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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Black, death, and pagan metal band from Tarbes in the French Pyrenees, active since 2014. They channel ancient pagan themes through extreme metal from the mountain foothills.
Blackened death metal band from Tarragona, Spain formed in 2015, featuring members of Between the Frost and session drummer Robert Kovacic of Belphegor. Their self-titled debut delivers raw aggression in the vein of Behemoth, God Dethroned, and Vader.
Black metal, death metal, and symphonic metal act from Barcelona, Spain active since 2015. They fuse extreme metal intensity with symphonic grandeur from the Catalan scene.
Death/doom metal act from Murcia, Spain formed in 2016, with members Sacrilegio, Santo Oficio, and Podredumbre. Their 2016 debut was recorded analogically in winter 2015 and released on limited cassette through Caligari Records.
Death/doom metal band from the small Austrian town of Weiz, fusing crushing low-end heaviness with mournful, glacial tempos since 2012. Their approach to death/doom draws on the genre's Scandinavian roots while filtering it through an Austrian lens.
Straddling the line between death metal and doom metal, this Swedish act fuses technically precise fretwork wrapped in visceral brutality into a cohesive whole. They've been at it since 2021, and their recordings carry the stench of early 90s death metal worship.
Death metal and deathcore band from Antibes on the French Riviera, formed in 2018. They bring crushing extremity from the sun-drenched Cote d'Azur.
Novosibirsk-based act active since 2008, evolving from gothic/doom/death metal origins into a heavier stoner/doom/death metal direction. Their stylistic evolution reflects a deepening commitment to crushing, riff-driven heaviness from Siberia's largest city.
Oldenzaal, Netherlands — death metal and doom metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2018, they deal in punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
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