2023)
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Green Man Rising (Demo) (2017)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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Proof that the underground never sleeps, this black metal act from Gothenburg traffics in icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Since 2013, they've built a catalog that reflects the Gothenburg school's homeland.
Black metal and drone act from A Coruna in Galicia, northwestern Spain, merging raw black metal with sustained, hypnotic drone textures since 2013. Their approach creates an immersive, radiating darkness from Spain's Atlantic coast.
Black/death metal and raw black metal band from Split, Croatia active since 2017. They deliver fierce extreme metal from the Adriatic coast.
Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Dallas.
Embalsamado is a black/doom metal band from Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2013 by members of the established Brazilian black metal act Imperador Belial. The band pursues a morbid and atmospheric extreme metal sound, releasing the full-length Vasta Escuridão in 2018 and following it with Abismo in 2022.
Rising from Starogard Gdański's metal underground, this Polish act forges Black Metal built on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere. Frostbitten riffing and anti-cosmic lyrical themes define their output.
Formed in 2024, this Palermo Black Metal outfit delivers tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Their place within Italy's underrated but thriving metal community speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Oakland's Embers fuse black metal's icy atmosphere with doom's crushing weight and crust punk's streetwise grit, building something uniquely Bay Area in its bleakness. Active since 2009, they've carved out a space where political urgency and sonic desolation intersect.
Westminster, Maryland's Embers of Ouroboros are a raw black metal solo project devoted to cyclical darkness and lo-fi hostility. Founded in 2023, the project leans into primitive production as a deliberate aesthetic weapon.
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