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One-person blackened doom metal project from Skegness, UK, launched in 2021 with the album Ascension on Narcoleptica Productions. The three tracks on Ascension stretch past twelve minutes each, delivering crushing, glacially paced blackened doom where all composition, instruments, vocals, and production are handled solo.
Ambient black/funeral doom metal project from Finland, formed in 2016 with a name meaning "lost" in Finnish. Their sound merges ambient black metal's atmospheric expansiveness with funeral doom's glacial heaviness.
Atmospheric black metal project from Tampere, formed in 2018 with a Finnish name meaning "gate of perdition." Their compositions build dark, immersive atmospheres through the lens of Finnish black metal tradition.
Trading in pure metallic intensity, this black metal act from Netherlands traffics in icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Since 2016, they've built a catalog that reflects Holland's dense concentration of metal talent.
Utrecht, Netherlands — black metal and raw black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2016, they deal in frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels black metal with a focus on icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Formed in 2013, based in Uppsala, their sound honors the second wave while forging its own path.
Finnish melodic black/heavy metal project formed in 2023, with a name meaning "almighty" in Finnish. Their sound blends black metal's darkness with heavy metal's melodic hooks, channeling the Finnish tradition of genre-defying extremity.
Rising from Soriano nel Cimino (Viterbo)'s metal underground, this Italian act forges Avant-garde Metal and Black Metal built on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Black/death metal act from Portsmouth, England, formed in 2016 and forging a sound at the violent intersection of black metal's atmospheric menace and death metal's guttural brutality. Their approach channels the darkest currents of both genres into a unified assault.
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