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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Day Is Done" by Nick Drake (2021)
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Gothic black doom act from Turin, active since 2004. Circus of Damnation has spent over two decades crafting dark, theatrical metal that bridges gothic, black, and doom traditions.
Black metal band from the Limburg towns of Panningen and Helden, active since 1997. Cirith Gorgor — named after a Tolkien fortress — is one of the Netherlands' longest-running and most respected black metal acts.
Black metal band from Bad Oldesloe in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, formed in 2019. Named after a fortress in Tolkien's Mordor, they channel dark fantasy themes through raw black metal.
Stockholm melodic black/heavy metal act formed in 2020, blending the atmospheric intensity of black metal with heavy metal's melodic power. Their cross-genre approach creates a sound both dark and anthemic.
Raw black metal project from Carinthia, Austria, active since 2009. They strip black metal down to its most primal elements, delivering lo-fi ferocity in the tradition of the rawest underground.
Atmospheric black metal band from Devon, England, formed in 2021. They craft vast, nature-inspired black metal from the English West Country.
Black metal project from Warsaw, active since 2017. Cisza — Polish for 'silence' — channels paradoxically fierce black metal from the Polish capital.
German black-death metal act, one of the country's earliest extreme metal projects with roots dating to 1984. Their pioneering presence helped shape the German extreme metal landscape.
Black folk metal project from Barnaul in the Altai region, formed in 2021. Clactonian Haze blends pagan folk elements with black metal from the Siberian foothills.
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