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Ruthless Melodic Death Metal from Fort Worth.
Curitiba's Obsidian Void combine orchestral grandeur with black metal hostility, drawing on the symphonic tradition without smoothing out its abrasive edges. Tracks like "At the Bottom of the Abyss" and "Center of Nothing" signal a project preoccupied with darkness and cosmic void as thematic territory.
Symphonic black/death metal band from Italy's Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, with roots dating to 1999. Over two decades of orchestral extreme metal from the northeastern Italian borderlands.
Tucson's Obsidion bring desert heat to power metal's soaring register, blending arena-ready heaviness with the melodic ambition of classic US power metal. Since 2017, they've been one of Arizona's sharpest acts in the genre.
Obsidious is a German technical and progressive death metal band formed in 2020 by three former members of Obscura — guitarist Rafael Trujillo, bassist Linus Klausenitzer, and drummer Sebastian Lanser — joined by vocalist Javi Perera. The band coalesced immediately following their amicable departure from Obscura and quickly signed to Season of Mist, releasing their debut album Iconic, which carried forward the intricate, melodically sophisticated approach to technical death metal cultivated in their prior work with Obscura and Alkaloid.
Melodic death metal outfit from Chur in the Swiss Alps, honing their craft since 2017. Their Graubunden origins make them one of the few melodeath acts emerging from Switzerland's mountainous eastern cantons.
Atmospheric and post-black metal project from Albi in southern France's Occitanie region. The project channels contemplative, expansive post-black metal from the historic Cathar city.
Founded in 1989 in Fortaleza by brothers Amaudson and Jolson Ximenes, Obskure are among the longest-running extreme metal bands in the Brazilian northeast, fusing melodic death metal with doom and black metal undertones across a discography stretching from the demo Uterus and Grave (1990) to the full-length Dense Shades of Mankind (2012). Their 2001 EP The Emptiness Spectable featured a guest vocal appearance by Alex Camargo of Krisiun, and the band's 2017 release Sacrifice of the Wicked showed no signs of the grim relentlessness fading after nearly three decades.
Chicago's Obskurum carve out black metal that feels at home in an urban landscape — cold, isolating, and relentless, shaped by the Midwest's grey winters and underground metal culture. Formed in 2020, they bring a rawness to the Windy City's extreme scene that refuses to be polished away.
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