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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/13 @ Fox Theatre Detroit, Detroit
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Thrash, black, and death metal band from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2021. They channel the darkness of the Balkans through a volatile fusion of three extreme metal subgenres.
Moscow-based black metal act active since 2019, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Russian lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
Filth-encrusted raw black metal from Moscow, forged in 2018. Intentionally abrasive production values serve as a weapon, wrapping venomous riffs and shrieked vocals in a blanket of corrosive static.
Black metal project from Ełk, emerging in 2022. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Polish origins.
Finnish melodic black metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2025. They bring melodic black metal to the Finnish capital's underground.
German experimental black/doom metal band from Grevenbroich, active since 2000. They are known for their boundary-pushing fusion of black metal, doom metal, and experimental rock that defies easy categorization, occupying a unique space in German extreme music.
Black metal project from Athens, emerging in 2006. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Greek origins.
Finnish melodic black metal band from Oulu, formed in 2024. They craft melodic black metal from the cold reaches of northern Finland.
Black metal project from Vukovar, emerging in 1995. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Croatian origins.
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