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Sprawling black metal project with members scattered across Spokane, Rochester, Saint Paul, and Chicago. Since 2010 they've assembled an impressive nine-release discography of atmospheric black metal that draws its expansive sound from the vast distances between its creators, with Ascension and Abreaction standing as particular highlights.
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin groove and heavy metal hybrid forging their own path since 2015. Their self-titled debut and follow-up Scene of a Broken World blend NWOTHM melodicism with groove metal punch, and their live recordings capture a band that translates their studio precision into raw stage energy.
Amily crafts doom and death metal from Rivne since 2012. Over a decade from this northwestern Ukrainian city on the Ustya River, they have built a body of dual-genre heaviness.
Delaware black metal project that surfaced in 2025 with the EP Seeker of Forbidden Shores. A fresh voice in a state not known for its black metal scene, channeling the genre's atmospheric traditions through an East Coast lens.
Amimia channels depressive black metal from Dortmund since 2024, named after the medical term for the inability to make facial expressions. From the Ruhr Valley's industrial heartland, they explore emotional paralysis through DSBM's anguished sonic vocabulary.
Herrin, Illinois extreme metal entity maintaining a relentless output since 2015. Eleven releases spanning black metal, death metal, and everything between demonstrate an insatiable creative appetite, with their catalog ranging from raw early EPs to more refined recent singles like An Unwanted Possessor.
Amira Elfeky writes dark, immersive songs that pull early-2000s nu metal, gothic rock, and shoegaze haze into a modern heavy-pop shape. Her first wave of attention came through "Your Face," but the Skin to Skin EP showed the broader architecture of the project: low-tuned guitars, slow-burning drums, layered vocals, and melodies that feel romantic, wounded, and ominous at once. Surrender leaned further into heaviness, making the Deftones, Linkin Park, Evanescence, and System of a Down reference points feel like ingredients rather than costume pieces. Elfeky's voice is the anchor, often beginning in a hushed, intimate register before blooming into a larger chorus or sinking into thick distortion. The songs are not built around speed or technical display; they use atmosphere, repetition, and pressure to make desire, grief, and obsession feel heavy. Her strongest work sounds suspended between bedroom confession and huge amplifier wash, giving the current nu-gaze revival a gothic, emotionally direct center.
Amissa delivers melodic death metal from Stockholm since 2008. Their Latin name meaning 'lost things' drives nearly two decades of compositions that search for meaning through melodic extremity from the Swedish capital.
A solo project by Tereza V., Amissa Anima — Latin for 'Lost Soul' — is a one-woman depressive black metal undertaking from Liberec, Czech Republic. Her 2019 album Anamnesa, a self-released eight-track full-length, handles all composition, instruments, drums, vocals, mixing, and mastering without outside contribution, presenting an intimate and bleak atmospheric journey.
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