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Featured Album
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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Welsh black metal band from Cardiff, formed in 2020 and channeling dark intensity through the Welsh underground. Their name references the roofed gateway to a churchyard, evoking the liminal space between life and death.
Spanish black metal project from Alicante, channeling raw darkness since 2020. Their sound embraces black metal's hostile atmosphere through a Mediterranean underground lens.
Swedish post-black metal band from Umea, formed in 2023 and blending atmospheric beauty with blackened intensity. Their name, meaning 'the suffering' in Swedish, captures the anguished core of their post-black approach.
Swedish black metal band from Jonkoping, formed in 2024 and named after the Czech village infamous for a WWII massacre. Their historically charged name signals the gravity and darkness of their black metal.
Norwegian black metal band from Bergen, formed in 2021 and channeling the city's storied black metal heritage. Their Old Norse name, meaning 'shield of protection,' connects them to Bergen's legendary black metal lineage.
French melodic black metal project formed in 2024, crafting harmonic darkness with pastoral, riverine imagery. Their approach blends nature-inspired contemplation with black metal's aggressive framework.
German melodic black/death metal band from Mainz, active since 2013 and blending harmonic richness with extreme metal aggression. Their sound channels melodic sensibility through the dual lens of black and death metal intensity.
Ukrainian raw black metal/crust band from Kharkiv, merging blackened hostility with punk rawness since 2016. Their nihilistic name channels the bleak, desperate energy of their volatile hybrid from Ukraine's embattled east.
Russian atmospheric black metal band from Nizhny Novgorod, crafting immersive, sorrowful compositions since 2013. Their descriptive name captures the enduring despair that permeates their atmospheric sound.
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