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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
De Doorn (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
05/13 @ The Rust Belt, East Moline
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In existence since 2025, this Kazan Black Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Reykjavík, Iceland — black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2014, they deal in raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
A product of Russia's vast and intense metal underground, this Moscow-based black metal and raw black metal act channels raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Active since 2022, lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Psychedelic post-black/doom metal and ambient project from Dresden, Germany, traversing vast sonic landscapes since 2020. Their provocatively named approach fuses psychedelia with extreme metal's heaviest tendencies in an expansive, genre-defying vision.
Swedish black metal and depressive black metal act, active since 2007 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in Sweden's legendary metal infrastructure, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
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Black metal project from Bavaria, Germany, whose name means "miserable" or "wretched" in German, active since 2014. Their desolate moniker captures the bleak, sorrowful atmosphere of their Bavarian black metal.
Part of Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape, this act channels black metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 1999, based in Saint Petersburg, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from Athens, Greece formed in 2022. They unleash a triple-headed extreme metal assault from the Greek capital.
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