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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Grindcore Album
Scum (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Black-doom-thrash metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2024. They blend the darkness of black metal with doom weight and thrash aggression from the Hanseatic port city.
Depressive black metal project from Slovakia, formed in 2020. Cryptic Vampire channels vampiric melancholy through atmospheric black metal.
Russian black metal project formed in 2024. Crypticion channels enigmatic black metal atmospheres.
Black metal band from Jyvaskyla, Finland, formed in 2019. They craft dark, atmospheric black metal from the Finnish lake district.
Black metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2011. They craft atmospheric, Lovecraft-inspired black metal from the Swabian capital.
One-man atmospheric black metal project from Mogilev, Belarus, active since 2020. Across releases like The Epitome of Dystopia and Scythe of the Black Death, Cryptospital crafts dense, despairing atmospheres within a raw black metal framework.
Symphonic black metal project from Leuven, Belgium, formed in 2024. They blend orchestral grandeur with the ferocity of black metal, adding to the rich tradition of Belgian symphonic extremity.
Black and gothic metal band from Herne in the Ruhr, Germany, formed in 2014. They weave gothic darkness through a black metal framework.
Melodic blackened death metal act from Chernihiv in northern Ukraine, formed in 2021. Crystal Sword delivers melody-driven extreme metal from the ancient city near the Belarusian border.
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