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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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The Blue Nowhere (24-bit HD audio) (2025)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Seattle's Ebony Pendant emerged in 2019 with a black metal sound that draws from the Pacific Northwest's deep well of gloom — raw-edged and ceremonial, belonging to a city with no shortage of darkness to mine.
Fort Wayne, Indiana's Ecferus has been one of the Midwest's more prolific black metal solo acts since 2015, churning out a torrent of raw, philosophically dense material that rewards patience from listeners willing to go deep.
Denver's Echo has been doing black metal at altitude since 2010, a long-running Colorado act whose sound carries the cold of mountain winters and the vastness of high-desert night.
A Utah depressive black metal project formed in 2012, Echo of Life leans hard into the genre's most inward-facing qualities — slow, anguished, and constructed for solitary listening.
Chicago's Echo Primordium emerged in 2022 at the intersection of black and death metal, channeling the city's extreme underground lineage into something that feels both ancient and immediately punishing.
A very young Portland band that launched in 2023 armed with a black/death/thrash collision — Echoes of Hell leans into the uglier, more chaotic edges of all three traditions.
Los Angeles-based since 2006, Echoes of Silence drape symphonic grandeur over the icy framework of black metal, building an atmospheric sound that leans cinematic without losing its teeth.
South Bend, Indiana may feel far from the atmospheric black metal epicenters, but Echoes of the Moon have been building a post-black sound there since 2014 — expansive, spacious, and genuinely felt.
One of the more singular voices in American underground metal, Olympia's Echtra has spent over two decades weaving atmospheric black metal, drone, and folk into meditative, earth-bound compositions that defy easy categorization.
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