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Richmond, Virginia crossover/grindcore/powerviolence band formed in 2019, channeling maximum aggression across genre lines in the city's unruly extreme underground.
Melodic death metal act from Novosibirsk, active since 2016. Cain the Whaler delivers hook-driven extreme metal from the Siberian capital.
Death-doom act from Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East, formed in 2017. Cain Will Rise merges death metal brutality with doom pacing from the Amur River city near the Chinese border.
Raw black metal band from London, formed in 2021. Named after a Bloodborne location, they deliver lo-fi, primitive black metal from the English capital.
Atmospheric black metal band from Southampton, England, formed in 2014. They craft vast, immersive atmospheres within a black metal framework from the English south coast.
Chicago solo project by Samu Rahn of Embittered, Wintering, and The Living Fields, weaving black metal and neofolk into elegiac, multi-genre compositions.
Indianapolis black/death/doom metal band formed in 2020, navigating the suffocating overlap of three of extreme metal's darkest subgenres.
Birmingham, Alabama black metal project with roots going back to 1999, known for unpredictable stylistic range from raw old-school black metal to neofolk and post-black.
Black metal act from Almada, across the Tagus from Lisbon, formed in 2019. Caixão — Portuguese for 'coffin' — channels raw, morbid black metal.
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