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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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Russian black metal and depressive black metal act, active since 2023 delivering venomous shrieks over walls of distortion. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Port Saint Lucie's End My Suffering emerge from Florida's oppressive heat and humidity into the depressive black metal void, channeling isolation and despair through raw, lo-fi atmosphere. A project born in 2025 with nothing to prove and everything to exorcise.
Depressive black metal project from Lyon, France launched in 2021. They explore bleak, sorrowful atmospheres from France's third-largest city.
California depressive black metal project that has cultivated a sound of prolonged, aching desolation since 2004. Their music prioritizes atmosphere over aggression, favoring slow tempos and despondent melodies that linger long after the recording ends.
Endless Solitude is a depressive black metal project from Macapá, Amapá, Brazil, active since 2004 and associated with the Depressive Illusions Records underground label. The project has released recordings including "Manes in Tenebris" and "Awakening of a Despair", exploring themes of depression and desolation in the raw black metal tradition.
Depressive black metal project from Minsk, Belarus, channeling bleakness, despair, and emotional extremity since 2021. Their sound embraces the genre's most introspective and tormented tendencies through raw, atmospheric compositions.
Chico, California depressive black metal project with post-rock underpinnings, formed in 2024 at the intersection of suicidal black metal's emotional rawness and post-rock's expansive dynamics. New but already committed to total atmospheric immersion.
Depressive black metal project from Bordeaux, France launched in 2024. They craft icy, melancholic black metal from southwestern France.
Ensimesmamento is a depressive/atmospheric black metal project from Brazil formed in 2019 by Astratta and Reverand Despair, both veterans of the Brazilian DSBM scene. The project released the EP "Notívago" in September 2019 and contributed a track to the DSBM Brazil Vol. I compilation the same year.
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