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Featured Album
Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Finnish death/black metal band from Lappeenranta, formed in 2025. They deliver miasmic death/black metal from the southeastern border region.
French atmospheric black metal band from Lyon, formed in 2025. They deliver mole-dark atmospheric black metal from France's second city.
German black metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2016. They channel lunar darkness into raw, atmospheric black metal.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Russia, active since 2020. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Forged in 2021 from Russia, 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.
Italian symphonic metal act active since 2015, building their sound on lush orchestral arrangements, soaring vocals, and cinematic compositions. Their music draws from the European symphonic metal tradition of epic, larger-than-life heavy music.
Black metal project from Ireland, emerging in 2020. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Irish origins.
French post-black metal band from Épinal in the Vosges, formed in 2020. They craft majestic post-black metal from the forested mountain region of Lorraine.
Austrian black metal entity formed in 2012, operating in the shadows of the country's underground scene. They channel raw black metal intensity through a minimalist, uncompromising approach.
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