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Christophobia is a black metal band from Arapongas, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2014 and signed to Rotthenness Records. Their sound draws on old-school black metal with themes of anti-dogmatism, satanism, and death, blending dense, melancholic passages with fast and aggressive riffing. The band released the EP "Lágrimas de Sangue" in 2018 and has continued releasing material through their Bandcamp page.
Nashville brutal death and slam outfit Christorment brings bone-crushing low-tuned riffs and guttural vocals to a city better known for country, making them a genuine outlier in the Tennessee underground. Their slam-inflected style is uncompromising in its physical heaviness.
Death-grind act from Novosibirsk, active since 2015. ChristoSadist delivers blasphemous, blast-driven extremity from the Siberian capital.
Chicago thrash band Christpuncher keeps the genre's antagonistic spirit alive with loud, fast, and caustic riff-work. They operate in the raw, no-frills end of the thrash spectrum that values aggression above technical polish.
Lexington, Kentucky black/thrash act Christrape channels the genre's most confrontational impulses into a raw and venomous sound. Their approach draws on the first-wave black metal and speed metal traditions that defined the genre's most corrosive early output.
Progressive metal act from Évora in the Alentejo region, formed in 2018. ChristShade crafts intricate progressive metal from one of Portugal's most historic cities.
Black-thrash metal band from Grossbruchter in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver blasphemous, high-speed black-thrash from the rural German heartland.
Operating from Bastos, a small city in the deep interior of Sao Paulo state, Christum Spurious sits squarely in the raw, old-school wing of Brazilian black metal — the strain less concerned with polish than with capturing a desecratory ritual on tape. The project's documented full-length, Profana Sacristia, surfaced in 2020 and circulates through underground channels and aggregator sites like Lycanthropia, the kind of release that travels by word of mouth in tape-trading circles rather than through publicity machines. Even the name reads like a thesis: Christum Spurious — false or bastard Christ — paired with an album title that translates to profane sacristy, an inversion of the holy space where Catholic vestments are kept. That blasphemy-as-aesthetic lineage runs straight back through Brazil's earliest extreme metal — Sarcofago, Mystifier, Vulcano — bands that fused first-wave South American filth with overt anti-Christian iconography decades before such gestures became standard. Christum Spurious works that same vein with intentionally primitive production: trebly tremolo guitars, distant drums, cracked-throat vocals, the whole assembly mixed to feel like a fourth-generation cassette dub. Where the more visible Sao Paulo scene clusters around the capital and ABC cities, projects like this one underscore how raw black metal in Brazil has long been an interior-state phenomenon, finding fertile ground in towns far from the major venues and labels. Christum Spurious has left behind a thin but pointed footprint — a single full-length, a clearly stated theological grudge, and an aesthetic that prizes obscurity as a feature rather than a bug. For listeners chasing the lineage of Brazilian raw and bestial black metal beyond its canonical names, Profana Sacristia is the kind of artifact the genre's underground economy was built to preserve.
Baton Rouge doom and sludge metal band Christworm trades in slow, suffocating heaviness shaped by the heat and humidity of Louisiana's Southern gothic atmosphere. Their riffs crawl and distort, leaning into the oppressive weight that defines the best of the Southern sludge tradition.
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