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Oklahoma black metal project. The name's melancholy — a life erased from memory — channels the Great Plains' vastness into atmospheric isolation.
Formed in Freiburg im Breisgau in 2018, A Ghost in Rags play instrumental post-metal that blends post-rock dynamics with doom heaviness, black metal riffing, and sludge undertow. Their debut album Akarano arrived in June 2022, followed by the announcement of their second full-length Solfatara for release in June 2025, both demonstrating the band's commitment to slow-unfolding, structure-defying compositions.
A Ghost Named Alice are a power and progressive metal outfit from Zell am See, Austria, blending melodic guitar work with a theatrical, driving energy. Their 2018 album It Feels Like Suicide and the 2021 follow-up A Room for My Enemies show a band navigating the tension between soaring hooks and heavier progressive textures, with the track 'Wolfchant' drawing the most attention.
A metalcore and thrash metal band from Dortmund formed in 2000, A Gift Called Anger brought together members of Frozen Illusion and Inhuman Conditions and spent years developing before recording their first demo Wounds in 2007. Their full-length The Rise, the Wounds, the Fear documents a band rooted in the NRW region's heavy underground tradition.
Aston, Pennsylvania death metal project. The archaic 'ov' spelling signals black metal influence, while the faint light of death promises a glimpse into the void.
A Goat as Our Shepherd are a Belgian death metal band operating across the groove and melodic death metal spectrum, releasing music under the agaos Bandcamp imprint. Their sound favours heavy rhythmic riffing and dynamic mid-paced passages drawn from the American groove-death tradition, with melodic lead work that softens the edges of an otherwise punishing approach.
Tallahassee, Florida black metal project inverting the deus ex machina concept. Instead of divine intervention solving problems, divinity itself emerges from technology.
Seattle black metal project. The philosophical name poses the ultimate question of identity — divine or alien, sacred or strange.
Zagreb's A Gram Trip deliver heavy doses of doom, sludge, and stoner metal with a name that plays on their Croatian capital's identity. Since 2021, they've crafted a thick, groove-laden sound that embodies the spirit of the riff.
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