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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Symphonic metal band from Dortmund, Germany, formed in 2023. They create grand, orchestral metal with lush arrangements from the Ruhr Valley.
Portland blackened death metal band Coven Oath combine the cold atmosphere of black metal with the blunt force of death metal into a dense and ritualistic sound. The Pacific Northwest's isolation and grey skies are palpable throughout their work.
Cleveland's Coven of Dysphoria play raw, emotionally corrosive black metal that channels the despair implicit in their name. Their approach is minimal and intense, prioritizing atmosphere and psychological weight over technical complexity.
Milanese black metal cult operating between Lombardy and Tuscany since 2020, devoted to Satanism, hell, and black magic through raw demo recordings and split releases with acts like The Rite and Goat Semen. Their output includes covers of Beherit, Impurity, and Sarcofago, placing them firmly in the bestial black metal underground.
Atmospheric black metal project from Germany, formed in 2023. They craft swamp-themed atmospheric black metal steeped in nature and occult darkness.
Elizabethton, Tennessee death metal band Coven of the Wretched bring Appalachian darkness to a genre not often associated with the region. Their sound is rough-edged and unpolished in all the right ways, reflecting a deep underground mentality.
Doom metal band from Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver slow, crushing doom steeped in occult themes and ritualistic darkness.
Fayetteville, Georgia's Covenant fuse groove metal's mid-tempo heaviness with thrash aggression and death metal bite. They operate in the tradition of mid-90s American metal, where crossover brutality was the defining characteristic.
Shreveport's Covenant deal in groove and thrash metal with a distinctly Southern backbone, built on heavy mid-tempo riffs and muscular song structures. Their sound fits comfortably alongside the hard-hitting regional tradition of Louisiana heavy music.
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