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Ukrainian experimental black metal project, newly formed in 2025 and pushing black metal into unconventional territory. Their name channels the earth's spherical layers through experimental, boundary-defying black metal.
Russian black metal project formed in 2022, channeling raw hostility through Slavic-tinged black metal. Their lupine name channels the predatory, wolf-pack character of their blackened approach.
Polish black metal/experimental project from Warsaw, pushing boundaries since 2020. Their name, meaning 'February' in Polish, channels the coldest, harshest month through experimental black metal.
Luvart is a black metal band from Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil, originally active in 1993–1995 before reforming in 2009 and continuing to release material through the 2020s. Their 2023 album Until the Void, released by the French label Drakkar Productions, carries particular weight as it was completed amid the death of bassist Necromayhem during the recording sessions, making it a tribute to a fallen member and one of the band's darkest records.
Polish melodic gothic/death metal band from Lublin, blending dark romanticism with aggressive intensity since 2018. Their name, meaning 'light in darkness,' captures the interplay between beauty and heaviness in their sound.
Lux in Tenebris is a progressive heavy metal project from Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina, built around guitarist, bassist, and drummer Walter Erles (formerly of Armagedón), with vocalist Adso Maidana and keyboardist Alberto Méndez. Erles handles all recording, mixing, and mastering duties in-house; their catalog includes the self-titled debut (2014), Sangre Inocente (2017), and Cultus Paganus (2022). The band's seven-track third album Cultus Paganus, released June 2022, includes the epic ten-minute closer "Imperio de mil blasfemias."
French gothic/doom metal band from Paris, self-described as 'Doom Death Prog from France' with influences spanning Paradise Lost, My Dying Bride, and Cathedral. Their 2022 album 'Dark Odyssey' features seven tracks across 58 minutes, including a fifteen-minute opening composition.
Lux Inferium is a black metal project from Chavantes, São Paulo, Brazil, conceived by the musician known as Funestus and rooted in industrial black metal influences ranging from Limbonic Art and Mysticum to the Brazilian extreme metal tradition. The project's early recordings, including the Black Souls Procession demo (2006), later served as source material for Funestus's subsequent band Sadomystic, with re-recorded versions appearing on that group's later releases.
Russian black/death metal band from Moscow, formed in 2023 and merging blackened fury with death metal brutality. Their name, meaning 'light of Lucifer,' channels Luciferian illumination through extreme metal.
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