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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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Risen from Ecstasy is a black metal project from Bad Berleburg in the Wittgenstein district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2020. The project channels black metal from the heavily forested Rothaar Mountains of eastern Westphalia.
Rising of Nadir is an atmospheric black metal band from Metz in Lorraine, northeastern France, active since 2016. The band delivers expansive, atmospheric black metal from the fortress city near the German border.
Blackened doom metal project from Norway's Møre og Romsdal county, formed in 2024. Their approach merges black metal's hostility with doom metal's crushing weight from the fjord country.
Black metal project from Reeuwijk, the Netherlands, active since 2018. Their satanic-themed name accompanies ritualistic black metal from the South Holland polders.
Black/death metal band from Trondheim, Norway, active since 2016. Their ritualistic name accompanies extreme metal from Norway's historic capital.
Black/death metal project from the UK, formed in 2025. Their extreme name accompanies aggressive black/death metal.
Raw black metal project from the Donetsk Oblast, formed in 2021 and channeling primal aggression from one of Ukraine's most conflict-affected regions. Their lo-fi approach embraces the harshness central to raw black metal.
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Ritualia Hominis is a German black metal project formed in 2018, exploring ritualistic and occult themes through atmospheric black metal. The project maintains a deliberately enigmatic presence in the underground.
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