Sacramentum

Specializing in icy and melodic blackened death metal, Sweden's Sacramentum is known for pairing baleful atmospherics with brutal intensity, as heard on their acclaimed 1996 debut album Far Away from the Sun. The band issued two more influential albums, The Coming of Chaos (1997) and Thy Black Destiny (1999), before ceasing operations in 2001. Sacramentum re-formed in 2022 for a series of live performances and eventually returned to the studio, emerging in 2025 with Shadow of Oblivion.