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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Battle Ground, Washington one-person project CHVD crafts desolate, introspective depressive black metal characterized by icy tremolo lines and suffocating bleakness. The project leans into isolation and despair as core aesthetic anchors.
Depressive black metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2017. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal steeped in despair.
Depressive black metal project from Kungur in the Perm region, formed in 2019. Cold Bleeding channels bleak despair from the ice cave town of the Ural foothills.
Eugene, Oregon's Cold Frozen Grave specialize in depressive black metal soaked in Pacific Northwest desolation — lo-fi, anguished, and cold, their music sounds as if it was recorded in a forest at midnight.
Hailing from the rust-belt city of Erie, Pennsylvania, Cold in the Soul trades in depressive black metal that mirrors the grey, lake-effect bleakness of their hometown — slow-burning and harrowing.
Cold Inside crafts suffocating depressive black metal that turns inward rather than outward, favoring minimalist dread and spiraling repetition over spectacle — a project defined entirely by desolation.
Depressive black metal project from Cornwall, England, formed in 2023. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the English West Country.
Depressive black metal project from Ukraine, formed in 2024. ColdHøst channels bleak, atmospheric black metal.
Out of Chesterton, Indiana — a small Lake Michigan dune town wedged between Chicago and nowhere — Coldness channels depressive black metal's isolation and misery with the conviction of a project that clearly means every note.
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