Crust / Punk / Hardcore with String Instruments: black metal

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Fictional Character - En Dedans [Song]

Labels: band:fictional character, black metal, post-rock, song, viola

Fictional Character is a post-black metal/blackgaze band from Singapore

Much more metal than punk, but still thought it might be worth posting. Music video for the song is here

Album Description

The track includes viola

Tracklist

En Dedans

Preview

<a href="https://fictionalcharacter.bandcamp.com/track/en-dedans">En Dedans by Fictional Character</a>

Links

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Grimoire - Ashes In The Sword (2025) [Song]

Labels: band:grimoire, black metal, blackened crust, crust, song, violin

Grimoire is a black metal/crust band from Bandung, Indonesia

Music video for the song can be found here

Album Description

The track includes violin

Tracklist

Ashes In The Sword

Preview

<a href="https://grimoiresorrow.bandcamp.com/track/ashes-in-the-sword">Ashes In The Sword by Grimoire</a>

Links

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Lástima - A Pain Bloomed From My Lungs (2025)

Labels: band:lástima, black metal, blackened screamo, screamo, violin

Lástima is a black metal/screamo band with violin from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

No clue why I haven't posted about this band before now. I recommend checking out all their previous releases, too (they all have violin as well).

Album Description

All tracks include violin

Tracklist

Redux
The Shallow Drowned Lose Less Than We
Al Cerro Ancón
Hazel Interlude
Lyla
Espantapájaros
Sin Sol
Gifts From Our Mother
Septiembre

Preview

<a href="https://lastimamusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-pain-bloomed-from-my-lungs">A Pain Bloomed From My Lungs by Lástima</a>

Links

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Laudare - Requiem (2024)

Labels: band:laudare, black metal, cello, female vocalist, post-hardcore, post-rock

Laudare is a post-hardcore/post-rock/black metal band with a female vocalist and cello from Leipzig, Germany

Been looking forward to this album for a long time. The cello is a new addition, as their two previous albums did not include it (but they are highly recommended as well).

Album Description

All tracks include cello

Tracklist

Introitus
Dies Irae
Quid Sum Miser
Rex Tremendae
Quaerens Me
Lacrimosa
Offertorium
Hostias
Sanctus
Agnus Dei

Preview

<a href="https://laudare.bandcamp.com/album/requiem">Requiem by Laudare</a>

Links

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Buy CD

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Anareta - Fear Not (2023)

Labels: band:anareta, black metal, blackended doom, cello, doom, female vocalist, viola, violin

Anareta is a blackended doom band with cello, viola, violin, and a female vocalist from New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

More on the metal side of things, but still fits this blog well I think

Similar to: Somnolence

Special thanks to Bee from Threskiornis for recommending this album

Album Description

All tracks include cello, viola, and violin

Tracklist

Frozen Wasteland
Omnicide
Unforgiving Sun
The Descent
Locality
Black Snake

Preview

<a href="https://anareta.bandcamp.com/album/fear-not">Fear Not by Anareta</a>

Links

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Selvmørd - After // Death (2020) [Song]

Labels: band:selvmørd, black metal, blackened crust, cello, crust, song

Selvmørd is a blackened crust band from Surabaya, Indonesia.

Unsure about the instrument used, I'm assuming it's cello. This song is also included as a part of this four-way split between Indonesian bands

Album Description

The track includes cello (or another string instrument)

Tracklist

After // Death

Preview

<a href="https://selvmorddarkbeat.bandcamp.com/track/after-death">AFTER // DEATH by selvmørd</a>

Astat - Embers (2020)

Labels: band:astat, black metal, blackened crust, crust, female vocalist, violin

Astat is a blackened crust band with violin from Hanover, Germany.

Similar to: Embers (funnily enough)

Album Description

All tracks include violin

Tracklist

Flood
Embers
Void
Blacklist

Preview

<a href="http://astatblackenedcrust.bandcamp.com/album/astat-embers-full-album-2020">Astat - Embers (Full Album 2020) by ASTAT</a>

Links

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Exulansis - Sequestered Sympathy (2019)

Labels: band:exulansis, black metal, blackened crust, doom, violin

Exulansis is a black metal/doom/blackened crust band with violin from Colestin, Oregon

The strings are a lot more prominent in this release compared to their previous one, but the punk influence is a bit less prominent.

