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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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Romanian atmospheric black metal project active since 2001, layering ethereal textures and tremolo-picked melodies over blast-driven foundations. Their compositions explore vast emotional terrain through cascading guitars and immersive soundscapes.
Vlaardingen-based depressive black metal project active since 2025, channeling anguish and isolation through raw, lo-fi compositions drenched in misery. Their sound wallows in slow-to-mid-tempo passages of bleak introspection punctuated by agonized shrieks.
Bari-based depressive black metal project active since 2021, channeling anguish and isolation through raw, lo-fi compositions drenched in misery. Their sound wallows in slow-to-mid-tempo passages of bleak introspection punctuated by agonized shrieks.
Solitary depressive black metal emanating from Bologna, formed in 2016. Their recordings strip black metal to its most emotionally exposed core, favoring repetitive, trance-like structures and vocals wracked with despair.
Solitary depressive black metal emanating from Biysk, formed in 2020. Their recordings strip black metal to its most emotionally exposed core, favoring repetitive, trance-like structures and vocals wracked with despair.
Krasnoyarsk-based atmospheric black metal project active since 2013, layering ethereal textures and tremolo-picked melodies over blast-driven foundations. Their compositions explore vast emotional terrain through cascading guitars and immersive soundscapes.
Solitary depressive black metal emanating from Kropyvnytskyi, formed in 2021. Their recordings strip black metal to its most emotionally exposed core, favoring repetitive, trance-like structures and vocals wracked with despair.
Blood Flowing is a depressive and atmospheric black metal project from Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2025. The project describes its music as a personal confession rather than an artistic endeavor, releasing material including the album "To Live Is To Suffer... And I Am Tired Of Living" and a split with Old Ugly Trees. Their sound sits firmly within the depressive suicidal black metal (DSBM) tradition.
German depressive black metal project formed in 2019. They channel emotional anguish through the bleakest reaches of depressive black metal.
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