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Iconoclasm is a Belgian black metal act from Aalter, active since 1997, with a discography spanning Marching Evil (2000), Iconoclastic Warfare (2004), and a split with Panchrysia titled The Ultimate Crescendo of Hell (2006). After a 2007 hiatus, the band reunited fifteen years later, remaining one of Flanders' longest-running black metal projects.
Iconoclastarum XXI is a black metal band from Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2021 as a continuation of the project previously known as Jegfalt, which had been active since 2018. The band released "Demo XXI" on April 7, 2021, a nine-track recording made at Daswolf Studios between October 2018 and February 2019. Their lyrical themes draw on literature and philosophy.
Atlanta's melodic death/black metal hybrid emerged in 2021 with a sound split between soaring melodic hooks and outright blackened hostility — the South's answer to the Gothenburg-Dissection axis.
Black metal band from France formed in 2023. Their enigmatic name channels raw black metal from the French underground.
Atmospheric black metal band from Lyon, France active since 2012. Their sound channels expansive atmospheric black metal from the Rhône-Alpes capital.
A ferocious black/death/grind amalgam — the Bandcamp URL hints at Texas origins — colliding all three genres into something confrontational and barely contained, refusing to settle into any single extreme.
Idhafels is a black metal band from Kassel, Germany, active since 2003, forging atmospheric black metal from the heart of northern Hesse for over two decades. The band draws on the region's dense forests and fairy-tale heritage for their brooding, nature-tinged compositions.
Idimmu is a black metal project from Harlingen, Netherlands, active since 2019 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Netherlands black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Minneapolis black/sludge metal duo formed in 2022, marrying the frozen misanthropy of black metal to the tar-thick heaviness of sludge in a way that suits the long, lightless winters of the upper Midwest.
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