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Manual Manic Procedures (2024)
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Wake up Dead (feat. Dave Mustaine) (2022)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Green Bay/Milwaukee black metal project whose albums The Plutonian Shore and Echoes Over Oceans pair Edgar Allan Poe's cosmic imagery with atmospheric black metal since 2012. Wisconsin winter channeled through literary darkness.
Los Angeles black metal project that arrived in 2026 with two releases in quick succession. The End Will Write Itself and their extended play signal a band emerging fully formed from the city's vast underground.
Lexington black metal project from the Kentucky underground.
Madera/San Francisco black metal project whose 2018 releases Collection of Old Filth and In Defiance pair raw aggression with lo-fi aesthetics. Splitting operations between Central Valley isolation and Bay Area intensity.
Lester, Alabama black metal project drawing from fantasy RPG imagery since 2023. Their full-length Labyrinthia and associated singles build a dungeon-crawling mythology through atmospheric black metal from rural northern Alabama.
Knoxville, Tennessee black metal project whose 2021 EP The Elders Present to Me channels ancestral mysticism through frigid extremity. East Tennessee's Appalachian folklore providing rich source material for atmospheric black metal.
Omaha, Nebraska black metal and noise rock hybrid debuting in 2026 with Absolute Darkness. The genre-blending approach — pairing black metal's extremity with noise rock's textural aggression — suggests something genuinely experimental from the Great Plains.
Los Angeles black metal project with five releases since 2021, including a full-length and single both titled Archaic Black Metal. The self-referential naming convention signals a band committed to the genre's most primal traditions.
New Jersey black metal project conjuring frost-bitten tremolo storms from the Garden State, wrapping raw atmospheric passages in lo-fi fury.
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