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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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Melodic black-death metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2015. They weave melodic elements through blackened death metal from the Bavarian capital.
Multi-genre extreme metal band from Piraeus/Athens, Greece, active since 2011. They weave together black metal, death metal, doom, and melodic elements into a despairing, ambitious sound.
Melodic black metal project from Poznań, formed in 2025. Characith — named after a qabalistic concept — channels melodic darkness from Greater Poland.
Melodic black metal act from the small town of Radoszyce in central Poland, active since 2006. Cherem has spent two decades crafting melody-driven black metal from the Świętokrzyskie region.
Polish melodic black metal pioneers from Morąg and later Olsztyn, with roots stretching back to 1990. Christ Agony is one of Poland's oldest and most respected black metal acts, with over three decades of blasphemous output.
Clementon, New Jersey's Chronepsis blends melodic black metal, death metal, and raw blackened fury into a sound steeped in dark fantasy and mythological themes. Their music balances aggression with melodic sweep drawn from the Scandinavian melodic extreme metal tradition.
Melodic black metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, active since 2012. They weave dark melodies through atmospheric black metal from the Saxon industrial city.
Melodic black metal project from Nitra, formed in 2022. Cineres — Latin for 'ashes' — channels atmospheric, melody-driven black metal from western Slovakia.
Melodic black metal duo from Minsk, Belarus, formed by Ślepowron and Sida. Their 2025 debut Zabytaja Karčma sets the poetry of revered Belarusian writer Yanka Kupala to atmospheric black metal, blending national literary heritage with dark metal aesthetics.
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