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A São Paulo trio grinding death, thrash, and doom into a single bleak weight, Obsessor channel themes of societal decay and depression through a rawly recorded, underground aesthetic. Their self-released demo material captures a band firmly rooted in the South American extreme metal tradition with no concession to polish.
One of the early extreme metal acts out of São José dos Campos, Obsessos played caustic death/thrash driven by Satanic and occult imagery in the spirit of the mid-1980s South American underground. Their 1987 demo 666: The Ultimate — featuring tracks like "Scream of Priests" and "Satan's Procreation" — stands as a raw document of the era before the band dissolved in 1988.
Los Angeles death metal project Obsidian Hooves emerged in 2020 with a sound that's dense, occult-tinged, and built around suffocating low-end weight. They draw from the genre's most primitive instincts while maintaining a distinctly L.A. sense of menace.
Obsidian Kingdom is a progressive and post-metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2005, whose sound has been characterized as drawing equally from progressive rock, post-metal, black metal, alternative, and electronic music. Their 2012 debut Mantiis drew attention for its eclectic approach, while A Year with No Summer (2016) on Season of Mist refined the band's identity into something genuinely difficult to categorize. MEAT MACHINE (2020) pushed the band further into industrial and alternative territory, cementing their reputation as one of Spain's most adventurous extreme music outfits.
German post-black metal band from Cologne, blending atmospheric beauty with blackened intensity since 2016. Their sharp, cutting name channels the precision of their post-black metal approach.
San Diego's Obsidian Rite began in doom before gravitating toward black metal's harsher cold, and the tension between those two impulses gives their music its distinctive, brooding character. Formed in 2023, they're already building something that feels genuinely ominous.
Symphonic metal band from Nagykáta, Hungary, active since 2008. Their long-running project delivers orchestral metal from the small town east of Budapest.
Virginia's Obsidian Sorrow launched in 2024 as a death/thrash project with an appetite for controlled chaos — punishing tempos, riff-forward aggression, and a clear reverence for the genre's most ferocious roots. Fresh out of the Suffolk underground with something to prove.
Leipzig black metal/punk hybrid formed in 2024, welding blackened ferocity to punk's confrontational energy. Saxony's capital has long nurtured crossover acts that blur genre boundaries, and this project continues that lineage.
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