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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Formed in 2016, this Stockholm Black Metal and Depressive Black Metal outfit delivers tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Depressive black metal project from Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, channeling bleakness and emotional torment since 2014. Their name, a variant of "eurythmy" meaning harmonious movement, provides an ironic contrast to the dissonant despair of their sound.
When Eyelids emerged in 2014 from Valsinni (Matera), they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal and depressive black metal — all raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Fabric of Being is a depressive black metal project from the United Kingdom, formed in 2024. The project channels anguish and existential dread through DSBM.
Fadheit is a depressive black metal project from Lodz, Poland, formed in 2018. Their German-derived name — meaning 'insipidness' or 'staleness' — captures the bleak, emotionally drained character of their depressive black metal from Poland's third-largest city.
Fading Life is a depressive black metal project from Sweden, formed in 2024. They channel the bleakness and emotional desolation of depressive black metal from the Scandinavian heartland of the genre.
Faergol is a depressive black metal project from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 2024. The project channels anguish and despair through atmospheric, emotionally charged black metal.
Failan is an atmospheric/depressive black metal project from Krasnoyarsk in central Siberia, formed in 2020. They channel the vast, frozen desolation of the Siberian landscape into anguished, atmospheric black metal from one of Russia's most isolated major cities.
Faint Pulse is a depressive black metal/shoegaze band from London, formed in 2023. The band merges the raw emotion of DSBM with the dreamy textures of shoegaze.
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