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Infinite Terror (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Depressive black metal project from Pilsen, Czech Republic, formed in 2023. They craft bleak, emotionally charged black metal steeped in melancholy and Carpathian occult themes.
Depressive black metal project from Finland, formed in 2021. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal steeped in despair and isolation.
Depressive black metal project from the UK, formed in 2024. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal.
Depressive black metal project from Kemerovo in the Kuzbass coal basin of Siberia, formed in 2024. Chapters of Misery channels bleak melancholy from the industrial heartland.
Depressive black metal project from Vilnius, Lithuania, active since 2010. Cheerful Depression — an oxymoronic name befitting the genre — channels deep melancholy through atmospheric black metal.
Depressive black metal project from Novorossiysk on the Black Sea coast, active since 2013. ChernoMor — a play on both 'Black Sea' and a character from Russian folklore — crafts melancholic black metal.
Depressive black metal project from Genk, Belgium, formed in 2019. Their self-titled debut spans seven tracks of anguished, atmospheric black metal across 38 minutes, exploring the bleakest corners of the genre.
Depressive black metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2017. They craft bleak, emotionally devastating black metal steeped in despair.
Depressive black metal project from Kungur in the Perm region, formed in 2019. Cold Bleeding channels bleak despair from the ice cave town of the Ural foothills.
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