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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Black metal project from Treviso, Italy, formed in 2023. Candleshadow conjures atmospheric darkness from the Veneto region.
Avant-garde black metal band from Tampere, Finland, formed in 2017. They push black metal into unconventional territory through experimental and avant-garde approaches.
Doom and black metal band from Geel, Belgium, formed in 2014. They merge the crushing weight and glacial pace of doom metal with the cold ferocity of black metal into a bleak, oppressive sound.
Black metal project from Salgareda in the Treviso province, formed in 2019. Canticum Diaboli — Latin for 'Song of the Devil' — deals in diabolical black metal from the Veneto flatlands.
Black metal and grindcore act from the Alpine town of Belluno, Italy, active since 2007. Caostruppen channels chaotic extremity from the Dolomite foothills.
Symphonic black metal project from Lviv in western Ukraine, formed in 2024. Capitollium merges orchestral grandeur with black metal from the cultural capital of western Ukraine.
Black metal project from Duisburg, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver dark, atmospheric black metal steeped in occult themes from the industrial Ruhr Valley.
Black metal project from Wrocław, formed in 2025. Capricornus channels raw black metal from the capital of Lower Silesia.
Experimental black metal project from Smallingerland in Friesland, formed in 2022. Caput Mortuum — an alchemical term for 'dead head' — pushes black metal into avant-garde territory.
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