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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Furious atmospheric/depressive black metal project from Amsterdam, carving a path through Netherlands's underground since 2018. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
Born in the devastating underground of Borlänge, this raw black metal/punk act has delivered unflinching intensity since 2021. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Hollengammler is a progressive black metal project from Poltava, Ukraine, active since 2024 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Ukraine black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Raw black metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, active since 2015. Their stripped-down, lo-fi approach embraces the most primitive currents of black metal.
Hollow Lives is a depressive black metal band from Reigate, England, formed in 2015. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
Scorching black metal emanating from Helsinki, active since 2018 within Finland's metal scene. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
Black metal band from Erfurt, Germany, active since 2002. Over two decades of cold, uncompromising black metal from the Thuringian capital have made them one of the region's most enduring underground acts.
Based in Hyvinkää, this black metal project has been a fixture of Finland's underground since 2011. Rooted in orthodox black metal, their work channels darkness with unwavering conviction.
Black metal project from Germany, active since 2012. Their grim approach channels the darkest currents of the German black metal underground with raw, unyielding intensity.
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