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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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All Within My Hands (Live) / Nothing Else Matters (Live) (2020)
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A New Hampshire atmospheric black metal project, Barbarous Winds pursues the genre's most immersive and expansive tendencies, crafting vast, windswept soundscapes from a remote corner of the American underground.
Named after the mystical object in Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, Baltimore's Barbelith has been exploring consciousness, astral travel, and introspection through post-black metal since 2011.
An American black metal and dark ambient project whose name invokes a figure from Gnostic theology, pairing esoteric imagery with the bleak atmospheric territory shared by both genres.
A raw black metal and dungeon synth project from Jonesboro, Georgia, Barksdale explores themes of nature, paganism, and anti-Christianity within the stripped-down aesthetic of the underground black metal tradition.
Eugene, Oregon's Barred Spiral is a young atmospheric black/death metal act that emerged in 2024, adding to the Pacific Northwest's strong tradition of blackened and atmospheric extreme metal.
Santa Rosa, California's Barren Altar combine black and doom metal with lyrical themes of anti-theological liturgy and apocalyptic death worship, operating since 2013 as a fixture of Northern California's underground extreme metal scene.
A black metal and punk hybrid active since 1999, this Barren Harvest — not to be confused with the dark folk project of the same name from Oregon — represents an early American fusion of raw black metal aesthetics with punk's stripped-down aggression.
Boston's Barren Oak pursue an experimental approach to black and death metal, operating since 2021 as part of the city's diverse underground scene with a sound that resists easy genre categorization.
Pittsburgh's Barren Plains are an instrumental post-metal project that emerged in 2025, joining a city with deep roots in heavy music by crafting atmospheric, wordless compositions in the post-metal tradition.
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