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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Black metal project from Reutov near Moscow, formed in 2022. Chernobog — named after the Slavic god of darkness — channels raw black metal.
Atmospheric black metal project from the Brest Region of Belarus, emerging in 2025. Their sound channels depressive and post-metal elements alongside raw black metal, as heard on the single My Last Tomorrow.
Depressive black metal project from Novorossiysk on the Black Sea coast, active since 2013. ChernoMor — a play on both 'Black Sea' and a character from Russian folklore — crafts melancholic black metal.
Black metal project from Izhevsk in the Udmurt Republic, formed in 2019. Chernota — Russian for 'blackness' — delivers raw black metal from the Ural region.
Black metal band from Bad Salzuflen, Germany, formed in 2021. Named after the ancient Germanic Cherusci tribe, they channel historical and pagan themes through raw black metal.
Black-grind project from Poland, formed in 2021. Chesslay fuses raw black metal with grinding blasts.
Black-death metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2020. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the Scottish capital.
Raw black metal project originating from Czechia, now based in Langasjo, Sweden, formed in 2024. They craft primitive, stripped-down black metal rooted in lo-fi aesthetics and uncompromising rawness.
Black metal project from Ufa, capital of Bashkortostan, active since 2015. Chevauchée — a medieval French term for a destructive mounted raid — channels warlike black metal.
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