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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Black metal project from Athens, Greece, active since 2018. Their Old Norse-styled name channels Nordic-influenced black metal from the Mediterranean.
Røkkr is a black metal band from Aarhus, Denmark's second-largest city, formed in 2021. Named from the Old Norse word for 'twilight' or 'darkness,' the band channels atmospheric black metal from the Jutland coast.
Italian melodic black metal project formed in 2019, weaving melodic sophistication through black metal's aggressive framework. Their atmospheric approach balances beauty and ferocity.
Rüyyn is a black metal band from Angers in the Loire Valley of France, formed in 2021. The band channels atmospheric black metal from the Anjou region.
Rāhha is a black metal project from Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2018. The project delivers atmospheric black metal from the northern German lowlands.
Riga black/death/doom metal act formed in 2021, merging three extreme subgenres into a multi-layered sonic assault from Latvia's capital. Their ambitious fusion channels the darkest impulses of all three traditions.
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