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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Little Rock, Arkansas black metal act Murkryth have been conjuring cold, misanthropic atmospheres since 2019, operating in the raw, orthodox end of the genre with minimal concern for accessibility. Arkansas black metal is a small but stubbornly surviving scene, and Murkryth are one of its more committed participants.
Emerging from La Cienega, New Mexico in 2023, Murkurselv play depressive black metal with the high-desert isolation of northern New Mexico running through every note — sparse, grief-saturated, and shaped by a landscape that feels removed from the rest of the world. The name itself has a Nordic quality that signals familiarity with DSBM's Scandinavian roots.
Chicago's Murmur occupy the experimental and progressive wing of black metal, bending the genre's orthodoxies outward into unexpected structural and tonal territory since 2021. Operating with an exploratory ethos, they blend progressive complexity with black metal's dark foundation in a way that resists easy genre reduction.
A black metal project from Gothenburg, Murmurs emerged in 2025. The project channels the whispered intensity of their name into atmospheric, subtle black metal.
Named after the silent film director F.W. Murnau, this Morrison, Illinois outfit blends progressive ambition with the crushing weight of doom metal, crafting slow-burning compositions that reward patient listeners. Active since 2008, they occupy a thoughtful corner of the Midwest underground where atmosphere and dynamics take precedence over brute force.
Muro is one of Spain's foundational speed metal acts, forging ahead from Madrid since the early 1980s with classics like 'Telón de Acero' and 'Acero y Sangre.' Reunited in 2009 with their classic lineup after multiple hiatuses, they remain pillars of the Iberian metal underground and one of the few surviving bands from Spain's 1980s metal explosion.
Murokhamma is an atmospheric/raw black metal project from the remote Kirov Oblast town of Kirovo-Chepetsk, formed in 2023. The project channels the isolation of the Vyatka river region into expansive, lo-fi black metal.
Out of Norwich, Connecticut, Murrum has been delivering raw, atmospheric black metal since 2013 with a sound rooted in the genre's second-wave coldness. Their work leans into dissonance and primitive intensity, fitting squarely within the underground New England black metal scene.
Portland, Oregon's Mursa channels the city's deep well of heavy music into caustic sludge metal built on slow, punishing riffs and abrasive texture. Active since 2013, the band embodies the grimy, feedback-laden aesthetic that defines the Pacific Northwest's harder underground.
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