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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Experimental black metal project from Celle in Lower Saxony, Germany, pushing the boundaries of the genre since 2014. Their approach takes black metal into uncharted territory through unconventional structures and avant-garde sonic exploration.
Experimental pagan metal project from Schlagenhofen, Germany, pushing the boundaries of folk-infused metal since 2011. Their name, meaning "ice work" in German, reflects a crafted, deliberate approach to fusing pagan themes with experimental metal.
Charlotte's Encephalon bend black metal through a prism of experimental rock, trading genre orthodoxy for something unpredictable and deliberately off-kilter. Active since 2014, they treat the black metal template as a starting point rather than a constraint.
Avant-garde black metal experimentalists from Venice, Italy active since 1999, fusing first-wave black metal foundations with symphonic and atmospheric explorations. Their releases Baroque Esprit and Aura Sinfonica on Electric Horizon Records feature classically-influenced compositions like "A Disharmonious Suite to Aphrodite" and "Venetian Sunset."
Budapest's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this doom metal, experimental, and sludge metal unit is among them — wielding glacial, punishment-dealing grooves wallowing in distortion. Uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
British black metal, death metal, and experimental act, active since 2021 delivering second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Rooted in the island that gave the world Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden, their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
New York's Epistasis take their name from a genetics term describing how one gene suppresses another — a fitting metaphor for experimental black metal that distorts and subverts its own conventions. Formed in 2023, they're already pushing the genre into unsettled territory.
California's Erizo — Spanish for hedgehog — is anything but soft, weaponizing experimental grindcore and death metal into unpredictable, spiny sonic assaults that defy easy categorization. Active since 2008, the project treats genre as raw material to be shredded and reconfigured rather than adhered to.
Nashville's Eroding Realm pushes death-doom into experimental territory, layering dissonance and unconventional structure over the genre's foundational heaviness. Formed in 2020, the band treats their sonic palette as something to be actively destabilized rather than settled into.
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