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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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Black metal project from Temerin in Vojvodina, active since 2016. Chaoist crafts atmospheric black metal from the flatlands of northern Serbia.
Black metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2014. They deliver dark, ritualistic black metal from the French capital.
Genre-defying German extreme metal act, active since 2015. Chaos Cascade blend raw black metal, grindcore, and power metal into an unconventional and unpredictable sonic assault.
Black metal band from Rouen, France, active since 2012. They craft atmospheric black metal from the Norman capital.
Black metal band from Patras, Greece, active since 2012. They deliver chaotic, intense black metal from the Peloponnese port city.
Black/death metal project from Brasov launched in 2025, representing the newest wave of Transylvanian extreme metal. Their fusion of black and death metal traditions channels darkness from one of Romania's most atmospheric cities.
Black metal band from Nisterau, Germany, active since 2013. They craft ritualistic, atmospheric black metal from the rural Westerwald region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Black metal project from Venice, formed in 2021. Chaos Luciferi channels satanic black metal from the unlikely setting of the lagoon city.
Black-death metal band from London, formed in 2020. They fuse black metal darkness with death metal aggression from the English capital.
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