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Black Anvil are a black metal and thrash metal band from New York City, formed in 2007 by former members of hardcore punk act Kill Your Idols, including guitarist/vocalist Paul Delaney, guitarist Gary Bennett, and drummer Raeph Glicken. Their debut Time Insults the Mind (2008) was followed by Triumvirate (2010) and Hail Death (2014) on Relapse Records, each album moving further from their hardcore origins toward a dense, riff-driven approach shaped by old-school black metal and classic heavy metal. The band's name references both Black Sabbath and a Judas Priest song.
Black Void is a Norwegian black metal and punk project spearheaded by Lars Are Nedland, also known from Borknagar and Solefald, alongside drummer Tobias Solbakk (Ihsahn, In Vain) and guitarist Jostein Thomassen (Borknagar). Conceived as a philosophical counterpoint to Nedland's White Void project, the band released its debut album Antithesis through Nuclear Blast in May 2022, channeling fifty years of punk and forty years of Norwegian black metal through the lens of Nietzschean philosophy.
Blackbraid is an Indigenous black metal project from the Adirondack Mountains of New York, created by Sgah'gahsowáh, also known as Jon Krieger. Emerging in 2022 with Blackbraid I, the project quickly drew attention for combining melodic and atmospheric black metal with a deep relationship to landscape, rage, grief, and Indigenous identity. Blackbraid II and Blackbraid III expanded the scope, bringing more confidence, sharper production, and a broader sense of ceremony without losing the project's raw force. The music uses tremolo riffs, blast beats, sweeping melodic lines, acoustic passages, and flute or nature-linked textures to create a sound that feels rooted in mountains, forests, and memory. Blackbraid's songs often address colonial violence, spiritual endurance, ancestral presence, and the overwhelming power of the natural world, but they do so through black metal's intensity rather than detached explanation. The project matters because it brings a distinct voice into a genre that often leans on European myth and cold abstraction. Blackbraid's strength is not only representation; it is songwriting. The riffs are memorable, the atmosphere is immersive, and the emotional stakes feel immediate. The music is fierce, mournful, and proudly tied to place.
Burial Oath rise from Cleveland, Ohio channeling the cold fury of Scandinavian black metal through an American lens, drawing inspiration from Watain, Taake, and Mayhem. Founded in 2016, the band weaves death rituals and occult Satanic themes through raw, tremolo-picked aggression and blast-beat fury. Their devotion to the second wave black metal aesthetic gives them an authenticity that resonates with purists of the genre.
Sweden's Craft, originally formed under the name Nocta in 1994, deal in a corrosive, deliberately primitive strain of black metal indebted to Burzum and Darkthrone but sharpened by a uniquely nihilistic and misanthropic edge. Across five albums — from the crushing debut Total Soul Rape (2000) through the acclaimed White Noise and Black Metal (2018) — they have maintained an uncompromising hostility to musical trend and commercial ambition, earning a devoted cult following in the underground for their unwavering commitment to black metal's most austere values.
Finland's Cvlt Ov The Svn emerged in 2018 as an anonymous, one-person project that cheekily coined the term "occult murder pop" to describe their disorienting fusion of black metal atmospherics, gothic rock darkness, and seductive pop melodicism — a combination nodding to Ghost, Type O Negative, and Marilyn Manson in equal measure. Signed to Napalm Records, the project's 2021 debut We Are the Dragon brought their provocative aesthetic to a wider audience, making them one of the more intriguing and idiosyncratic voices in Finnish extreme music.
Daemonarch were a one-off Portuguese black metal side project formed in 1998 by four of the five members of Moonspell, conceived as a vehicle for vocalist Fernando Ribeiro to revisit the band's earlier, rawer black metal roots after a stretch of gothic metal experimentation. Their sole album Hermeticum (1998), released on Century Media, is a focused and atmospheric conjuration of melodic black metal anchored in occult poetry Ribeiro wrote as a teenager, and remains a cult artifact among fans of early-period Moonspell and European black metal.
Bavarian black metal outfit Dark Fortress formed in 1994 and steadily evolved from a raw, melodically aggressive debut through increasingly progressive and technically sophisticated territory, blending metaphysical horror, occult spirituality, and sophisticated compositional ambition across seven studio albums released primarily through Century Media. Highlighted by standout records Stab Wounds (2004) and Séance (2005), and featuring cover art by Travis Smith, the band distinguished themselves as one of Germany's most serious and intellectually rigorous black metal acts before disbanding in 2023.
Stockholm's Dark Funeral are one of the supreme exemplars of Swedish melodic black metal, founded in 1993 by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman and unleashed upon the world with their 1996 debut The Secrets of the Black Arts — an album widely hailed as one of the first anthemic melodic black metal records and a landmark of the Scandinavian second wave. With seven full-length albums and a reputation for uncompromising Satanic extremity and blazing, precision-engineered guitar work, they remain among the most prominent and unrelenting acts the genre has produced.
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