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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Austrian raw black metal project that emerged in 2024 with their debut release Satanic Shockwave, six tracks of straightforward satanic black metal composed and recorded during autumn 2023. Their limited-edition CD-R run of 30 hand-numbered copies sold out quickly.
Blackened grindcore and crust band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2012, named after the opium alkaloid protopine. Over a decade of chemical-fueled extremity from the Russian capital.
Post-black metal and post-punk band from Tomsk, Russia, formed in 2023, combining post-black metal atmospheres with post-punk aesthetics. They bring provocative hybrid music from western Siberia.
A 2025 death-thrash project from the Hessian town of Grünberg, Profet channels prophetic fury through riff-driven compositions. Their fresh arrival on the scene brings new energy to the central German extreme metal underground.
Manlleu's Pánico al Miedo — 'Panic at Fear' in Spanish — has been dealing death-thrash since 2018 from the Osona valley of central Catalonia. Their paradoxical name captures the genre's love of extremity, turning fear itself into something to be feared.
Black metal band from Sobienie-Jeziory, Poland, formed in 2017, whose name means 'primitive' in Polish. They deliver raw, stripped-down black metal true to their primal name.
Black metal band from Wroclaw, Poland, formed in 2026, whose name means 'predawn' in Polish. They represent the absolute newest wave of Polish black metal from the Lower Silesian capital.
Black and death metal band from Wroclaw and Zlotoryja, Poland, formed in 2014, whose name means 'pillory' in Polish. They deliver punishing blackened death metal from the Lower Silesian region.
Melodic black metal band from Bergen, Norway, formed in 2019, whose name fuses psalms with the satanic in characteristically Norwegian fashion. They bring melodic black metal to the city that shaped the genre.
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