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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Borderland (2025)
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Tucson's Encroaching Darkness blend death and black metal under the brutal heat of the Sonoran Desert, channeling the unforgiving terrain into music that's merciless and atmospherically dense. Active since 2014, they represent southern Arizona's extreme metal underground.
Part of the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition, this act channels black metal with a focus on icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Formed in 2024, based in London, their sound honors the second wave while forging its own path.
Port Saint Lucie's End My Suffering emerge from Florida's oppressive heat and humidity into the depressive black metal void, channeling isolation and despair through raw, lo-fi atmosphere. A project born in 2025 with nothing to prove and everything to exorcise.
Wilkesboro, North Carolina's End of All sit at the crossroads of death metal and deathcore, delivering the kind of heavy that's both technically demanding and brutally direct. A newer act already staking out their corner of the genre.
Black, gothic, and symphonic metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece launched in 2024. They fuse multiple dark metal styles from northern Greece.
Udine-based black metal act, active since 2018 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
End of Life deal in stripped-down black metal with a raw, unadorned approach that keeps the emphasis on atmosphere over production polish. Formed in 2020 and operating without a fixed location, the project leans into anonymity as part of its aesthetic.
Black metal project from Paris, France active since 2016. They explore misanthropic themes through raw black metal from the French capital.
Augusta, Georgia's End the Sun drag black metal and doom into a bleak, slow-burning collision — the kind of music that sounds like a sky turning the wrong color before a storm. Since 2016, they've been one of the deeper South's most atmospherically menacing heavy acts.
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