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New Jersey's Cold Blank Stare craft harsh, spare black metal rooted in the cold, minimalist European tradition — distant production and bleak riffing create a suffocating wall of darkness.
Depressive black metal project from Kungur in the Perm region, formed in 2019. Cold Bleeding channels bleak despair from the ice cave town of the Ural foothills.
Los Angeles thrash veterans Cold Blood bring old-school precision and aggression to their work, channeling the Bay Area tradition through SoCal intensity in riff-forward, no-frills thrash metal.
Brutal death metal act from Moscow, active since 2014. Cold Blooded Murder delivers relentless brutality from the Russian capital.
Chico, California's Cold Blue Mountain blend sludge and stoner metal into thick, sun-baked dirges, layering languid heaviness with a psychedelic undercurrent that keeps the music expansive and hypnotic.
Cold Burial is an atmospheric black metal project from the greater São Paulo metropolitan area of Brazil, listed on Metal Archives with a formation date in the São Bernardo do Campo area. The band is an independent act operating within the Brazilian atmospheric and depressive black metal underground, with music available on their Bandcamp page. They are part of a broader wave of Brazilian atmospheric black metal acts active in the 2020s.
Minneapolis's Cold Colours fuse death metal's brutality with gothic metal's mournful atmosphere, producing a sound that is both punishing and laced with a melancholic, darkly romantic quality.
Durham, North Carolina's Cold Communion pair death metal aggression with doom metal's slower, grief-laden tempos, crafting music that is as emotionally desolate as it is physically crushing.
Black metal band from Guildford in Surrey, England, active since 2012. They channel cold darkness through black metal from the English Home Counties.
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