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The solo, day-to-day-reality-grounded counterpart project of Dallas, TX multi-instrumentalist Garry Brents (also of Cara Neir and Gonemage), formed 2021. Tagged Avant-garde Black Metal / Grindcore on Metal Archives, Homeskin is built around rapid, often sub-24-hour recording sessions, intentional tape-wobbling production, and a hazy, melancholic take on black metal shot through with post-hardcore, screamo and noise-rock influences. Brents deliberately ended the project at its 17th release, 'End's Daze Without Organs,' after a self-imposed 15-month arc.

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Tokyo four-piece formed around 2017 by guitarist Adel and drummer Kazuma, later completed by vocalist Nana Yokota and bassist Junichi, fusing black metal blast beats and screamo intensity with a blurred, melodic shoegaze wall of sound (blackgaze). Debut album Doukei (2020) and follow-up Reikoku (2023) were both reissued for European/vinyl distribution via Gerpfast Record in 2025. Reviewers describe an intentionally raw, unpolished production framing gloomy, emotionally introspective post-metal songwriting.

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A UK bedroom-solo prog/avant-garde metal project by Leia Camilla that started as a full cover of Metallica's St. Anger before sprawling into mathcore, grindcore, metalcore, blackgaze, atmospheric metal, and ambient free improvisation. Related side-outlets DXO (ambient/noise/improv) and the short-lived black metal project Ljós extend the same restless, genre-hopping approach.

Aegult is a one-person atmospheric/avant-garde black metal project from Macclesfield, near Manchester, England, run since 2021 by an artist credited as Tomas (also behind Misertus and Ikiuni). Reviewers place 'The Pantheon of Insignificance' (2022) alongside Solefald, Thy Catafalque, and Sigh, praising its 'hyper-human' quirkiness: raw/hallucinatory black metal blindsided by unexpected jungle and synthwave breaks, then dissolving into dreamy, melancholic lo-fi shoegaze passages.

White Moth is a one-off 2010 studio collective assembled by Pyramids' R. Loren, splicing black-metal guitar churn, digital-hardcore breakbeats, no-wave saxophone, and musique-concrete textures into a single dense suite. The guest roster (Colin Marston, Sam Hillmer, Alec Empire, Lydia Lunch, Dälek, Christoph Heemann, Jacob Kirkegaard) reads like a cross-section of the American and European experimental underground rather than a touring band. It sits closer to a curated art-collaboration than a genre act, but its metal-guitar/electronics collision earns its avant-garde-metal chart placement.

Deafheaven is an American band formed in San Francisco in 2010 by vocalist George Clarke and guitarist Kerry McCoy, and the most prominent US exponent of blackgaze — a fusion of black metal's tremolo blizzards and shrieked vocals with the luminous washes of shoegaze and post-rock. Their second album, Sunbather (2013), released on Jacob Bannon of Converge's label Deathwish Inc. and produced by Jack Shirley, became one of the most critically acclaimed and divisive metal records of its decade, its pink cover art a byword for the genre's crossover appeal. Later albums swung between the harsher New Bermuda (2015) and the fully clean-sung Infinite Granite (2021) before returning to extremity on Lonely People with Power (2025).

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Cicada the Burrower is the solo project of Madison, Wisconsin songwriter Cameron Davis, active since 2011/2012 and self-released through her own Blue Bedroom Records. Davis fuses progressive/post-black metal with blackgaze, chiptune, trip-hop and ambient electronics, using albums like Corpseflower (2021) and Blight Witch Regalia (2023) to process her gender transition. Reviewers have likened its blurred, synth-laced blackgaze passages to Sadness while noting jazzy horns, trip-hop beats and lo-fi electronic production woven through the harsh vocals.

Solo industrial black/death metal project of Charlie Davis (also vocalist/bassist of sludge band Beggar and of the punk project Wasted Death), based in London, England. Debut album Paroxysms (2022) fuses grinding, blast-beat black metal with mechanized industrial-dub textures, deliberate 'inhuman' digital glitches, and ritualistic chant-like vocal passages, drawing conceptually on Philip K. Dick's VALIS and Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago.

SADWRIST is a French solo artist and self-described pioneer of the 'trashwave' aesthetic, fusing harsh noise, witch-house, djent, black metal, and trap into dense, glitch-riddled tracks. Song and album titles are rendered almost entirely in stylized Unicode symbols, extending the project's noisy, deliberately unstable identity into its visual presentation as much as its sound.

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Non Serviam is an anonymous experimental black metal collective from Paris, France, centered on songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Void alongside vocalist-harpsichordist Moon. Tagged 'Baroqueviolence,' their music folds industrial noise, baroque instrumentation (harpsichord, spinet, accordion), and grindcore/doom-sludge influences into a black metal core, citing Neurosis, Godflesh, Autechre and Joy Division among its touchstones. Their 2026 album La Lune Dont Mon Âme Est Pleine features a guest vocal turn from Mirai Kawashima of Sigh.