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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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Black metal project from Serres in northern Greece, active since 2011. Their Swedish name meaning 'Eternal Sorrow' reflects their bleak black metal vision from the Macedonian hinterland.
The Italian city of Vicenza serves as headquarters for this black metal operation, whose arsenal includes second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
The Norwegian city of Oslo serves as headquarters for this black metal operation, whose arsenal includes corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere. Frostbitten riffing and anti-cosmic lyrical themes define their output.
Black/thrash metal band from Lahti, Finland formed in 2019. They fuse black metal darkness with thrash metal speed from southern Finland.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from Reading, England active since 2014. They unleash a triple-headed extreme metal assault from Berkshire.
Practitioners of black metal, death metal, and doom metal, this Hungarian outfit from Nagyatád has been refining their craft since 2014. Their sound hinges on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities, delivered with dogged persistence.
Bratislava-based black metal act, active since 2020 delivering venomous shrieks over walls of distortion. Rooted in a scene with deep roots in the former Czechoslovak underground, the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom — black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2026, they deal in frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Black metal project from Lyon, France active since 2014. They channel volcanic black metal fury from central-eastern France.
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