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Featured Album
Drag Me to Hell (2021)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Curse of the Crystal Coconut (Digital Deluxe) (2020)
05/26 @ Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg
Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Black metal project from Grossbreitenbach, Germany, active since 2000. Named after the ancient Egyptian goddess, they have been channeling occult black metal from the Thuringian Forest for over two decades.
Black metal project from Niederwetz, Germany, formed in 2015. Named after the Norse wolf that chases the moon, they craft atmospheric black metal steeped in Norse mythology.
Hats Barn is a black metal project from Lille, France, active since 2010 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hailing from Ålesund in Norway, this black metal outfit channels aggressive energy since 2025. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Raw black metal project from Belgium, steadily building a body of work across four numbered demos since their formation in 2019. Each release strips the genre down to its most primal elements, favoring unpolished aggression over studio refinement.
Haunted Keep is a black metal project from Kraków, Poland, active since 2025 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Poland black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Raw lo-fi black metal outfit from Vienna, Austria, formed in 2023. Featuring Lord Blackout and Count Necro on vocals, Frost Commander on guitar, and The Machine on drums, they channel the rawest traditions of the second wave into stripped-down, forest-themed black metal.
Haunted Visions is a melodic black/death metal band from Fosen, Norway, formed in 2022. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
An uncompromising black metal act from the romanian underground, active since 2018. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
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