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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Sezession practice black metal from Cologne, their name ("Secession") suggesting a deliberate break from convention. Active since 2011, they've been a steady presence in the Rhineland's black metal underground.
Sg.7 fuse synthwave with raw black metal from Tampere, creating an unlikely but compelling hybrid of electronic retro-futurism and extreme metal. Formed in 2019, they bring neon-lit darkness to the Pirkanmaa underground.
Tolyatti's Shadar Logoth practice black metal named for the Wheel of Time cursed city since 2006. Two decades from Russia's automotive capital channel literary-fantasy darkness into atmospheric compositions.
Shaddai have been practicing black metal from Montreux since 1999, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Swiss black metal underground. Their decades of activity have produced a body of work steeped in darkness and the cold tradition of European black metal.
Umea's Shade of Black practice black metal from the northern Swedish university city since 2011. Over a decade from the Vasterbotten capital, their tonal-darkness name has shaped atmospheric compositions.
Shades of Extinction practice black metal from an undisclosed Slovak location since 2023. Their name of varied dying-out channels the multiple colors of annihilation into compositions of anonymous atmospheric darkness.
Shadow Cut forge blackened death metal from Helsinki, combining the atmospheric darkness of black metal with death metal's crushing weight since 2005. Their two decades make them veterans of the Finnish capital's extreme underground.
Shadow Hammer practice black metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2016. Their dark-percussion name channels the striking force wielded in shadow into atmospheric compositions of anonymous darkness.
Saint Petersburg's Shadow ov Fenris practice black metal from the cultural capital since 2015. Named for the Norse wolf that devours the sun, their mythological reference channels apocalyptic predation into atmospheric compositions.
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