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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 Lisbon, formed in 2022. Chavasckall delivers raw black metal from the Portuguese capital.
Genre-crossing extreme metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2016. Chaver blend black metal, crust punk, death metal, and groove metal into a fierce and unpredictable assault.
Black metal band from Durcal in Granada province, Spain, formed in 2017. Named after the holy creatures of the Hebrew Merkabah, they channel spiritual darkness through black metal from the Andalusian Sierra Nevada.
Black metal band from Mons, Belgium, active since 2013. They forge cold, atmospheric black metal from the Walloon industrial heartland, drawing on the genre's European traditions.
Black-death metal band from Badalona near Barcelona, Spain, active since 2011. They merge voodoo-tinged darkness with blackened death metal from the Catalan coast.
Depressive black metal project from Vilnius, Lithuania, active since 2010. Cheerful Depression — an oxymoronic name befitting the genre — channels deep melancholy through atmospheric black metal.
Black metal act from Feltre in the Belluno Dolomites, formed in 2018. Chelmno — named after the notorious extermination camp — traffics in dark historical themes through raw black metal.
Melodic black metal act from the small town of Radoszyce in central Poland, active since 2006. Cherem has spent two decades crafting melody-driven black metal from the Świętokrzyskie region.
Black metal project from Barnaul in the Altai region of Siberia, active since 2015. Cherno — Russian for 'black' — crafts dark black metal from the foothills of the Altai mountains.
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