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Actin' Up (2023)
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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Black metal and ambient project from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2014. The project blends black metal's ferocity with ambient's vast, spacious atmospherics under a celestial thematic umbrella.
German black/death metal project active since 2015, known for a chaotic, war-metal-adjacent approach to extreme music. Their output favors relentless speed and sonic density, pushing both genres toward their most unhinged extremes.
The Bronx's Omen Faculty bring industrial metal's mechanical menace and groove metal's locked-in rhythmic attack to New York City's hardened underground. Since 2011, they've been fusing electronic texture with metal muscle in a way that feels entirely native to the city's relentless energy.
Barakaldo pagan black metal act from the Basque Country, active since 2018. Their fusion of pre-Christian Basque themes with black metal's hostility taps into a deep well of regional identity and ancient tradition.
Omens of Plague is a Buenos Aires metalcore/melodic death metal band formed in 2009, featuring vocalist Gonzalo Roland, guitarists Francisco Cañardo and Nahuel Hadouken, bassist Rodrigo Ferreiro, and drummer Pazuzu Imdugud. The band released their debut full-length The Merciless Beyond on May 10, 2017, a 12-track record that drew praise for its technical guitar work and melodic death metal songwriting.
Scorching Black Metal from Hammond, Louisiana (early); Houston, Texas (mid); United States / Colombia (later).
San Francisco's Ominous Ruin deal in technical brutal death metal with a surgical precision that makes their most devastating passages feel almost architectural. Since 2015, they've stood as one of the Bay Area's sharpest exponents of technically demanding extremity.
Malmo brutal death metal project formed in 2026, the freshest entry in southern Sweden's extreme metal pipeline. Early material suggests an allegiance to the most punishing end of the death metal spectrum.
Zaragoza black metal act active since 2015, contributing to Aragon's modest but dedicated extreme metal underground. A decade of output from this inland Spanish city has produced consistently hostile, uncompromising black metal.
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