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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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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 Brest in Brittany, France, formed in 2015. They craft atmospheric black metal from the westernmost tip of mainland France.
Symphonic black metal band from Landgraaf in Limburg, with Bandcamp presence since 2012. Carach Angren has become one of the Netherlands' most internationally recognized black metal acts, known for cinematic horror narratives and orchestral grandeur.
Blackened death metal act from Fossano in Cuneo province, Piedmont, formed in 2019. Caradhras — named after the Tolkien mountain — conjures dark, epic extreme metal.
Black metal band from the Essen/Arnsberg area of Germany, formed in 2015. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from the forested hills of the Sauerland and Ruhr regions.
Black-thrash metal band from Bremen, Germany, formed in 2020. They fuse the icy intensity of black metal with the riff-driven aggression of thrash.
Black-doom metal project from Helsinki, Finland. They merge the bleakness of black metal with the crushing weight of doom.
Black-death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2016. They merge the atmospheric darkness of black metal with the crushing brutality of death metal.
Funeral doom and black metal project from Portugal, active since 2015. Carma crafts glacially slow, oppressive doom with black metal atmospherics.
German black metal project from the Saarland/Baden-Wurttemberg region, active since 2014. Named after a fortress in Tolkien's Angmar, Carn Dum craft dark, atmospheric black metal rooted in fantasy and nature themes.
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