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The Blind Leading The Blind (2018)
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Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Hrvatski Paladin is a raw black metal/dungeon synth project from Zagreb, Croatia, active since 2024 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.
Hryggur is a raw black metal/ambient project from Aberdeen, United Kingdom, active since 2020 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.
Liverpool-based black metal project active since 2010. Their subterranean name suits dark, cavernous compositions mined from over a decade in the Merseyside underground.
HssH is a atmospheric black metal with industrial elements band from Paris, France, formed in 2013. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Melodic black/death metal band from Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium, formed in 2024. Their debut album Into The Abyss delivers eight tracks spanning nearly forty minutes of extreme metal that weaves between black, death, and thrash metal intensity.
Black metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2023. Their sound channels cold Scandinavian black metal traditions with a fresh, modern intensity from the Danish capital.
Raw black/folk metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2025. Their name meaning 'Black Host,' they blend raw black metal aggression with folk elements from the Catalan underground.
Dutch black metal/punk project channeling scorching darkness since 2017. Atmospheric depth and feral intensity coexist in their compositions.
Stoner doom metal project from Strasbourg in the Grand Est region, active since 2020. Their atomic name matches compositions of elemental heaviness, channeling cosmic doom from Alsace's cultural capital.
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