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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Stendhal's Syndrome channel depressive black metal named for the psychosomatic condition triggered by beautiful art since 2010. Their literary-medical name creates an exquisite tension between aesthetic beauty and psychological collapse.
Stoergeroisch channel depressive black metal from Bavaria, exploring the genre's most anguished emotional territory. Emerging in 2025, they represent the newest wave of Bavarian depressive black metal.
Depressive black metal project with connections to Loviisa, Finland, formed in 2020, working in the introspective, stripped-down tradition of depressive black metal with a Scandinavian orientation despite its US registration. The band's name is a Swedish-inflected phonetic rendering suggesting woodland isolation.
Suffer the Gestalt is a depressive black metal project from San Jose, California, formed in 2020, channeling introspective despair and psychological bleakness into the DSBM tradition of slow, anguished compositions.
Philadelphia depressive black metal project formed in 2015, inhabiting the raw, emotionally harrowing corner of the black metal spectrum defined by minimalist production and themes of despair.
Maple Grove, Minnesota depressive black metal project formed in 2024, working within the DSBM tradition of minimalist, emotionally raw black metal with an emphasis on atmosphere over aggression.
Suicidal Euphoria practice depressive black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2022. Their contradictory name joining self-destruction with ecstasy channels the dark joy found at the edge of oblivion into compositions of atmospheric anguish.
Suicidal Hideout channel depressive black metal from the Spanish underground, exploring the genre's most anguished emotional territory. Formed in 2024, they bring the darkest corners of introspection to the Iberian black metal scene.
Suicidal Years is a depressive black metal project from Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico, active from 2011 to 2025. The project was a solo effort by multi-instrumentalist Astarot, releasing a string of EPs including Cries of Despair and Suicide (2012), Contemplation of Self-Destruction (2014), and H.O.P.E. (2020) on Maa Productions.
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