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Culto Negro is a black/speed metal band from Heredia, Costa Rica, formed in 2015 and self-described as playing "abismal speed metal." The band released their debut EP Abismal Speed Metal in 2016 and their first full-length La noche oscura del alma in 2022 through Godz ov War Productions, with lyrical themes encompassing spiritualism, occultism, and witchery. A 10-year retrospective compilation, 10 años de Abismal Speed Metal, followed in 2026.
Culto Primitivo is a thrash metal and hardcore band from Venado Tuerto, Argentina, formed in 2017. The band — vocalist Atuel, bassist Pol, drummer Matías, and guitarist Nacho — released a self-titled debut album on September 19, 2017, delivering eleven tracks of aggressive crossover-edged thrash from the Argentine interior.
Death metal band from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, formed in 2017. They deliver profane death metal from the Canary Islands.
Black metal project from Belgium, formed in 2017. Devoted to the worship of the night, they create dark and ritualistic black metal steeped in nocturnal atmosphere and occult tradition.
Herndon, Virginia's Cultum Draculesti are a duo devoted to vampyric black/doom metal that prioritizes slow, doomish tempos and an atmosphere of Gothic darkness over raw aggression. Formed in 2020 from the ashes of Spinster City, their self-titled 2021 debut established a sound of atmospheric rawness steeped in mythology, death, and darkened beauty.
Blackened death metal act from Warsaw, formed in 2017. Cultum Interitum — Latin for 'worship of destruction' — channels dark aggression from the Polish capital.
Black-death metal band from Bellcaire d'Emporda in Girona province, Spain, formed in 2019. They channel death-worshipping darkness through blackened death metal from the Catalan Emporda.
New Orleans's Cultum Nocte apply the Crescent City's longstanding tradition of extreme, ritualistic metal to a black/death framework, producing music that carries the oppressive humidity and occult atmosphere of their surroundings. The Louisiana band operates as part of a local underground that has always thrived at metal's most uncompromising edges.
Heavy metal band from Sula on Norway's western coast, formed in 2018. Cultural Abomination brings traditional metal to the remote island communities of Møre og Romsdal.
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