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...And Oceans is a Finnish black metal band founded in 1989 in Jyväskylä under the name Festerday, shifting to symphonic black metal and adopting their current name in the late 1990s. The band released their debut The Dynamic Gallery of Thoughts in 1998 on Season of Mist, and by their 2001 album A.M.G.O.D. via Century Media had incorporated industrial rhythms, EBM, and techno elements into a notably avant-garde take on black metal. The group disbanded and reformed under various names before fully reconstituting as ...And Oceans in 2020, releasing Cosmic World Mother and the 2023 follow-up As in Gardens, So in Tombs, continuing their experimental evolution.
Afasia was a symphonic black metal band from Conchal, São Paulo, Brazil, who released their debut album "Far from Existence, Close to the Essence" in May 2023 before disbanding. The record was praised in underground circles for its excellently orchestrated melodic black metal in the vein of late-1990s and early-2000s European symphonic black metal, and the band followed it with a second release, "In the Arms of Death."
Almagor is a death metal band from Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela, formed in 2007, playing a brutal style that draws from both death metal and grindcore with Christian lyrical themes. The band released the EP Aborto comun in 2012 and their debut full-length Juzgados in 2014, earning recognition in Venezuela and across Latin America.
Austral Nox is an independent symphonic black metal band from Santiago, Chile, whose lyrical themes span horror, death, and nature. In 2018 they released the four-track EP The Forsaking of the Sun, featuring songs including "Angelical Mutilated Skies" and the eight-minute title track.
Blood Sorcery is a one-man symphonic black metal project from Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2021. The project has released multiple works including "Spiritus Satanae" (2024), "Profane Rites" (2023), and "Spectral Fire" (2023), building a prolific output of orchestral black metal in the Brazilian underground.
Ceremonial Flames is a symphonic black metal band from Teresina, Piauí, Brazil, whose lyrics explore ceremonial magic, Goetia, Kabbalah, Thelema, and Hermeticism. The band was founded by vocalist and occultist Bruno Soares and guitarist Roberto Ryuller, and has performed live in the northeastern Brazilian circuit, including a live recording at Suíça Pub in Pedro II, Piauí.
Cerimonial Sacred is a Christian symphonic black metal (unblack metal) band from Santa Bárbara d'Oeste, São Paulo, Brazil, originally formed in 1998 under the name Mortificado. The duo of brothers Melancton Samengalef and Abissai Darkaliel blends symphonic black metal intensity with overtly Christian lyrical themes, referencing the sacred rituals of worship in the band's name. Their catalog includes the album "Our War Is Only Against Hell" (2005, Extreme Records) and "Christ Worshippers," released through Vision of God Records.
Chaosweaver formed in Helsinki, Finland in 2004, constructing a symphonic black metal sound augmented with industrial electronic elements and thematic interests in theoretical physics, Finnish mythology, and chaos theory. The band drew compositional influence from Jean Sibelius, Carl Orff, and Richard Wagner alongside extreme metal predecessors. They have released two studio albums and maintained a relatively low profile within the Finnish metal underground.
Dark Triumph is a symphonic black metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2022 and operating as an unsigned independent act. The band's lyrical themes revolve around agony, darkness, and death. They released their debut album "Black Chaos Legion" in January 2022, with a remastered edition issued in January 2024, featuring eight tracks that blend orchestral arrangements with black metal aggression.
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