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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Decatur, Illinois thrash metal project with six releases since 2012. Black Waltz and Feathers & Flesh deliver theatrical, riff-driven metal from central Illinois, building a substantial catalog from the heartland.
AvatariA is a gothic metal band with black metal influences from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2012, whose prolific catalog includes The Matrix Falls, Eneagramm, New World Order, The Last Falling, Apocalyptic, Memoirs of Humanity, and the 2025 release Downfall. The band blends gothic metal's dark atmospherics with death and black metal aggression across consistently released albums.
Chicago gothic metal veterans with nine releases stretching back to 1993. One of the longest-running underground gothic metal acts in America, their catalog — from the delicate A Delicate Tracery of Red to later works — traces over three decades of darkly beautiful music named after the entrance to the Roman underworld.
Azylya is a gothic metal band from Brussels, Belgium, formed in 2009 and signed to WormHoleDeath Records. The band pairs the clean female vocals of singer Jamie-Lee with keyboard-driven melodic metal and thrash-influenced riffing, crafting a sound the band describes as a contrast between hope and darkness.
Kraków-based gothic black metal act active since 2025, threading dark romantic atmospheres and melancholic melody through a foundation of black metal aggression. Their compositions balance ethereal beauty with raw extremity.
Spanish gothic metal band from Seville, formed in 2018. They channel dark, romantic gothic metal from Andalusia's cultural capital.
Finnish melodic death/gothic metal band from Nastola, formed in 2023. They blend melodic death metal with gothic metal atmospherics from the Päijänne Tavastia region.
Doom/gothic metal band from Brasília, Brazil, founded in late 2016 by vocalist-guitarist Felipe Stock alongside Pedro Paes on keyboards and Tama Oliveira on drums. Drawing heavily from Tiamat, Lake of Tears, My Dying Bride, and Saturnus, the band released their debut EP Cult of Solitude in 2018 — selling out all physical copies — and followed it with their dense nine-track full-length Our Darkest Home in 2021, which earned airplay on US radio stations.
Symphonic and gothic metal band from Minsk, Belarus, active since 2018. They pair orchestral grandeur with gothic metal's dark romanticism.
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