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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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An uncompromising black metal/post-rock project from Bjuv, active since 2019. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
Raw Black Metal force from Tampere, crushing and relentless since 2004. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Cold black metal (early); post-metal/rock (later) emanating from Gothenburg, active since 2004 within Sweden's metal scene. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
From Zeeland in Netherlands, this symphonic atmospheric black metal act brings relentless intensity to the regional scene since 2013. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Hyrde is a pagan black metal band from West Sussex, England, formed in 2024. They forge pagan-inspired black metal rooted in ancient traditions.
Hyrgal is a black metal project from France, active since 2017 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Black Metal project from Netherlands, forging vicious compositions since 2017. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Black metal band from Lorch, Germany, active since 2014. Their name meaning 'Hysteria,' they channel intense, frenzied black metal from the Rhine valley.
Black metal project from Magdeburg, Germany, active since 2017. Their atmospheric sound channels the cold bleakness of the North German Plain through raw black metal.
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