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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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Forged in 2025 from Athens, 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.
French black metal band from Toulouse, active since 2002. With over two decades of output, they are a seasoned presence in the Occitan black metal underground.
Czech black/speed metal band from Havířov, formed in 2014. They deliver a fierce combination of black metal rawness and speed metal velocity.
Bratislava-based progressive/post-metal act active since 2018, building dynamic compositions that traverse atmospherics and crushing heaviness through extended, narrative-driven structures. Their patient songwriting rewards the listener with cathartic builds.
Forged in 2015 from Apatin, 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.
Two-man black/death metal war machine from Glasgow, formed in 2025. Their releases War Charge of the Infernal Cabal and Comatose Mutilation deliver extreme, visceral aggression from the Scottish underground.
German black/death metal band from Aschaffenburg, formed in 2023. They deliver extreme, provocative black/death metal with an uncompromising approach.
Finnish black/thrash metal band from Lappeenranta, formed in 2016. They deliver bestial black/thrash from the southeastern Finnish border.
German black/thrash metal band from Flensburg, formed in 2016. They fuse black metal's darkness with thrash metal's speed from Germany's northernmost city on the Danish border.
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