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Featured Album
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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Black metal project from Tilburg, formed in 2022. Colossus Blade conjures epic black metal from a city renowned as a hub of Dutch extreme metal.
Atmospheric black metal project from the UK, active since 2012. They craft vast, immersive atmospheres within a black metal framework.
Atmospheric black metal project from Rivne in northwestern Ukraine, active since 2015. Colotyphus delivers expansive, atmospheric black metal from the Volyn region.
Black metal band from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, formed in 2014. They craft atmospheric black metal from the gateway to the Black Forest.
Black-death-sludge metal band from Vichy, France, formed in 2021. They blend extreme metal darkness with sludge weight from the Auvergne spa town.
Black metal band from Berlin, Germany, active since 2009. They channel dark intensity through atmospheric black metal from the German capital.
Black-death-doom metal band from Kassel, Germany, formed in 2015. They blend the darkness of black metal with the brutality of death metal and the crushing weight of doom.
Black metal project from Lisbon, formed in 2018. Como o Breu — Portuguese for 'like pitch' — crafts darkness-themed black metal from the Portuguese capital.
Gothenburg black metal project formed in 2017, adding atmospheric darkness to a city better known for melodic death metal. Their sound channels the intensity of black metal from an unexpected Swedish stronghold.
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