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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Alltid Allena creates post-black metal from an undisclosed German location since 2023. Their Swedish-language name meaning 'always alone' introduces a Scandinavian melancholy into their atmospheric German black metal.
Allybis practices black metal from an undisclosed Norwegian location as of 2025. Their mysterious name adds to the deliberate anonymity that characterizes much of the Norwegian black metal underground.
Black/doom metal project of unknown origin named after the fourth book of the Lemegeton. Grimoire-derived heaviness.
Minnesota black metal and funeral doom project named after Ptolemy's astronomical treatise. Ancient stargazing rendered through the genre's slowest and coldest forms.
Cherry Hill, New Jersey black metal project. The name's association with seasonal cycles and agricultural knowledge adds earthy wisdom to suburban extremity.
Almoth channels black metal from Paris since 2021, adding another voice to the French capital's dense black metal community. Their enigmatic name and Parisian origins connect them to one of Europe's most productive extreme metal ecosystems.
Almucantarat channels atmospheric black metal from Vladivostok since 2023. Named after the astronomical circle parallel to the horizon, their celestial-measurement name drives atmospheric compositions from Russia's Pacific coast.
Almyrkvi creates atmospheric black metal from Reykjavík, part of the Icelandic black metal collective Vánagandr alongside Sinmara and Svartidauði since their 2016 emergence. Their name, meaning 'total darkness' in Old Norse, captures the lightless depths of their cavernous, reverb-drenched sound.
Alnitak crafts symphonic black metal from Ossi near Sassari in Sardinia since 2014, named after one of the three stars forming Orion's Belt. Their celestial identity informs orchestrally enriched black metal that reaches for cosmic scale from the Mediterranean island.
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