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Featured Album
Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Gothic metal and metalcore band from Athens, Greece, active since 2008. Their long-running project blends gothic atmosphere with metalcore's dynamic intensity.
Turin black/gothic metal act formed in 2010, merging atmospheric darkness with gothic grandeur from Piedmont's capital. Their dual approach weaves black metal intensity through gothic metal's dramatic and melancholic framework.
Ratisha is a gothic metal/rock band from Durham in northeast England, formed in 2025. The band delivers dark, atmospheric gothic metal from the medieval cathedral city.
Gothic metal band from Leiria, Portugal, active since 2018. Their approach delivers dark atmospheric gothic metal from the central Portuguese city.
Ravenblack is a gothic/heavy metal band from Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 2016. The project merges the dark atmospherics of gothic metal with heavy metal drive from western Germany's wine country.
Gothic/death metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2021. Their approach blends gothic atmosphere with death metal's intensity from Italy's fashion capital.
Ravencrown is a melodic gothic metal/rock band from Oulu in northern Finland, formed in 2020. The band blends gothic atmospherics with melodic metal from one of Finland's northernmost major cities.
Ravendark is a gothic metal/rock band from Effelder in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2014. The project blends dark gothic atmospheres with rock and metal from the rural forests of central Germany.
Progressive/gothic metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2020. Their approach combines progressive complexity with gothic metal's dark elegance.
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