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La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
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The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/13 @ Fox Theatre Detroit, Detroit
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Streams of Blood channel black metal from the Franconian Main Valley town of Erlenbach, exploring themes of bloodshed and darkness. Active since 2009, they bring sanguine intensity to the Bavarian black metal landscape.
Strife practice black metal from Barcelona, channeling the genre's confrontational fury from the Catalan capital. Active since 2015, they bring Mediterranean strife to the Spanish black metal underground.
Strigiform deliver avant-garde black and death metal from an undisclosed Italian location since 2009. Named for the owl order, their nocturnal-predator identity suits compositions of hunting, calculated extremity.
Strigon channel black metal from the Asturian city of Gijon, drawing their name from Romanian vampire folklore. Active since 2018, they bring Cantabrian darkness to the northern Spanish black metal scene.
Parma's Strikehammer pair black and speed metal from the Emilian food capital since 2023. Their name of percussive violence channels hammerblows of blackened aggression through compositions of relentless force.
Cavizzana's Strion practice black metal from a tiny Trentino village in the Val di Sole since 2020. Their extreme Alpine isolation naturally informs a sound shaped by mountain cold and solitude.
Belluno's Strix channel black metal named for the mythological owl-vampire from the Dolomite foothills since 2008. Nearly two decades of Venetian-Alpine black metal have produced a body of distinctly atmospheric work.
Strunkiin evolved from melodic death metal into atmospheric black metal, tracing a journey from harmonic aggression toward immersive, layered soundscapes. Active since 2016, they bring transformative intensity to the Finnish black metal scene.
Sturmfolk channel pagan black metal from North Rhine-Westphalia, fusing pre-Christian themes with the aggressive intensity of black metal. Formed in 2024, they bring Germanic pagan traditions to the western German underground.
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