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Featured Album
The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Atmospheric black metal project from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2019. Their ethereal sound layers rich atmospheric textures over black metal foundations from the financial capital of Europe.
Hasaleth is a melodic black metal band from Poland, formed in 2025. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Grindcore and sludge metal act from the Helsinki-Espoo metropolitan area, active since 2016. Their Finnish-language name adds local flavor to a sound that grinds between extreme tempos and crushing weight.
Depressive black metal project from the Ruhr region of Germany, active since 2020. Their sorrowful, emotionally devastating sound channels deep despair into raw, harrowing black metal compositions.
Black metal project from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, active since 2012. Their fierce, unrelenting approach delivers raw black metal intensity from the industrial heartland of western Germany.
Black metal project from Estonia, formed in 2021. Their atmospheric sound channels the dark, forested landscapes of the Baltic region through raw black metal.
Hast is a black metal project from Lille, France, active since 2020 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Emerging from Genoa's underground, this black metal act has been forging menacing sonic fury since 2013. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Heavy metal act from the English Midlands, active since 2013. Over a decade of riff-driven compositions from the heartland of British metal have built a solid catalog of traditional heaviness.
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