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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
De Doorn (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
05/13 @ The Rust Belt, East Moline
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Uncompromising death metal from Łódź, active since 2021. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Kharkiv, active since 2018. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Forged in 2020 from Kraków, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Post-black metal act from Minsk, Belarus, active since 2010. They expand black metal's boundaries with post-metal dynamics and atmospheric layering.
Raw black metal project from Minsk, Belarus, active since 2017. They channel the lo-fi, uncompromising spirit of raw black metal.
German atmospheric black metal band from Bremen, active since 2003. With over two decades of output, they are one of Bremen's longest-running atmospheric black metal projects.
French sludge/black metal band from Sainte-Jalle in Drôme, formed in 2015. They merge sludge metal's toxic weight with black metal's intensity from the Provençal countryside.
Spanish symphonic black metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2020. They pair orchestral grandeur with black metal ferocity from the Catalan capital.
Manchester post-black metal project formed in 2013, blending blackened crust with post-rock dynamics. Their eight-track release merges the raw intensity of crust punk with black metal's atmospheric darkness and the expansive arrangements of post-rock.
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