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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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Symphonic gothic death metal act from Štúrovo, Slovakia, near the Hungarian border, formed in 2025. Canvasser delivers orchestral extreme metal from the Danube frontier.
Gothic metal band from Duisburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They weave melancholic atmospheres and dark beauty into a heavy metal framework.
Gothic metal act from Utrecht, formed in 2021. Cardamon brings dark, melodic atmospherics to the Dutch gothic metal tradition.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Oulu, Finland, active since 2009. Catamenia weave black metal, death metal, gothic metal, and melodic elements into an expansive, multi-faceted sound from northern Finland.
Gothic doom-black metal band from Tartu, Estonia, active since 2002. They weave gothic darkness and doom weight through a black metal framework from Estonia's university city.
Gothic and symphonic metal band from Seligenstadt, Germany. They blend orchestral grandeur and gothic atmospheres into a darkly melodic metal sound.
Atmospheric gothic doom-black metal band from Patras, Greece, formed in 2015. They weave dark, melancholic atmospheres through a fusion of doom, black, and gothic metal from the Peloponnese.
Death and gothic metal band from Nachrodt in the Sauerland region of Germany, formed in 2018. They blend the aggression of death metal with the dark atmospheres and melodic sensibility of gothic metal.
Doom and gothic metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They weave melancholic atmospheres and heavy, slow-burning riffs through a darkly romantic lens.
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