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Karçaz is a solo black metal project from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, created by Lucas Damaso under the pseudonym Profanus Damasus at the end of 2023. The name is derived from the Portuguese word "carcaça" (carcass), and the project spans black metal, black/death, and atmospheric styles across numerous self-released recordings including Hávamál, Aeternum Tormentum, and Codex Regius, all made available on streaming platforms in 2024.
A product of the birthplace of black metal, this Kristiansand-based black metal act channels frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Active since 2020, blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Leipzig-based sludge/doom/post-metal band active since 2007, building massive sonic architectures over nearly two decades in the Saxonian underground. Their extended compositions layer sludge's abrasive weight with post-metal's dynamic crescendos.
Straddling the line between death metal and thrash metal, this Turkish actfrom Ankara fuses technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2009, and their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Kasbeel is a black metal band from Temuco, Chile, signed to Australis Records, whose name is drawn from the fallen angel Kasbeel described in the Book of Enoch — the guardian who rebelled against God after witnessing his self-crowning. Their 2015 full-length Rebellion and Opposition, recorded at Acusti-k Studios in Temuco, delivers raw and violent black metal with satanic and anti-Christian themes, drawing comparisons to Darkthrone and Marduk.
Kasbeel is a black metal band from Temuco, Chile, signed to Australis Records, whose name is drawn from the fallen angel Kasbeel described in the Book of Enoch — the guardian who rebelled against God after witnessing his self-crowning. Their 2015 full-length Rebellion and Opposition, recorded at Acusti-k Studios in Temuco, delivers raw and violent black metal with satanic and anti-Christian themes, drawing comparisons to Darkthrone and Marduk.
Black metal band from Bristol, active since 2015 and rooted in the atmospheric and aggressive currents of the genre. Their sound channels the raw intensity and dark atmosphere that define the UK's underground black metal scene.
Aurora, Illinois epic black metal project Kasek-Nos arrived in 2021 with a sound that reaches for grandeur — sweeping, atmosphere-drenched compositions rooted in the most grandiose traditions of the genre.
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