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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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Black metal project from Paris, France active since 2020. They channel majestic, imperious black metal from the French capital.
When Eternal Messiah emerged in 2024 from Odesa, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and thrash metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
California's Eternal Misery take the savagery of black, death, and thrash metal and run them through the same blender without pausing for breath. Active since 2012, they are a no-frills extremity machine with consistent venom.
Pabianice, Poland — black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2025, they deal in raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Black metal project from the small Czech village of Pavlikov, conjuring nocturnal atmospheres and occult darkness since 2020. Their name evokes a perpetual night that permeates their raw, atmospheric black metal sound.
Baltimore's Eternal Oblivion has been pummeling since 2014 with a death/thrash hybrid that hits hard and fast, rooted in the working-class grit of the Maryland metal underground.
Denver's high-altitude desolation seeps into every note Eternal Obsession plays — their atmospheric black metal trades in vast, windswept textures and suffocating cold since 2018.
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Verona's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this black metal, gothic metal, and symphonic metal unit is among them — wielding lush keyboard atmospherics layered over crushing rhythmic power. Uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
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