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Featured Album
The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Gothic doom-black metal band from Tartu, Estonia, active since 2002. They weave gothic darkness and doom weight through a black metal framework from Estonia's university city.
Depressive black metal project from the UK, formed in 2024. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal.
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Finnish black metal project formed in 2022. They craft dark, cemetery-themed black metal steeped in death worship and Finnish darkness.
Black metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2017. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from the Loire-Atlantique capital.
Black-doom metal project from Frankfurt, Germany, emerging in 2025. They merge the bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom.
One-man atmospheric black metal project from Vienna, founded in 2024 by the artist known as Oblivion. Their debut EP 'Fall of Dying Lights' explores cosmic isolation and celestial themes, blending icy black metal with vast, space-inspired atmospheres.
Budapest-based black metal project formed in 2020. Cellar Dweller crafts subterranean, cavernous black metal steeped in darkness and isolation.
Celtic black metal and folk metal band from Dublin, active since 2010. Celtachor draws deeply on Irish mythology and the Gaelic tradition, weaving folk instrumentation into fierce black metal.
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