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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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Post-black metal band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2017, crafting atmospheric post-black metal from the southernmost Swedish city. They bring experimental darkness to the Oresund region.
Black metal project from the Netherlands, formed in 2022, whose Finnish name means 'worship.' They bring devotional black metal darkness to the Dutch underground.
Atmospheric doom and black metal band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2017, whose clever name wordplay signals the painful entertainment of their music. They craft dark, immersive atmospheres from the Russian capital.
Black metal band from Sweden, formed in 2020, summoning demonic chaos through aggressive black metal. They bring pandemonium to the Swedish black metal underground.
Black metal band from Ulricehamn, Sweden, formed in 2020, spreading pandemic-level black metal from the Vastra Gotaland region. They bring over five years of darkness to the Swedish scene.
Melodic black metal band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2013, named after the genus of osprey hawks. They deliver soaring, melodic black metal from England's second-largest city.
Black metal band from Vastra Gotaland, Sweden, formed in 2016, whose Greek name means 'all-devouring.' They bring consuming black metal fury from western Sweden.
Black metal project from Finland, formed in 2018, whose name suggests universal sleep or death. They craft hypnotic, trance-like black metal that draws listeners into darkness.
Hamburg's Pantheion enters the symphonic black metal arena in 2026, channeling orchestral grandeur through the darkness of Germany's second-largest city. Their port-city origins connect them to a rich tradition of extreme metal emerging from the Hanseatic metropolis.
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