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UK black metal project formed in 2017. They craft dark, despairing black metal.
Orlando's Cold Dead Hands deal in deathcore-informed brutality, stacking heavy breakdowns and death metal riffing with a predatory aggression that has made them a force in the Florida metal scene.
Gothic metal band from Gladenbach, Germany, formed in 2015. They weave melancholic atmospheres and dark beauty into a heavy, emotionally resonant sound.
Black metal band from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, formed in 2020. They channel cold, desolate black metal from the windswept Baltic coast.
Doom metal band from Lubeck, Germany, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of activity, Cold Embrace are among the most enduring doom acts in northern Germany.
Black metal project from Lublin in eastern Poland, active since 2012. Cold Empty Universe channels desolate, atmospheric black metal from the city near the Belarusian border.
Black metal band from Manchester, England, active since 2013. They deliver cold, atmospheric black metal from northern England.
Blackened death metal act from Verona, formed in 2014. Cold Fire merges icy black metal atmospheres with death metal ferocity.
Cold Forest is a dungeon synth and atmospheric black metal project from São Paulo, Brazil, active from 2013. The project released albums including "A Journey Through Cosmic Infinity" and "Misantrópica Jornada Obscura" in 2013, blending dark ambient and drone textures with black metal atmosphere, and later explored Tolkien-inspired themes with releases such as "In the Land of Mordor."
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