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Necromanteum (2023)
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Vertigo (Sunbather: 10th Anniversary Remix / Remaster) (2023)
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Featured Power Metal Album
We Three Kings (Metal Holiday) (2015)
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Menifee, California's Tomb Rot have been crafting blackened death metal since 2017, fusing the raw grime of old-school death metal with black metal's corrosive atmosphere in a style that recalls the genre's most primitive and ferocious periods.
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Concord, California's Torture Chamber has been active since 1998, making them one of the longer-running black metal acts from the Bay Area's underground — a testament to persistence in an unforgiving scene.
Ceres, California's Trayjen have been active in the black metal underground since 2007, a long-running project from the Central Valley that operates well outside the state's more prominent coastal metal scenes.
Trollfat is a California-based blackened heavy metal act formed in 2024, fusing the raw aggression of black metal with the driving, riff-forward energy of traditional heavy metal.
California atmospheric and depressive black metal project active since 2013, fusing the bleak introspection of DSBM with progressive rock structures to create expansive, emotionally consuming soundscapes.
California atmospheric black metal project formed in 2025, building vast, expansive soundscapes from cold tremolo-picked guitar and sweeping ambience in the genre's most meditative tradition.
Tyranid is a California black/death metal band formed in 2025, channeling the convergence of blackened extremity and death metal brutality in the tradition of the American underground.
Tyrite Sanctum is a black metal band from San Francisco, California, formed in 2023, one of the newer entries in the Bay Area's longstanding and diverse extreme metal underground.
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