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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)
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Scorching black/doom metal project from Helsinki, carving a path through Finland's underground since 2023. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Based in Florence, this black metal project has been a fixture of Italy's underground since 2011. Atmospheric depth and feral intensity coexist in their compositions.
Hellbomb is a black/thrash metal/hardcore punk act from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2014 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
Austrian black metal act from Lower Austria, formed in 2020. Their sound draws on raw black metal foundations with an aggressive, uncompromising approach to the genre.
Vicious black/thrash metal project from Turku, carving a path through Finland's underground since 2000. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Black/thrash metal band from Bamberg, Germany, active since 2015. Their ferocious blend of blackened fury and thrash velocity rages from the historic Franconian cathedral city.
Hellbutcher is a black metal project from Dals Långed, Sweden, active since 2016 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Sweden black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hellböözer is a speed/black metal project from Clermont-Ferrand, France, active since 2018 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hellchant is a black/death metal band from The Hague, the Netherlands, formed in 2016. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
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