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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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Gothic death-doom act from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2021. Cult of Decay merges dark atmospherics with crushing doom and death metal.
Gothic industrial black metal act from Katowice, active since 2014. Cult ov Mora blends dark electronic textures with black metal and gothic atmospherics from the Silesian capital.
Gothic black doom act from Milan, one of Italy's veteran extreme metal bands with origins in 1995. Cultus Sanguine — Latin for 'cult of blood' — has spent three decades crafting dark, atmospheric metal that bridges gothic, black, and doom traditions.
Gothic metal band from Offenburg in Baden, Germany, formed in 2015. They weave dark, melancholic atmospheres into a heavy metal framework from the Upper Rhine.
Gothic metal act from the seaside resort city of Sopot, formed in 2014. Cyanide Kiss crafts dark, romantic gothic metal from the Tri-City area on the Baltic coast.
Gothic metal act from Padua, formed in 2016. Cyber Cross blends dark electronic textures with gothic metal from the Veneto region.
Gothic industrial metal act from Stange in Hedmark, active since 2008. Cynicon merges dark electronic elements with gothic metal from the Norwegian interior.
Gothic metal band from Hamminkeln in the Lower Rhine region, Germany, formed in 2022. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic metal from the North Rhine-Westphalian countryside.
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