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Featured Album
The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
We Rule the Waves (2025)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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German black/thrash metal band from Zerbst in Saxony-Anhalt, active since 2009. They forge a violent blend of black and thrash metal from the eastern German flatlands.
French black metal band from Martigues near Marseille, formed in 2018. They deliver cascading black metal from the Provençal coast.
German blackened thrash metal and punk band from Berlin, formed in 2024. They fuse blackened thrash with punk's raw, confrontational spirit.
Death/black metal band from Deutschlandsberg, Austria, active since 2010. Their demo material features atmospheric extreme metal with dark, apocalyptic themes and artwork by Dr. Winter.
German black metal project formed in 2025. They deliver visceral black metal with an uncompromising approach.
German black metal band from Hanau, formed in 2012. They channel dark, lordly black metal from the Main-Kinzig region of Hesse.
French black/death metal band from Alençon in Normandy, formed in 2019. They deliver lordly black/death metal from the Norman countryside.
German black metal band from Ludwigshafen, formed in 2012. They craft atmospheric black metal under the shadow of the moon from the Rhine-Neckar industrial region.
Finnish black metal band from Helsinki, formed in 2013. They deliver maternal, blood-drenched black metal from the Finnish capital.
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