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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Wałbrzych's Sznur practice black metal from the Lower Silesian mountain town since 2018. Their Polish name meaning "string" or "cord" channels the binding of darkness into atmospheric compositions from the Owl Mountains.
Warsaw's Sznyt practice raw black metal from the Polish capital since 2020. Their Polish name meaning "cut" or "slash" channels edged violence into lo-fi compositions of capital-city extremity.
Gdańsk's Szpony craft gothic metal from the Baltic coast since 2026. Their Polish name meaning "claws" and Pomeranian port origins channel predatory elegance into darkly romantic compositions.
Piła's Szron practice black metal from the Wielkopolska town since 2016. Their Polish name meaning "hoarfrost" channels the crystalline cold of Polish winters into atmospheric compositions of ice-bound darkness.
Gliwice's Szubienica practice black metal from the Upper Silesian city since 2010. Their Polish name meaning "gallows" channels execution-ground darkness into over a decade of industrial-city atmospheric extremity.
Szel blend raw black metal with ambient from the Spanish underground, their Hungarian-word name ("wind") adding an unexpected Central European dimension to their Iberian compositions. Active since 2017, they bring wind-swept darkness to the Spanish black metal scene.
Death metal duo from Altamira, Pará, Brazil, formed in January 2013, with André Maia on bass and vocals and Luiz Quaresma on guitars, vocals, and drum programming. The band released three albums in quick succession — Grotesque Fascination for Dismemberment (2013), Acts of Sadistic Cruelty (2014), and Repulsive Orgy With Dismembered Whores (2015) — before going dormant, then returned with Paths of Inhumanity in 2023. Their lyrics center on sadism, dismemberment, and the extinction of the human race.
Reykjavik's Sálarkvöl practice black metal with an Icelandic name meaning "soul torment" since 2020. Their native-language identity roots them firmly in the volcanic island's tradition of atmospheric extremity.
Sárnes is a black metal band from Burlington, Vermont, formed in 2018, drawing on Scandinavian black metal aesthetics while rooted in the cold, rural atmosphere of the New England landscape.
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