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Featured Album
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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Sludge/gothic/death metal band from Palafolls, Spain, formed in 2023. Their genre-spanning approach blends sludge heaviness, gothic atmosphere, and death metal brutality from the Catalan coast.
Gothic metal/rock band from Minsk, Belarus, formed in 2020. Their releases including Magmatic Feelings blend dark, gothic atmospheres with rock accessibility, contributing to the Belarusian underground metal scene.
Gothic metal band from Vienna, Austria, blending dark melancholy with heavy riffs. Their sound draws on the tradition of European gothic metal, merging clean and harsh vocal styles with atmospheric arrangements.
Thrash metal outfit from Edinburgh, active since 2022. Their Germanic-sounding name adds character to aggressive thrash compositions from the Scottish capital.
Rooted in La Spezia's underground, this gothic metal project delivers fierce compositions with conviction since 2017. Their sound delivers the intensity their genre demands with focused execution.
Heavy metal act from Jaén in Andalusia, active since 2022. Their sound channels classic heavy metal traditions from the olive-growing heartland of southern Spain.
Gothic Metal act from Umeå in Sweden, active since 2019 and delivering punishing extremity. Their sound delivers the intensity their genre demands with focused execution.
Hazael is a death metal (early/later); doom/gothic metal (mid) band from Płock, Poland, formed in 2020. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Heavenless is a gothic metal/rock band from Paris, France, formed in 2017. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic metal layered with emotional depth.
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