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Biesy is a Kraków trio formed in 2014 around guitarist/bassist PR, joined by vocalist Stawrogin (also of Odraza, Totenmesse) and drummer MP (also of Outre), taking their concept from Dostoevsky's Demons and the alienation of urban life. Their 2017 debut Noc Lekkich Obyczajów (Third Eye Temple) delivers dissonant, disjointed black/death riffing compared to Ulcerate, Deathspell Omega, Immolation and Gorguts. The 2020 follow-up Transsatanizm (Godz ov War Productions) pushed further into avant-garde territory, layering industrial synths and looping electro beats over blackened riffs, described by reviewers as 'avangardish, industrial-infused post-rock/post-black.'

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Saprovore is the solo industrial black/death metal project of an Italian musician also known for the band Strigiform, released through I, Voidhanger Records. His album 'Numinous Abditory Deflagration' (2026) is described by the artist as exploring 'cosmic emptiness' with a more refined, symphonic-leaning songwriting approach than his debut 'Unuttered Aporetic Omen.' Cited influences include Gnaw Their Tongues, Jute Gyte, Blut Aus Nord, and Thantifaxath (stated influences, not collaborations).

The solo vehicle of British multi-instrumentalist A. White, Vessel of Iniquity builds an oppressive catalogue of black/death metal fused with industrial noise, drum machines, and power-electronics-style sound design, citing Coil and Godflesh alongside Mayhem and Napalm Death as touchstones. Signed to Sentient Ruin Laboratories (with European releases via Xenoglossy Productions), the project favors a druggy, atmosphere-first sound closer to Gnaw Their Tongues than to melodic black metal. 2022's The Path Unseen introduced eight-string guitars, pushing the sound lower and more oppressive still.

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This Trifixion (Piacenza/Brembio, Italy, 1988-1995) began as straightforward death metal on its 1991 demo before lurching into genuinely deranged avant-garde territory by 1993's Sindrome of a New Flesh and the posthumously-released Abschurfungepoch (1995, Ematofagia) - goth-industrial death metal punctuated by mandolin, atmospheric keyboard interludes, psych-rock jams, and an electronic-dance-music left turn on one closing track. It is one of the earliest and strangest entries in the avant-garde death metal lineage, its ambition outrunning its cohesion by most reviewers' accounts.

Hex Arcana is an international avant-garde/black metal project based in Tampere, Finland, led by American multi-instrumentalist Matron Thorn (also of Ævangelist and Præternatura) with vocalist Frater A.A. and Erethe Arashiel on vocals/artwork. The project operated 2018-2020 as Devil Worshipper before adopting the Hex Arcana name, fusing dissonant black metal with industrial textures, doom, and occult theatrics for I, Voidhanger Records. The 2022 album 'Eternally Yours' was mixed and mastered by Jeremie Bezier of Emptiness.

Ævangelist is a US-based avant-garde black/death metal duo formed in 2010 by Matron Thorn and Ascaris, known for folding saxophone and cello into a nightmarish, dissonant sound. In 2016 the pair released the split EP Codex Obscura Nomina with Blut Aus Nord on Debemur Morti Productions.

Gardenjia is a Brindisi, Italy act formed in 2010 that started in djent/experimental territory before drifting into cinematic, atonal experimental black metal steeped in film and anime scores; 2018's Machina Dei explicitly quotes Ghost in the Shell and reworks Franz Liszt. Built around Raffaele Galasso with Giuseppe Miglietta and Antonio Martire, the trio remains unsigned and self-releases via Bandcamp.

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Vampillia is a Japanese 'brutal orchestra' from Osaka, a roughly ten-piece ensemble of twin guitars, violin, piano, dual drummers and a DJ built around vocalist Possession Mongoloid, fusing black metal, noise, classical and ambient into narrative-structured albums. The band's collaborator list runs unusually deep for an underground act: they released the full-length 'xoroAHbin' with The Body in 2017, recruited Mayhem/Sunn O))) vocalist Attila Csihar for their 2013 single 'Circle', and are one of the core constituent acts of the black-metal/techno project Violent Magic Orchestra.

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Kollektiv Raumordnung is a German multimedia art collective led by Moritz Fabian, involving 20+ collaborators across music, writing, photography, and visual art. Their debut album 'Stewards of Eon' (Dec. 2025, Fucking Kill Records/Cultkill Music) merges war metal, dark ambient, opera, power electronics, and psytrance into a single sci-fi concept release accompanied by a graphic novel, positioned as a 'twin-entity' sharing a fictional universe with the German doom act Eremit.

Void is a UK avant-garde/fringe metal project active since 1999, built around founding member and guitarist/vocalist Matt Jarman. Press consistently bills the band as 'avant-garde metal pioneers,' fusing black, death and industrial metal with noise, electronica and post-metal songwriting, citing touchstones from Dødheimsgard and Emperor to Aphex Twin and Venetian Snares. The current lineup grew directly out of Dødheimsgard's 2019 'Void Dancers' tour, and features musicians who also play in Dødheimsgard and Doedsmaghird. Their fourth album, Jadjow (2023, Brucia Records), was co-written by that touring lineup.