Gaerea

Gaerea is a Portuguese black metal band known for performing masked and giving almost nothing away about individual identities, letting the music and the ritualistic presentation carry the weight instead. Their sound leans atmospheric and punishing at once, built on the genre's usual tremolo picking and blast beats but shaped with a sharper sense of dynamics and dread.

They have built a substantial following, over 100,000 on Spotify alone, without compromising the bleakness at the core of their records. Colorado fans can catch them at Fillmore Auditorium Denver.