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A Love To Kill For (2023)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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A product of Scandinavia's melodic death metal epicenter, this Gothenburg-based atmospheric black metal and black metal act channels raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Active since 2017, lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Pittsburgh's Elizabeth Short, named after the Black Dahlia murder victim, channel grotesque history into their goregrind — a band as fixated on true crime's darkest chapters as they are on blasting drums and gargled vocals.
Elizabethan Walpurga is a blackened heavy metal band from Recife, Brazil, with roots stretching back to 1994 when the original members first formed together under a different name. After disbanding in 2002, the group reunited in 2015 and recorded their debut full-length Walpurgisnacht, released in October 2016 through Shinigami Records, blending traditional heavy metal with black metal and regional Brazilian musical influences.
Worcester's Elizabory blend gothic metal's romantic melancholy with black metal's cold fury, a combination that arrived fully formed when the band started in 2023 and already feels like it has its own haunted aesthetic.
Straddling the line between doom metal and gothic metal, this Dutch actfrom Zoetermeer fuses Type O Negative-school brooding grandeur with genuine emotional weight into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2019, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
When Eljudner emerged in 2006 from Lillehammer, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and folk metal — all acoustic instrumentation clashing productively with electric fury. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Belgian black metal act active since 2010, drawing on Norse mythology for both their name and creative vision. Their sound channels raw, second-wave-inspired black metal through a Belgian underground lens.
Cleveland's Elk Blood carry the Rust Belt's bleakness directly into their black metal, where the cold industrial sprawl of northern Ohio seeps into every tremolo run and blast beat.
Denver's Elk Hunter arrived in 2025 dragging metalcore's angular energy through sludge's mire, the band's mile-high origin reflected in a suffocating, high-altitude heaviness.
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