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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 metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2016. They craft intense black metal from France's second city.
Pagan black metal band from Santander, Spain, active since 2003. With over two decades of history, CrystalMoors channel Celtic and pagan themes through atmospheric black metal from the Cantabrian coast.
Depressive black metal project from the rural village of Magla, active since 2021 and channeling isolation and anguish through bleak sonic landscapes. Their remote origins lend an authentically desolate quality to their despondent sound.
Black metal act from Szombathely, Hungary, active since 2009. Csejtey takes its name from the Hungarian spelling of Čachtice, the castle of the infamous Blood Countess Elizabeth Báthory.
Black-doom-progressive-stoner act from Rotterdam, formed in 2019. Cthuluminati merges Lovecraftian cosmic horror with genre-defying metal that spans doom, black, progressive, and stoner traditions.
Black-doom-sludge metal band from Lappeenranta, Finland, emerging in 2025. They merge black metal darkness with doom-sludge weight from the Finnish-Russian borderlands.
Atmospheric black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2017. They craft vast, Lovecraftian-themed atmospheric black metal from the Finnish capital.
Avant-garde black-death metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2024. They push extreme metal into unconventional territory from the French capital.
Black metal band from Delmenhorst, Germany, active since 2008. Named after a Lovecraftian deity, Ctulu craft cosmic and occult-themed black metal from the Lower Saxon flatlands.
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