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Prior Convictions (2025)
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Blind (Expanded Edition) (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
07/15 @ Hawthorne Theatre, Portland
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Blood Dynasty (24-bit HD audio) (2024)
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Maryland's Elegy of Empire arrived in 2023 with atmospheric and depressive black metal steeped in grandiose desolation, their name perfectly telegraphing the genre's obsession with ruin and historical collapse.
A Tampa black metal act with roots going back to 2003, Element of Eclipse carries the legacy of Florida's extreme metal scene into the black metal underground, two decades deep and still active.
Named for the ancient Greek city of sacred mysteries, Reno's Eleusis have practiced their black metal rites since 2015 in the Nevada desert — a fitting landscape for music that evokes both desolation and dark reverence.
Named after the occultist Éliphas Lévi, this Hazleton, Pennsylvania act fuses melodic black metal sweep with death metal's heaviest low-end, wrapping cold atmospheric passages around aggressive tremolo-driven assault.
Named after the tragic figure who died at the Cecil Hotel, this Los Angeles black metal project channels dread and unease into its music — atmosphere soaked in paranoia and the feeling of being watched in a dark corridor.
Portland's Elitist refuse to stay in one lane — their sound drags sludge's suffocating weight through grindcore velocity and crust punk fury, occasionally dropping into straight death metal savagery without warning.
Worcester's Elizabory blend gothic metal's romantic melancholy with black metal's cold fury, a combination that arrived fully formed when the band started in 2023 and already feels like it has its own haunted aesthetic.
Cleveland's Elk Blood carry the Rust Belt's bleakness directly into their black metal, where the cold industrial sprawl of northern Ohio seeps into every tremolo run and blast beat.
Orlando thrash metal project from the Florida underground.
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