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Philadelphia's Et in Arcadia Ego borrow their name from the memento mori tradition, applying that fatalistic weight to stark, aggressive black metal. The project has been carving its grim pastoral into the underground since 2023.
Hungarian black metal act, active since 2017 delivering second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Rooted in the Magyar underground's distinctive voice, their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Prague-based atmospheric death/doom metal supergroup featuring members of Dissolving of Prodigy, Self-Hatred, and Silent Stream of Godless Elegy. Their concept albums blend doom metal with diverse cultural themes, including the Japanese-inspired "Tamashii No Yama" which incorporates shakuhachi, cello, and harp alongside crushing heaviness.
Silver Spring's Et Mors traffic in the slowest, most suffocating corners of funeral doom and black metal, constructing cathedrals of grief note by agonizing note. Since 2017, the project has pursued an uncompromising vision of sonic desolation.
A product of Ukraine's battle-tested metal underground, this Kyiv-based doom metal and funeral doom metal act channels earth-shaking distortion and mournful clean passages. Active since 2021, mournful melodies surface between waves of suffocating heaviness.
When Et Mortuus Est in Luce emerged in 2014 from Moscow, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and doom metal — all raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Naples, Italy — doom metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2019, they deal in funeral-paced heaviness dripping with existential dread. Their compositions unfold like tectonic shifts — slow, inevitable, devastating.
Et Verbi Sathanus is a raw black metal band from Puerto Montt, Chile, playing a war-oriented style rooted in South American black and death metal traditions. Originally active as Gehinnon in 1997–1998, the band relaunched under their current name and released their debut full-length Satanae Pater Sanguinariv in 2013, recorded at Etagord Studios in Santiago. They followed it with a split 7" EP with Australian band Black Vul Destruktor on Sweden's Blood Harvest Records in 2014, limited to 300 copies.
Black metal project from Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France active since 2011. Named after one of the most luminous stars in the galaxy, they bring cosmic black metal from the French Riviera region.
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