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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Grave Mounds And Grave Mistakes (Luxus) (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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We Rule the Waves (2025)
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Danish death metal band from Tilst near Aarhus, active since 2009. They bring bloodlust-fueled death metal to the Jutland scene.
Danish band from Gråsten, formed in 2017, whose sound evolved from groove/death metal toward black metal. Their stylistic transformation reflects an increasingly dark and atmospheric vision.
French death/black metal band from Périgueux in Dordogne, formed in 2024. They forge blood-eagle death/black metal from the Périgord countryside.
Danish death metal band from Odense, formed in 2016. They deliver punishing death metal from the island of Funen.
Danish death metal and deathcore band from Herning, formed in 2025. They bring new blood to the Jutland extreme metal underground.
Thrash metal outfit from Moscow, formed in 2023. Their compositions hit with the urgent intensity that defines the genre at its best: fast, tight, and unapologetically aggressive.
Uncompromising death metal from Oslo, active since 2008. Their material trades in the genre's heaviest traditions: cavernous vocals, churning guitar work, and percussion that hits with tectonic force.
Forged in 2018 from Borås, 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.
German black/death/doom metal band from Oberhausen, formed in 2019. They draw from three extreme metal subgenres for a layered, oppressive sound from the Ruhr Valley.
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