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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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Kyiv-based melodic death metal act active since 2023, threading harmonized guitar leads and memorable hooks through aggressive, double-bass-driven arrangements. Their approach balances accessibility with genuine heaviness, drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.
Occupying the shadowed intersection of black metal and doom from Haarlem, active since 2025 crafts compositions that alternate between frozen blast sections and monolithic, slow-motion heaviness.
Spanish black metal band from Navarre, formed in 2020. Named after a Tolkien mountain fortress, they deliver fantasy-inspired black metal from the Pyrenean foothills.
Sicilian blackened thrash unit from Messina, active since 2009, delivering filthy speed-fueled aggression that channels the spirit of 1980s evil metal. Their raw, first-wave-influenced sound sits at the nasty intersection of Venom, Bathory, and early Sodom.
German black metal band from Kulmbach in Upper Franconia, formed in 2022. They channel fortress-themed black metal from the beer country of northern Bavaria.
Spanish raw black metal band from Rubí near Barcelona, formed in 2019. They channel raw, unfiltered black metal from the Catalan suburbs.
German atmospheric black metal project formed in 2025. They create immersive, atmospheric black metal soundscapes.
Finnish black metal project formed in 2023. They deliver helmet-clad black metal from the Finnish underground.
Solitary depressive black metal emanating from Moscow, formed in 2024. Their recordings strip black metal to its most emotionally exposed core, favoring repetitive, trance-like structures and vocals wracked with despair.
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