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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Tampa death metal institution active since 1998, amassing a dozen releases that span the full spectrum of Scandinavian-influenced extremity. From the epic narratives of Jomsviking to the Norse mythology of Deceiver of the Gods, they bring a melodic death metal sensibility honed in Florida's legendary extreme metal proving ground.
Amon Rudh crafts melodic black metal from Yaroslavl on the upper Volga since 2024. Named after the lonely hill in Tolkien's Silmarillion, they bring Middle-earth geography to melodic black metal from one of Russia's Golden Ring cities.
Among the Lights creates post-black metal with shoegaze elements from an undisclosed Polish location since 2023. Their luminous name guides compositions that bathe black metal's darkness in shimmering, ethereal light.
Washington black metal project. Nocturnal atmosphere from the Pacific Northwest.
Philadelphia black metal project translating grief into sound since 2024. With two EPs in quick succession — Qualia Of Sorrow and Death In Spring — they channel the genre's emotional extremes through a distinctly literary sensibility, their Latin name meaning 'love of sorrow.'
Amorak channels black metal from Guimarães — the birthplace of Portugal — since 2012. From the city where the Portuguese nation was founded in the 12th century, they practice black metal rooted in the country's deepest historical identity.
Amorcus is a medieval black metal duo from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, featuring Feliciano 'Sylius' C.G. on vocals and programming and Angeus 'Rattet' Wolf on guitars. Their release Medieval Supremacy fuses raw nineties black metal with lo-fi dungeon synth, creating an atmospheric blend of medieval themes and extreme metal aggression.
Amorphia merges death and black metal from Zaporizhia since 2018. Their formless name drives compositions that dissolve fixed structures through the combined acid of two extreme genres.
Amorphus channels melodic death and black metal from Verona since 2023, their name suggesting formlessness that belies the structured melodicism of their compositions. From the city of Romeo and Juliet, they craft music of dark romantic intensity.
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