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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Tribute to Erik Lindmark (Deeds of Flesh) (2020)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Power Metal Album
Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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A menacing black metal entity from Budapest, contributing to the hungarian underground since 2005. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Black metal project from Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2019. Their name translating to 'Heroism,' they channel martial black metal themes through the raw fury of the genre.
Thrash metal act from Le Mans in western France, active since 2009. Their ripper-themed name suits frenzied thrash compositions forged in the Sarthe department, far from France's metal capitals.
Drawing from Chelyabinsk's metal heritage, this atmospheric/folk black metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2005. Atmospheric depth and feral intensity coexist in their compositions.
Helfró is a black metal project from Reykjavík, Iceland, active since 2020 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Iceland black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Helgafell is a atmospheric black metal band from England, England, formed in 2018. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Atmospheric black/death metal band from Esbjerg, Denmark, formed in 2021. Their atmospheric approach layers rich textures over extreme metal aggression from the North Sea coast of Jutland.
Helgen is a melodic death/black metal band from Saint-Étienne, France, formed in 2019. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Black metal band from Silkeborg, Denmark, formed in 2018. Named after the hell-gate from Norse mythology, they forge cold, atmospheric black metal from the Danish lake district.
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