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Undercover Scumbag (2018)
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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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The Black Zombie Procession from Besançon evolved from punk rock origins into crossover, hardcore, and thrash metal, channeling the undead parade their ghoulish name demands since 2017. Their Franche-Comté base provides an unexpected setting for their zombie-themed aggression.
The Blackening from Pamplona in Navarra deliver thrash and groove metal with the corrosive intensity their name suggests since 2020. Their Basque Country-adjacent base infuses their riff-heavy assault with the fierce independence of northern Spain.
The Blacktones from Cagliari deliver sludge metal from the Sardinian capital since 2012. Over a decade of pitch-dark compositions from the Mediterranean island.
The Bleedout is a deathcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing deathcore from the Finnish capital.
The Blessing Way is a melodic death/gothic metal band from Galway, Ireland, formed in 2018. They weave gothic atmospheres and dark romanticism into melodic death metal structures with emotional depth.
Coral Springs, Florida's The Blind Beholder operate in the atmospheric and depressive wing of black metal, building music that uses the genre's cold, minimalist textures to conjure isolation and inward collapse rather than outward fury. Formed in 2018, they channel something genuinely bleak into their sound — the kind of heavy music that feels less like an assault than a slow disappearance.
The Blizzard from Milan deliver heavy and power metal with the storm-force intensity their wintry name demands since 2020. Their Lombardy base channels ice-storm ferocity through melodic compositions.
Death metal/deathcore band from Bad Ischl, Upper Austria, The Blood Mile formed in 2008 and were active until 2012. Their sound merged melodic death metal structures with raw hardcore-influenced breakdowns, drawing comparisons to The Black Dahlia Murder.
Atlanta's The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir are a 2025 arrival bringing a choral, atmospheric dimension to black metal — the name alone suggests scale and ceremony, a sound conceived for open spaces and gathering darkness rather than small rooms. They emerge from a city with an increasingly restless extreme metal underground, adding a layer of ritualistic ambition to an already fertile scene.
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