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Actin' Up (2023)
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Fertile Green (2012)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Madison, Wisconsin trio Cthonian Lich crawl through a swampy fusion of doom, sludge, and stoner metal, conjuring psychedelic dread from the Midwest. Their riffs move like shifting tectonic plates — slow, heavy, and unstoppable.
Columbus, Ohio outfit Cthultists blend the brutality of death metal with the sludgy weight of post-hardcore influences, creating dense, suffocating music soaked in occult atmosphere. Their name signals their dedication to the dark and abyssal end of the genre.
Black-doom-progressive-stoner act from Rotterdam, formed in 2019. Cthuluminati merges Lovecraftian cosmic horror with genre-defying metal that spans doom, black, progressive, and stoner traditions.
Black-doom-sludge metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland, emerging in 2025. They merge black metal darkness with doom-sludge weight from the Finnish-Russian borderlands.
Atmospheric black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2017. They craft vast, Lovecraftian-themed atmospheric black metal from the Finnish capital.
Sacramento, California's Ctrl+All+Delete operate at the collision of black metal atmosphere and sludge metal weight, crafting dissonant, chaotic music that feels like a system-wide failure. Their sound is abrasive and disorienting by design.
Dallas, Texas death metal act Ctrl+Alt+Delete bring technical aggression and a sardonic edge to the Lone Star underground. Their riff-heavy approach is direct and punishing, with a nod to classic Texas metal ferocity.
Avant-garde black-death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2024. They push extreme metal into unconventional territory from the French capital.
Black metal band from Delmenhorst, Germany, active since 2008. Named after a Lovecraftian deity, Ctulu craft cosmic and occult-themed black metal from the Lower Saxon flatlands.
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