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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
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Chapters of Repugnance (Deluxe Reissue) (2018)
05/11 @ Three Links Deep Ellum, Dallas
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Black Metal project from Finland, forging searing compositions since 2016. Atmospheric depth and feral intensity coexist in their compositions.
Hemiptera is a black metal/punk band from Brighton And Hove, England, formed in 2024. They fuse raw black metal aggression with punk's rebellious energy.
Hemlokk is a atmospheric black metal, neofolk band from West Sussex, England, formed in 2023. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Black metal band from Hildesheim, Germany, active since 2016. Named after the poisonous plant, they craft dark, atmospheric black metal from the ancient cathedral city of Lower Saxony.
Post-Black Metal outfit rooted in Hordaland, channeling harsh underground intensity since 2016. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
Based in Tampere, this avant-garde black metal project has been a fixture of Finland's underground since 2023. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Atmospheric black metal project from Bulgaria, active since 2009. Their ethereal approach layers misty, contemplative atmospheres over black metal foundations, creating a uniquely introspective take on the genre.
British black metal project active since 2024. Their corrupted name signals a defiant approach to black metal, emerging fresh from the UK underground.
Henoth is a ambient black metal project from Lyon, France, active since 2007 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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