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Oh No! (2025)
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diorama (2024)
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Mt.Skull (2018)
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American black metal project Lorem Ipsum subverts the placeholder identity with corrosive intent, crafting atmospheric darkness from the shadows of obscurity since 2017.
Crushing Blackened Death Metal from Fort Worth.
Arizona raw black metal act Lucifixion have been operating in deliberate obscurity since 1996, devoted to primitive, unpolished black metal that refuses any concession to comfort.
New Jersey's Lucifugo have been casting cold, atmospheric black metal out of Ridgefield Park since 2006, with a sound that draws on European tradition while maintaining a distinctly American bleakness.
An Ohio atmospheric black metal project active since 2018, Luring builds suffocating walls of textured tremolo and cavernous ambience that feel less composed than conjured. The result is disorienting and immersive in equal measure.
Lexington's Lurking drag black metal into sludge and drone territory, piling glacial riffs on top of one another until the weight becomes its own kind of violence. Since 2016 they've made suffocation feel ceremonial.
Rising out of Missoula in 2023, Lust Hag deal in raw black metal that sounds like it was recorded inside a Montana winter — primitive, corrosive, and unfiltered. A solo project that refuses to polish away the ugliness.
Panama City's Lustravi have been honing a cold, uncompromising black metal sound since 2015, drawing more from European second-wave severity than any regional warmth. Harsh, deliberate, and uninterested in accessibility.
Illinois blackened death metal outfit Lycan Rex arrived in 2023 with a feral blend of blast-beat ferocity and riff-driven darkness, treating genre boundaries as obstacles rather than rules. Still early, but already predatory.
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