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Yonkers black metal band from New York City's northern border, channeling the decay and transformation of the fall season into atmospheric extremity.
Minneapolis black metal project whose 2024 single The Streets Are Callin' Me brings an unusual urban directness to a genre typically associated with forests and mountains. Street-level black metal from the Twin Cities.
Connecticut gothic metal and melodic death metal project with two EPs from 2007-2008. Surrender the Fire and The Awakening of the Sleeping King blend dark romanticism with Scandinavian melodeath from the Constitution State.
Lexington, Kentucky black metal act drawing from the Bluegrass State's changing seasons, wrapping seasonal themes in atmospheric darkness with a distinctly Southern flavor.
Milwaukee black metal project adding to Wisconsin's growing extreme metal underground, channeling the city's industrial heritage into atmospheric darkness.
Portland black metal act whose Norwegian name means 'of sorrow,' channeling Scandinavian influence through the Pacific Northwest's fertile atmospheric black metal scene.
Gassaway, West Virginia black metal project emerging from deep Appalachia, channeling the Mountain State's isolation and rugged terrain into raw atmospheric extremity.
Bloomington, Indiana black metal act from the college town's underground, blending academic community with extreme metal's darkest impulses in the Hoosier State.
Cincinnati heavy metal project with five releases since 2014. Their catalog — spanning the French-titled Musiques immobiles and the blunt Indifferent — reveals a band comfortable with both Continental sophistication and American directness.
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