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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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Depressive black metal project from the UK, formed in 2024. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal.
Chaosophia is a depressive black metal band from San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina, formed around 2009–2010 with a core trio of Kanaglia on vocals, Kaos on guitar, and Kosmos on drums. The band released a demo called "Funeral March" in 2009 and appeared on two split releases through the Argentine underground label Black Noise Records: "Extremities of an Abyss" (with La Torture Des Ténèbres, 2016) and "6th Extinction" (with Cryptogenus and Parasomnia, 2017). Both split releases were limited-edition physical formats typical of the Argentine black metal underground.
Depressive black metal project from Kemerovo in the Kuzbass coal basin of Siberia, formed in 2024. Chapters of Misery channels bleak melancholy from the industrial heartland.
Depressive black metal project from Vilnius, Lithuania, active since 2010. Cheerful Depression — an oxymoronic name befitting the genre — channels deep melancholy through atmospheric black metal.
Depressive black metal project from Novorossiysk on the Black Sea coast, active since 2013. ChernoMor — a play on both 'Black Sea' and a character from Russian folklore — crafts melancholic black metal.
Frigid Depressive Black Metal out of Texas.
Depressive black metal project from Genk, Belgium, formed in 2019. Their self-titled debut spans seven tracks of anguished, atmospheric black metal across 38 minutes, exploring the bleakest corners of the genre.
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.
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