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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
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The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/13 @ Fox Theatre Detroit, Detroit
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Black metal project from the Czech Republic whose German name, meaning "finality" or "finiteness," reflects a philosophical engagement with mortality and impermanence since 2013. Their atmospheric approach channels existential themes through the lens of raw black metal.
Atmospheric black metal project from Aachen, Germany, formed in 2025, whose name means "endless emptiness" in German. Their evocative moniker captures the vast, desolate soundscapes at the heart of their atmospheric black metal vision.
Stubbornly devoted to the riff, this black metal act from London traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2024, they've built a catalog that reflects the UK's ever-evolving heavy music tradition.
Firmly rooted in black metal, this Swedish actfrom Västra Götaland delivers dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice without compromise. They've been at it since 2025, and atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
Depressive black metal project from Minsk, Belarus, channeling bleakness, despair, and emotional extremity since 2021. Their sound embraces the genre's most introspective and tormented tendencies through raw, atmospheric compositions.
Black metal and folk metal project from Martorell, Spain, active since 2021. They fuse the raw intensity of black metal with folk elements drawn from their Catalan surroundings.
Black metal act from Goppingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, channeling terminal darkness since 2016. Their name, German for "terminal stage," captures the finality and desperation that permeates their black metal compositions.
Black metal act from Kiel in northern Germany, delivering raw, uncompromising extremity since 2023. Their name, German for "end silence," suggests a shattering of quiet through blast-beat fury and tremolo-picked aggression.
Trysil's metal underground has produced no shortage of heavy acts, and this black metal unit is among them — wielding dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
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