Occulted Death Stance
Occulted Death Stance is the central sonic-ritual vehicle of English outsider collective Anti-Social Kultur England (A.S.K.E.), fusing raw black metal with power-noise electronics, industrial abrasion, and oi-punk snarl across a steady stream of cassette and vinyl releases (Feathered Serpent, Crush Your Enemies, Wake & Hate). The music favors confrontational noise-collage and ritualistic atmosphere over conventional song structure. It reads less like death metal and more like black metal's junk-electronics/noise fringe.
SCORE PROFILE
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WHY THOSE SCORES
- Hardcore 5 — Described as combining 'black oi howls' (oi/punk vocal style) and tagged Hardcore Punk alongside Black Metal (Crypt of the Wizard product page; Discogs/Last.fm genre tags).
- Black 6 — Core genre tag is Black Metal across Metal Archives, Discogs, and Last.fm listings.
- Glitch 6 — Explicitly described as using 'power noise electronics' and harsh electronics per Crypt of the Wizard product description.
- Theatrical 3 — Described via 'ritualistic elements and deliberately confrontational aesthetics' (Crypt of the Wizard product page).
- Drone 2 — Genre fusion includes noise/power-electronics passages capable of sustained-tone drone, per general 'harsh electronics'/noise description; kept low given no direct track-level confirmation.
FURTHER LISTENING
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- UnaffiliatedEI 12BrobdingnagianGlitchBlackHardcore
Brobdingnagian is a long-running, identity-undisclosed US Midwest project splitting the difference between black metal and harsh noise, its bio-less Bandcamp catalogue running from 2008's 'TortureStainedDisaster' through 2023's 'unwell_tiresome.' Early releases lean on power-electronics and digital-hardcore/grindcore blasts; later work drifts toward collage-like industrial pounding. A scarce 2013 cassette paired the project with noise act Toil in a limited-edition split.
- UnaffiliatedEI 12KakofoniumBlackGlitchHardcore
Kakofonium is a Poznań, Poland black metal project wrapped in an elaborate original mythology about 'Cybertemplars' who chose black metal as their weapon in a cosmic 'Final Crusade.' Musically it fuses raw/experimental black metal with cybergrind, synth-punk and dungeon-synth textures, self-described as 'cyber-blackened-death-metal.' It's DIY tape/bandcamp culture at its most conceptually unhinged.
- UnaffiliatedEI 18Violent Magic OrchestraBlackGlitchTheatrical
Violent Magic Orchestra (VMO) is an Osaka-based art-music/extreme collective that fuses corpse-painted black metal with peak-time techno, gabber, industrial and noise. The ensemble pairs Japanese avant-metal band Vampillia with international collaborators — ex-Yellow Swans electronicist Pete Swanson and French producer Mondkopf (as Extreme Precautions) — plus visual artist Kezzardrix, staging blindingly strobe-lit performance-art shows. Their 2016 debut Catastrophic Anonymous (Virgin Babylon Records domestically, Throatruiner/Deathwish worldwide) was mastered by James Plotkin and featured guest vocals from Attila Csihar (Sunn O)))/Mayhem) and Chip King (The Body); the 2024 follow-up Death Rave (Never Sleep) again enlisted Csihar alongside Dylan Walker of Full of Hell.
- Dissonant tech-deathEI 20White MothGlitchBlackHardcore
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.
- UnaffiliatedEI 19XpelleirGlitchBlackHardcore
Xpelleir is a long-running, deliberately absurdist Birmingham (UK) cybergrind project fusing raw/industrial black metal with vaporwave and Y2K internet-culture aesthetics — programmed blasts, sampled telephone tones, and mock-corporate conceptual staging (its 2022 album Blackmetal.com imagines black metal fandom as a virtual marketplace). Active on and off since 2009 under mainstay Lazer Rot, with a rotating cast of guitarists and vocalists.
- UnaffiliatedEI 10SconsacrataBlackGlitchHardcore
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.
- UnaffiliatedEI 8SADWRISTGlitchBlack
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.
- UnaffiliatedEI 20GriiimGlitchBlack
Griiim is the solo project of Paris-based visual artist and musician Maxime 'MT' Taccardi (also the sole member of atlas act K.F.R.), fusing atmospheric black metal with trap, trip-hop, industrial noise, and power electronics. Angry Metal Guy describes 2019 debut Pope Art as 'an eerie concoction of trap, trip-hop, industrial, noise and black metal' where 'true-blue riffs surface only once' and guitars mostly function to 'simulate droning dives and oppressive noise' under 'phat beats.' RateYourMusic and Discogs tag the record Avant-Garde Metal / Atmospheric Black Metal, and it features guest vocalists Meyhna'ch (Mutiilation) and O (Obskuritatem), released via Purity Through Fire.
- UnaffiliatedEI 9ÄgakäkenBlackGlitch
Ägakäken is a one-person Estonian black metal/experimental project helmed by SÜBÜR (guitar, vocals, synths, percussion). Its 2022 EP "BlÄkk VVärkk" mixes black metal with harsh noise, noise rock, and post-rock textures across short, abrasive tracks, some under 30 seconds. Other 2021–2022 releases include "DEMO 2021," "AxLxBxUxM," and "Seksiori Indrek."
- UnaffiliatedEI 18Kwade DroesBlackGlitchHardcore
Kwade Droes is an anonymous Dutch black metal act from Gelderland, releasing through Ván Records since a 2017 debut EP. Reviewers describe the project as lo-fi Darkthrone-style black metal collided with a 'stoned free jazz ensemble,' built from tremolo riffs, sampled radio static, and demonic chorales. The band guards its members' identities closely.