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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Black, death, and gothic metal band from Tagewerben in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, formed in 2014. They weave together the darkness of black and death metal with gothic atmospheres.
Malmö gothic/doom metal act formed in 2022, merging dark romance with crushing heaviness from Sweden's southernmost major city. Their sound explores the emotional territory where gothic atmospherics meet doom's ponderous weight.
Gothic blackened death metal act from the Bergen suburb of Hjellestad, formed in 2023. Claymords blends dark atmospherics with extreme metal from western Norway.
Gothic and progressive metal band from Turku, Finland, formed in 2017. They weave dark gothic atmospheres into progressive metal structures.
Gothic metal band from Gladenbach, Germany, formed in 2015. They weave melancholic atmospheres and dark beauty into a heavy, emotionally resonant sound.
Genre-spanning band from London, active since 2009. Cold in Berlin blend death metal, doom, gothic, and stoner influences into a dark, theatrical sound.
Gothic metal band from the Hauts-de-France region, active since 2002. They weave dark, melancholic atmospheres into a heavy metal framework from northern France.
Gothic progressive doom act from Sovetskaya Gavan on Russia's Pacific coast, formed in 2019. Collider merges dark atmospherics with progressive complexity from one of the Far East's most remote port cities.
Gothic melodic death metal band from Urbach, Germany, formed in 2020. They weave dark gothic atmospheres into melodic death metal from the Swabian Rems Valley.
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