Similar to: Embers, Dead to a Dying World

Album Description

All tracks include violin

Tracklist

Sequestered Sympathy
Barren
Despondent
John Bradley
Dead Can't Die
A Helpless Witness, To Such Pain

Preview

<a href="http://exulansisoregon.bandcamp.com/album/sequestered-sympathy">Sequestered Sympathy by Exulansis</a>

Links

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Ives - Abandon (2010) [Song]

Labels: band:ives, black metal, blackened punk, song, violin

Ives was a blackened punk band from Florida, USA

Album Description

Only the track "Abandon" includes violin

Tracklist

The Taste Of Severity
Burning The Incense, Amanita Virosa
Lost In The Pleasures Of Moonlight
Abandon

Preview

Show videos

Links

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Source: RABM | Quality: MP3 128

Exulansis - Cyclical Sentient Struggle (2017)

Labels: band:exulansis, black metal, blackened crust, cello, female vocalist

Exulansis is a blackened crust band from Talent, Oregon

Unfortunately, the cello is pretty low in the mix on this, so it's pretty hard to hear, but this is some good stuff.

Similar to: Embers, Dead to a Dying World

Album Description

All tracks include cello

Tracklist

Cyclical
Sentience
Struggle

Preview

<a href="http://exulansisoregon.bandcamp.com/album/cyclical-sentient-struggle">Cyclical Sentient Struggle by Exulansis</a>

Links

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Dawn Ray'd - A Thorn, A Blight (2015)

Labels: band:dawn ray'd, black metal, violin

Dawn Ray'd is an anarchist black metal band with violin from the UK

Like Next Victim, this is more punk-adjacent than actual punk, as Dawn Ray'd was formed by members of the blackened screamo band We Came Out Like Tigers that has been posted on this blog before.

Album Description

All tracks include violin

Tracklist

Black Cloth
Cauldron Of Rebirth
Strident Voices
At The Still Point
A Colony Of Fevers
Darken the Door

Seeds In Barren Fields is a blackened crust band from Sweden

Only a little bit of strings on this one

Album Description

Only the tracks "Home (اني اخترتك ياوطني)" and " The Epitaph of the Vain and the Forgotten" include viola

Tracklist

A Gospel of the Flesh
Home (اني اخترتك ياوطني)
Internalize Deir Yassin
Communion
Echoes of a Forgotten Rhythm
The Epitaph of the Vain and the Forgotten
Days of Heaven
Let the Earth be Silent After Ye
Entropy

Preview

<a href="http://seedsinbarrenfields.bandcamp.com/album/let-the-earth-be-silent-after-ye">Let the Earth be Silent After Ye by SEEDS IN BARREN FIELDS</a>

Links

Buy CD/Vinyl from Bandcamp

Download from Bandcamp

Ü - // (2015)

Labels: band:ü, black metal, blackened crust, crust, neocrust, screamo, viola

Ü is an anarchist black metal/crust punk/screamo band from Italy.

Ü is a band as difficult to classify as they are to search for on Google. Really interesting stuff. They incorporate viola and accordion into a few songs on this album.

Album Description

Only the tracks "Ofelie" and "Melma" include viola

Tracklist

Aperture
Ofelie
Crisi - Collasso Etereo
Baratro
Melma
Eco
Albe
Chiusure

Preview

Listen on Bandcamp

Links

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Source: Bandcamp | Quality: MP3 V0

Ancient Oak - Den Siste Bastion (2013)

Labels: band:ancient oak, black metal, blackened crust, violin

Ancient Oak is an atmospheric black metal/blackened crust one-man-band from Russia

Only a slight crust influence. Also, I'm not totally sure that the string instrument on this is a violin

Album Description

Only the tracks "Кровь отцов" and "Чистое сердце" include violin. This is the first release of Ancient Oak with vocals; before this album, it was strictly an instrumental band