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The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Blackened death metal project from Stockholm, formed in 2024. Crown of Decay channels dark extremity from the Swedish capital.
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Atmospheric black metal project from Pomerania, northern Poland, active since 2013. Crown of Twilight channels expansive, melancholic black metal from the Baltic coast region.
Black-doom act from Norrköping, formed in 2018. Crows over Brávellir — referencing the legendary Viking battle of Brávellir — channels Norse themes through atmospheric extreme metal.
Black-death metal band from Bradford, England, formed in 2024. They fuse extreme metal darkness from West Yorkshire.
Black metal band from Neuss, Germany, formed in 2014. They channel dark intensity through atmospheric black metal from the Lower Rhine.
Black metal project from Zaporizhia, formed in 2021. Crucifix Default delivers raw black metal from the Dnieper River city in southeastern Ukraine.
Black metal band from the Ile-de-France region, formed in 2022. They channel crucifixion-themed darkness through raw black metal.
Gothic black metal project from Chita in the Transbaikal region of eastern Siberia, formed in 2022. Crucifixus crafts dark, atmospheric metal from one of Russia's most remote cities.
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