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Featured Album
Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Black and death metal band from Heumont-Rehon in northern France, active since 2016 and channeling dual-genre aggression from near the Belgian border. Their sound fuses the cold atmospheres of black metal with death metal's brutal weight.
Blackened death metal band from Palma, Mallorca, creating ancient-themed extremity inspired by the Classical Roman era since 2010. Their albums Bellum internecinum and The Dogs of War draw from Roman history featuring narratives around Caesar, Pompey, and the Gallic Wars.
Ambient and black metal project from Kent, England, active since 2015 and blending atmospheric ambient textures with black metal's darkness. Their sound creates uncanny sonic landscapes that bridge the contemplative and the extreme.
Black metal and grindcore hybrid from Liverpool, England, active since 2013. Their unconventional combination of black metal's atmospheric darkness with grindcore's blasting brevity creates a distinctive extreme metal voice from Merseyside.
Unconquered is a Swedish black/death metal project formed in 2026, representing the newest wave of Scandinavian extreme metal. The project channels black and death metal aggression through a fresh lens.
Death, black, and doom metal band from Oulu, Finland, active since 2022 and blending three extreme subgenres into a single devastating sound. Their approach channels the darkness of black metal through death and doom metal's crushing weight.
Black and death metal band from Lambrugo near Como, Italy, active since 2005 with two decades in the Lombard underground. Their dual-genre approach blends the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing weight.
Black and thrash metal band from Bergen, Norway, active since 2013. Their location in the cradle of Norwegian black metal lends weight to their fusion of black and thrash traditions.
French black metal project active since 2022, taking their name from the Dark Souls video game location. Their approach to black metal channels the dark fantasy aesthetic of their namesake through atmospheric extremity.
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