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Cold, unrelenting black metal from Budapest / Zalaegerszeg, active since 2014. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Black Mass was a Black/Thrash Metal band from Belém, Pará, Brazil, formed in 2013. Operating out of northern Brazil’s oldest metal city, the band blended raw black metal aesthetics with thrash metal aggression. They released music independently, including material available through their Bandcamp page, before splitting up.
Finnish black metal and punk band from Tornio, formed in 2016. They merge black metal's darkness with punk's raw energy from the Swedish-Finnish border.
Black Mausoleum was a black metal project from San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, that released a self-titled Demo 2023 on Bandcamp in March of that year. The four-track demo showcased a raw, extreme black metal approach before the band dissolved shortly after its release.
The Hague-based thrash metal act active since 2013, delivering riff-driven aggression rooted in the genre's foundational principles of speed, precision, and relentless energy. Their material channels the spirit of 1980s thrash through a Dutch filter.
Finnish death/black metal band from Lappeenranta, formed in 2025. They deliver miasmic death/black metal from the southeastern border region.
Black Mirrors is a Brussels, Belgium rock band formed in 2013 by singer Marcella Di Troia, drawing from blues rock and garage rock with influences spanning Janis Joplin, Jack White, and Queens of the Stone Age. After self-releasing early material, the band attracted the attention of Austrian label Napalm Records at the 2015 Out and Loud festival. Their debut full-length Look into the Black Mirror arrived in August 2018, charting in Belgium, followed by Tomorrow Will Be Without Us in November 2022.
French atmospheric black metal band from Lyon, formed in 2025. They deliver mole-dark atmospheric black metal from France's second city.
German heavy/groove metal and rock band from Erfurt, formed in 2020. They blend heavy and groove metal weight with hard rock energy from the Thuringian capital.
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