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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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Death-doom metal band from Paris, France, active since 2013. They merge the crushing weight of doom with death metal aggression from the French capital.
Death metal act from Nagyatád, Hungary, formed in 2013. Cold Reality delivers bleak, uncompromising extreme metal from the Somogy county underground.
Melodic death metal act from Kyiv, active since 2012. Cold Resistance has spent over a decade delivering hook-driven extreme metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Gothenburg death/black metal act formed in 2011, merging the city's legendary death metal heritage with black metal's atmospheric intensity. Their fusion approach draws from Sweden's deepest wells of extreme metal.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Alicante, Spain, formed in 2023. Cold Without Sun blend black metal, deathcore, and symphonic elements into an ambitious sound from the Mediterranean coast.
Symphonic melodic death-black metal band from Vantaa, Finland, formed in 2018. They weave symphonic elements through a foundation of blackened melodic death metal.
Melodic death metal and metalcore act from Valasske Mezirici, Czech Republic, formed in 2024. They fuse the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-style death metal with modern metalcore dynamics.
Melodic blackened death metal act from Rostov-on-Don, active since 2016. Colder than Moon delivers melody-infused extreme metal from the southern Russian steppe.
Melodic death-metalcore act from Barcelos, northern Portugal, formed in 2024. Coldfear blends melodic extremity with hardcore intensity from the Minho region.
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