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Featured Album
Drag Me to Hell (2021)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Black metal band from Dortmund, Germany, formed in 2021. They craft cold, intense black metal from the industrial heart of the Ruhr Valley.
Italian black metal project formed in 2020. Cenere — Italian for 'ash' — evokes themes of destruction and rebirth through atmospheric black metal.
Progressive extreme metal band from Jena, Germany, formed in 2021. They blend black metal, death metal, doom, and progressive elements into an ambitious, genre-defying sound.
Blackened death-thrash band from Gradisca d'Isonzo in Gorizia province, formed in 2019. Censura delivers a volatile mix of extreme subgenres from the Slovenian border region of Friuli.
Atmospheric black metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2014. Cepheide craft vast, immersive atmospheric black metal that has earned recognition in the French and international underground.
Atmospheric black metal project from the seaside town of Katwijk aan Zee, South Holland, active since 2012. Cepheus — named after the celestial constellation — channels cosmic atmospheres through expansive black metal.
Raw black metal project from Utrecht, formed in 2021. Cer delivers stripped-down, lo-fi black metal from the Dutch heartland.
Atmospheric black metal band from Brittany, France, formed in 2023. Their name meaning circle of the oak, they craft nature-inspired atmospheric black metal from the Celtic region.
Black-doom act from Rybinsk in Yaroslavl Oblast, active since 2015. Cerebrium merges atmospheric black metal with doom pacing from the Volga River city.
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