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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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Active in Kraków since 2023, this Polish act forges Black Metal built on second-wave ferocity filtered through modern production sensibilities. Their recordings conjure desolation through sheets of tremolo-picked guitar.
Devotees of black metal, this Italian outfit has been refining their craft since 2016. Their sound hinges on corrosive riffing and misanthropic atmosphere, delivered with punishing consistency.
When Kirchhof emerged in 2025 out of Netherlands, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and raw black metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Black metal project from Ciudad Real in Castilla-La Mancha, formed in 2017 and channeling dark aggression from the plains of central Spain. Their output contributes to the growing diversity of Iberian black metal.
A product of the birthplace of black metal, this Vestfold og Telemark-based black metal act channels frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Active since 2013, blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Helsinki black metal project formed in 2021, with a Finnish name meaning "cursed." Their urban black metal channels the capital's darker undercurrents through cold, aggressive compositions.
Raw black metal project from Finland, formed in 2021 with a Finnish name meaning "cursed voice." Their lo-fi approach strips black metal to its most skeletal, harrowing essence.
Raw atmospheric black metal/ambient project from Laihia in Ostrobothnia, formed in 2022. Their Finnish name meaning "coffin" sets the funereal tone for their blend of raw atmospherics and ambient passages.
Black metal/ambient project from Seville, active since 2011 and blending raw black metal with expansive ambient passages from Andalusia. Their Icelandic-derived name adds a Nordic mystique to their southern Spanish origins.
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