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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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Black metal project from Gorlitz, Germany, formed in 2026. The newest black metal voice from Germany's easternmost city on the Polish border.
An established black/sludge metal, hardcore voice from Ravenna, contributing to Italy's underground since 2016. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
Brutal black metal project from Ittiri (Sassari), carving a path through Italy's underground since 2023. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Hig Geat is a black metal project from Suffolk, United Kingdom, active since 2023 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the United Kingdom black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
High Dragon Priest is a atmospheric black metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2024. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Based in Skopje, this folk/black metal project has been a fixture of North Macedonia's underground since 2014. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Black metal project from Neuhaus am Rennweg/Sonneberg, Germany, formed in 2020. Their atmospheric black metal emerges from the remote forested highlands of the Thuringian Forest.
Hiidenhauta is a melodic black metal band from Pori, Finland, formed in 2013. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Hiidenkulkija is a black metal project from Kuopio, Finland, active since 2018 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Finland black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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