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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Crusher (Bonus Edition) (2015)
05/12 @ 1st SUMMIT ARENA at Cambria County War Memorial, Johnstown
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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German black metal band from Würzburg, formed in 2016. They deliver raw, bloodthirsty black metal from the Franconian wine country.
German black metal band originally from Riesa, later relocated to Dresden, formed in 2019. They channel stormy black metal fury from the Saxon plains.
German black/death/thrash metal band from Rostock and Kröpelin, formed in 2019. They draw from three extreme metal pillars for a devastating, multi-pronged attack from the Baltic coast.
Godalming-based black metal act active since 2007, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a British lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
French raw black metal band from Clichy near Paris, formed in 2018. They deliver raw, sabbath-inspired black metal from the Parisian inner suburbs.
German black metal band from Coesfeld in Westphalia, formed in 2017. They deliver cold, obscure black metal from the Münsterland plains.
Finnish black metal and industrial project formed in 2020. They merge black metal's rawness with industrial's mechanical pulse.
Death metal outfit from Szczecin, formed in 2017. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
German blackened sludge and post-metal band from Mainz, formed in 2015. They merge blackened sludge metal's toxic heaviness with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
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