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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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An established black metal voice from Limoges-Cité / Aixe-sur-Vienne, contributing to France's underground since 2015. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Deathcore/melodic black metal band from Hof, Germany, active since 2017. Their unusual fusion of deathcore breakdowns and melodic black metal creates a distinctively intense crossover from Upper Franconia.
Heresyarch is a black metal project from Zhukovsky, Russia, active since 1998 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Russia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
An uncompromising pagan black metal act from the finnish underground, active since 2025. Rooted in orthodox black metal, their work channels darkness with unwavering conviction.
Heretic Behest is a raw black metal project from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, active since 2018 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Black metal project from Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2022. Their occult-themed sound channels ritualistic black metal darkness from the Bavarian underground.
Based in Caltanissetta, this symphonic black metal project has been a fixture of Italy's underground since 2019. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Death/black metal band from Leon, Spain, active since 2008. Their fierce blend of death and black metal aggression comes from the historic medieval kingdom's capital.
Heretique is a thrash/black/death metal band from Gliwice, Poland, formed in 2009. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
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