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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Black metal band originally from Slovakia, expanding across Czech Republic, Denmark, and Germany, active since 2019. Their multinational lineup channels black metal across Central and Northern European borders.
Rising from Kharkiv's metal underground, this Ukrainian act forges Black Metal built on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere. Frostbitten riffing and anti-cosmic lyrical themes define their output.
Kaunas, Lithuania — black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2013, they deal in frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Firmly rooted in black metal, this British actfrom London delivers venomous shrieks over walls of distortion without compromise. They've been at it since 2017, and the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
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Stubbornly devoted to the riff, this black metal act from Rome traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2013, they've built a catalog that reflects Italy's underrated but thriving metal community.
Black metal band from Mulhouse in Alsace, France active since 2010. They channel dark intensity from the Upper Rhine city.
When Exvoidxist emerged in 2018 out of United Kingdom, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Blackened speed metal project from Germany, formed in 2024, merging the atmospheric darkness of black metal with speed metal's breakneck velocity. Their executioner-themed name drives a sound built on old-school intensity and aggression.
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