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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Avant-garde black metal project from Sweden active since 2010. Whirling pushes black metal into experimental, avant-garde territory with unconventional compositions and dissonant textures.
Black 'n' roll band from Parma, Italy active since 2009. Whiskey Ritual fuses the raw aggression of black metal with rock and roll's swagger and booze-soaked attitude.
Atmospheric and pagan black metal project from Germering, Germany active since 2018 with releases A Depraved Ritual and Burying The Bleeding Thrones. Their sound weaves pagan themes and atmospheric textures into a foundation of raw black metal.
Black metal band from Östergötland, Sweden formed in 2022. White Dawn delivers atmospheric black metal from the historic heartland of eastern Sweden.
Black metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland formed in 2017. White Death channels the freezing darkness of the Finnish-Russian border region into ferocious, uncompromising black metal.
Symphonic black/gothic metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia active since 2013. White Egregor weaves symphonic and gothic elements into black metal from the city on the Neva.
Black metal project from Gomersal, West Yorkshire active since 2011. White Medal channels the bleak moors and post-industrial landscapes of northern England through raw, lo-fi black metal with a distinctly English character.
Black metal band from Naberezhnye Chelny, Russia formed in 2021. White Midnight delivers raw black metal from the industrial Tatar city on the Kama River.
Black metal band from Severodvinsk, Russia formed in 2021. White Night/Black Forest channels the extreme contrast of Arctic light and boreal darkness into atmospheric black metal from the White Sea coast.
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