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Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Black metal project from Corfu, Greece, formed in 2023. The project channels hostile black metal from the Ionian island.
Ravenclaw is a black metal project from Schneeberg in Saxony's Erzgebirge mountains, Germany, formed in 2021. The project channels cold, misanthropic black metal from the Ore Mountains of eastern Germany.
Melodic Viking/black metal band from Voronezh, Russia, active since 2010. Their approach channels Norse mythology through melodic black metal from central Russia.
Black and thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2007. Their approach evolved from pure black metal into a blackened thrash direction across nearly two decades.
Ravendusk is an atmospheric black metal band from Jyväskylä in central Finland, formed in 2023. The band delivers expansive, nature-inspired atmospheric black metal from the Finnish lake district.
Ravenfrost is a black/doom metal and ambient project from Schmelz in the Saarland region of Germany, active since 2013. The project layers ambient textures over black and doom metal foundations, creating expansive, atmospheric soundscapes from western Germany.
RavenGhast is an English black metal project formed in 2020. The project channels dark, atmospheric black metal from the English underground.
Black metal project from Bergen, Norway. The project channels black metal from the city that birthed Norwegian black metal.
Ravenheit is a black metal project from the Sinzig/Brohl-Lützing area in the Rhine valley of Germany, formed in 2025. The project represents the newest wave of German black metal emerging from the volcanic Eifel foothills.
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