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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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Black 'n' roll band from Tallinn, Estonia, formed in 2018. Their energetic fusion of black metal ferocity and rock 'n' roll swagger creates a uniquely rollicking take on extreme music.
Paris-based black metal project active since 2015. Their ethereal name evokes the first light of dawn, contrasting with dark compositions rooted in atmospheric black metal traditions.
Avant-garde black metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2023. Their experimental approach pushes black metal into unconventional, boundary-defying territory from the Rhine metropolis.
Black/death metal band from Grafenroda, Germany, formed in 2019. Their name meaning 'Hell Prince,' they forge darkened extremity from the Thuringian Forest.
A harsh raw black metal/ambient entity from Sweden, active since 2023. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Black metal project from Westerengel, Germany, formed in 2018. Their name meaning 'Hellstorm,' they channel ferocious black metal from the rural reaches of Thuringia.
Blackened thrash metal band from Aurich, Germany, active since 2013. Their fierce fusion of blackened atmosphere and thrash metal speed rages from the East Frisian coast.
Hörnhammer is a black metal project from Taranto, Italy, active since 2016 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Black metal project from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2020. Drawing on the dark mysticism of their Balkan homeland, they craft atmospheric black metal that evokes ancient forests and forgotten realms.
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