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Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Riitasointu is a black/folk metal band from Nurmijärvi near Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2021. Named after the Finnish word for 'discord,' the band weaves folk elements into black metal.
Riivaus is a black metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2012. Named after the Finnish word for 'possession,' the band channels dark, atmospheric black metal from Finland's third-largest city.
Bar thrash/death/black metal act formed in 2015, merging three extreme subgenres from Montenegro's Adriatic port city. Their genre-spanning aggression makes them a notable presence in the tiny Montenegrin metal scene.
Rimfrost is a Danish black metal project formed in 2019. Named after the Nordic word for hoarfrost, the project delivers cold, atmospheric black metal.
Rimruna is a black metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2012. The band channels atmospheric black metal from the German capital's diverse extreme metal underground.
Rimthurs is a black metal band from Hudiksvall, Sweden, active since 2018. Their album 'Gravskrift' explores the deepest depths of isolation and eternal death across nearly an hour of dark, nihilistic Swedish black metal.
Ringhorne is a black metal project from Sweden, active since 2014. Their album 'En stig fördömd' delivers atmospheric black metal with evocative Scandinavian-influenced compositions rooted in the Nordic tradition.
Black metal project from Lecco, Italy, active since 2016. Named after the Nazgûl of Tolkien's legendarium, the project channels dark fantasy through black metal from the Lake Como shores.
Rise of Nothingness is an industrial black/death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2023. The band fuses mechanical industrial elements with black and death metal from the French capital.
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