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Narrative (Instrumental) (2022)
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Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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Depravity Favours the Bold (2016)
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Knoxville black metal project from the Tennessee underground.
Ancient Summoning is a German black metal band formed in 2022, working within the raw and ritualistic traditions of the genre. The band's name evokes the occult invocations and ancient darkness central to black metal's thematic core.
Columbia grindcore project from the South Carolina underground.
Pagan black metal band from Minsk, Belarus, operating under the Bandcamp handle "ancientfears" and rooted in pre-Christian Slavic and pagan themes. They blend raw black metal aggression with folk-inflected atmospheres drawn from Belarusian cultural mythology.
Los Angeles black/doom project debuting in 2025 with The Implications of Ascendancy. The EP blends black metal tremolo with doom metal's crushing pace, suggesting a band equally versed in both genres' darkest traditions.
Providence, Rhode Island black metal outfit with five releases since 2019. A prolific purveyor of frigid extremity from New England, their catalog — from The Descent Abysmal to Follow the Echo of Curses — traces an arc of increasing ambition within raw black metal's constraints.
Pittsburgh sludge metal project whose 2023 self-titled debut wallows in the kind of slow, agonizing heaviness the Steel City specializes in. The name is truth in advertising — this is music designed to crush.
Ancient Tower is an epic doom metal project from São Paulo, created in 2017 by Mateus Henrique, who also works under the banners Black Sun Void and Gateways to Oblivion. The project explores slow, heavy, atmospheric doom with releases including the album Darkened Horizons and a series of demos, all self-released through Bandcamp.
North Carolina sludge metal project.
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