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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 North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, active since 2016. Their commanding sound channels fierce black metal intensity from the most populous German state.
Heredes is a black metal project from Lyon, France, active since 2009 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
HereLiesIdio is a black/doom metal act from United Kingdom, active since 2025 and merging black metal's cold intensity with doom's suffocating weight. The project inhabits the darkest intersection of both genres.
Herelith is a melodic black/thrash metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2020. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Heresi is a black metal project from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2006 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Sweden black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Black/death metal act from Verviers, Belgium, active since 2013. Their savage blend of black and death metal channels the rawer side of Belgian extreme music with unrelenting ferocity.
Melodic death/black metal project from Germany, formed in 2023. Their fierce blend of melodic precision and black/death metal aggression brings a fresh voice to the German extreme underground.
A cold melodic black metal entity from Riga, contributing to the latvian underground since 1998. Atmospheric depth and feral intensity coexist in their compositions.
Heresiarkhes is a black metal project from Irkutsk, Russia, active since 2016 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Russia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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