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Eschatology of War (2021)
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Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
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Black-death metal band from Aberdeen, Scotland, formed in 2020. They fuse extreme metal darkness from the Granite City.
Black metal project from Galway, Ireland, formed in 2017. Cyheuraeth — named after a Welsh spectral figure — conjures atmospheric black metal from Ireland's Atlantic coast.
Pagan black metal band from Torrelodones near Madrid, Spain, active since 2013. Named after a Welsh wailing spirit, they channel pagan and Celtic themes through black metal.
Black metal project from Kharkiv, formed in 2020. Cyllell — Welsh for 'knife' — channels sharp, cutting black metal from eastern Ukraine.
Black metal project from Kamienna Góra in the Sudeten mountains, formed in 2020. Cymeris channels atmospheric black metal from the mountainous border region of Lower Silesia.
Raw black metal band from Northumberland, England, formed in 2024. Named after the Anglo-Saxon poet, Cynewulf channel ancient English themes through primitive black metal.
Blackened death-doom act from Działdowo in northern Masuria, formed in 2021. Cyrograf — Polish for 'pact with the devil' — merges dark subgenres from the rural north.
Black metal project from the Wieliczka and Dobczyce area near Kraków, active since 2013. Cyrograph crafts atmospheric black metal from the Lesser Poland salt mine region.
Black metal band from England, formed in 2024. Their Welsh name meaning shadow, Cysgod craft dark black metal.
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