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Featured Album
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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Gothic doom act from Sarpsborg, southeastern Norway, active since 2002. Crowhead has spent over two decades crafting melancholic, atmospheric metal bridging gothic and doom traditions.
Gothic melodic death metal act from Milan, active since 2011. Crown of Autumn blends autumnal melancholy with death metal ferocity and gothic atmospherics.
Symphonic gothic power metal band from Madrid, Spain, emerging in 2025. They create grand, orchestral metal with dramatic vocal performances.
Gothic metal band from Vienna, Austria, active since 2013, with roots going back to their 2009 debut 'Arise of the Berserk.' They weave dark, atmospheric gothic metal with a dramatic sensibility befitting their Viennese origins.
Gothic black metal project from Chita in the Transbaikal region of eastern Siberia, formed in 2022. Crucifixus crafts dark, atmospheric metal from one of Russia's most remote cities.
Gothic and heavy metal band from Hamina, Finland, formed in 2016. They weave dark, emotional atmospheres into a heavy metal framework from the southeastern coast.
Black and gothic metal band from Herne in the Ruhr, Germany, formed in 2014. They weave gothic darkness through a black metal framework.
Gothic melodic death metal band from the Karlsruhe/Stuttgart area, Germany, active since 2004. They merge dark gothic atmospheres with melodic death metal harmonies across two decades of activity.
Gothic metal project from Budapest, formed in 2024. Crystallite explores dark romanticism and melodic beauty within a heavy gothic metal framework.
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