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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 band from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, emerging in 2025. They channel lupine ferocity through raw black metal from the Rhine-Main metropolis.
Black-death-doom metal band from Scotland, emerging in 2026. They blend three extreme metal genres into a dark, wounding assault.
Gothic industrial black metal act from Katowice, active since 2014. Cult ov Mora blends dark electronic textures with black metal and gothic atmospherics from the Silesian capital.
Black metal project from Östergötland, formed in 2022. Cultellus — Latin for 'small knife' — channels raw black metal from central Sweden.
Black metal band from Kielce in central Poland, active since 2011. Cultes des Ghoules has earned international acclaim for their ritualistic, occult-driven black metal steeped in ceremonial darkness.
Industrial black metal band from Langerringen near Augsburg, Germany, active since 2008. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with industrial metal's mechanized aggression.
Black-thrash metal band from Farnborough, England, active since 2011. They deliver ferocious, riff-driven black-thrash from Hampshire.
Folk-infused black metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2007. They blend folk elements with occult black metal from Greece's second-largest city.
Black metal project from Belgium, formed in 2017. Devoted to the worship of the night, they create dark and ritualistic black metal steeped in nocturnal atmosphere and occult tradition.
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