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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Black metal project from Paris, France with roots stretching back to 1996. They are one of the French capital's earlier black metal outfits.
Electronic black metal project from Germany, formed in 2025, fusing the atmospheric darkness of black metal with electronic textures and nihilistic themes. Their approach pushes the genre into futuristic, technologically infused territory.
Black metal act from Sion in Switzerland's Valais region, forging dark, atmospheric extremity since 2007. Their name, Latin for "beginning," marks the starting point of a journey into alpine black metal darkness.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels black metal, heavy metal, and thrash metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2015, based in Stockholm, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
Firmly rooted in black metal, this Italian actfrom Naples delivers dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice without compromise. They've been at it since 2019, and atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Black metal project from Tours in the Loire Valley, France formed in 2020. They channel atonement through harsh black metal.
Black metal project from Belgium, conjuring raw, atmospheric darkness since 2015. Their sound embraces the genre's most austere and unadorned tendencies, stripping black metal down to its essential elements of tremolo picking and blast beats.
Black/doom metal project from Hagglingen, Switzerland, blending the atmospheric cold of black metal with doom's crushing weight since 2015. Their Latin name, meaning "drained of blood," captures the lifeless, suffocating atmosphere of their sound.
Emerging from Brescia, this Italian act forges Black Metal built on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere. Frostbitten riffing and anti-cosmic lyrical themes define their output.
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