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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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Black Ninja (2013)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Black metal band from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2013. They deliver cold, intense black metal shaped by the traditions of the genre's European heritage.
San Jose's ColdClaw operates at the intersection of black and death metal, carving out a sound that owes as much to Scandinavian darkness as it does to the Bay Area's storied extreme metal underground.
Virginia Beach's Coldcocked specializes in the punishing low-end crush of slam death metal, pairing guttural vocal extremity with breakdowns designed to level venues and test the structural integrity of stage floors.
Melodic blackened death metal act from Rostov-on-Don, active since 2016. Colder than Moon delivers melody-infused extreme metal from the southern Russian steppe.
Black metal band from London, formed in 2023. They deliver dark, intense black metal from the English capital.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Barcelos, northern Portugal, formed in 2024. Coldfear blends melodic extremity with hardcore intensity from the Minho region.
Drawing from the hilly border country of West Virginia and Ohio, Coldfells fuses black metal's bleakness with the crawling despair of doom, evoking something genuinely regional — the slow erosion of post-industrial Appalachian landscapes.
Death metal act from Oslo, formed in 2020. Coldflesh brings chilling death metal to the Norwegian capital's extreme underground.
Black metal band from Lincolnshire, England, active since 2013. They craft cold, frost-themed black metal from the English fenlands.
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