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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Curse of the Crystal Coconut (2020)
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Spanish black metal band from Pontevedra in Galicia, active since 2005. With two decades of history, they are a foundational act in the misty Galician black metal scene.
German black metal band from Cologne, formed in 2013. They deliver dark, ferocious black metal from the Rhineland underground.
Finnish melodic blackened death metal band formed in 2020. They blend blackened death metal with melodic elements, originally conceived as a comic webcomic project before becoming a full recording act.
French raw black metal band from Yutz in Lorraine, formed in 2015. They deliver raw, unfiltered black metal from the northeastern French border region.
Hungarian black metal and ambient project active since 2012, dissolving the boundaries between extreme metal and dark electronic soundscaping. Their work oscillates between passages of black metal fury and extended ambient meditations.
French progressive black/death metal band from Bordeaux, formed in 2015. They merge progressive complexity with extreme metal from the wine capital of France.
Spanish black metal band from Santa Cruz de La Palma in the Canary Islands, formed in 2019. Named after the indigenous name for the island, they channel volcanic black metal from the Atlantic.
German black metal, experimental, and ambient project formed in 2019. They dissolve the boundaries between black metal aggression, ambient soundscapes, and experimental composition.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Saint Petersburg, active since 2015. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
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