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Black metal project from Budakeszi, Hungary, active since 2015. The project channels black metal from the town in the Buda Hills near Budapest.
Polish black metal project formed in 2022. The project channels raw, fiery black metal.
Thrash metal band from Santiago, Chile, rooted in the Bay Area sound of the late 1980s. They released the Advance LP in January 2019 on Misfortune Records as a limited cassette edition of 100 copies.
Raw black metal project from Vinnytsia, Ukraine, active since 2012. Over a decade of lo-fi, abrasive black metal from the central Ukrainian city.
Old Grave channel the primitive savagery of Hellhammer, Celtic Frost, and Venom into a blackened death metal attack built around the core trio of Jonas Hoerlle (drums), Jailson Santos (guitar), and Marcelo Scheeren (vocals). The band cut their teeth performing regionally before entering the studio to record their 2020 demo, a raw document of their devotion to first-wave extremity.
Seattle's Old Iron drag doom and sludge through the Pacific Northwest rain with the heavy patience of a city that knows how to let grief breathe. Formed in 2014, they've built a sound that's slow, corrosive, and deeply committed to heaviness as atmosphere.
Black metal project from Penmarch, a town at the tip of Brittany, France, formed in 2023. Named after the korrigans of Breton folklore — mischievous fairy-like creatures — the project channels Celtic mythology through black metal from France's westernmost point.
Sudbury's Old Man Lizard cranks out fuzz-drenched stoner and sludge metal with a freewheeling, jam-oriented approach that channels the spirit of the desert rock tradition. Their thick, distorted grooves and laid-back swagger recall Kyuss and Weedeater.
Old Man's Child is a Norwegian symphonic black metal project founded in 1993 in Oslo by guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Galder, who has remained its sole permanent member throughout its existence. The band's debut Born of the Flickering arrived in 1996, followed by a string of Century Media releases through the 2000s including The Pagan Prosperity (1997), Revelation 666 (2000), In Defiance of Existence (2003), and Vermin (2005). Galder, who also served as a guitarist for Dimmu Borgir from 2002 to 2024, reactivated the project in 2019 to record new material after a decade-long hiatus.
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