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Featured Album
Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Versus the World (2015)
05/12 @ 1st SUMMIT ARENA at Cambria County War Memorial, Johnstown
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
05/12 @ The Rave - Eagles Club, Milwaukee
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German black metal band from Erfurt named after Tolkien's dark fortress, formed in 2010. They channel fantasy-inspired black metal with an atmospheric Thuringian edge.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Sweden, active since 2023. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Black metal project from Italy, emerging in 2020. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Italian origins.
German black metal band from Thuringia, formed in 2016. They contribute to the Thuringian black metal underground with raw, uncompromising compositions.
Finnish black/doom metal band from Kuopio, formed in 2016. They merge black metal darkness with doom metal's oppressive weight from the eastern Finnish lake country.
Finnish black metal band from Etelä-Pohjanmaa (South Ostrobothnia), formed in 2013. They deliver pharmaceutical-named black metal from the Finnish flatlands.
Forged in 2023 from Overijssel, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Drawing from the contemplative side of black metal, this Slovak project channels Bratislava's spirit into sweeping, atmosphere-laden compositions. Since 2014, their recordings balance raw aggression with passages of fragile, melancholic beauty.
Spanish black/death metal band from Lugo in Galicia, formed in 2012. They forge prophetic black/death metal from the ancient Roman-walled city of northwestern Spain.
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