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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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Melodic black metal outfit from Rijeka, formed in 2014. Layers of orchestration and twin-guitar harmonies elevate their compositions beyond standard black metal into more expansive territory.
German melodic black metal band from Aichach in Bavaria, formed in 2017. They weave melodic elements into a black metal framework with atmospheric depth.
Aprilia (Latina)-based melodic black metal project active since 2017, tempering raw aggression with sweeping arrangements and harmonized guitar leads. Their approach balances the genre's inherent hostility with moments of dark grandeur.
Melodic blackened death metal project from Manchester, formed in 2018 by songwriter Dan Pyke with vocalist Barry Cooke. Their Burnt At The Stake EP explores dark medieval themes of witch trials, execution, and heresy through atmospheric, melodic extremity.
German melodic black metal project formed in 2022. They infuse black metal's rawness with sweeping melodies and a distinctly melancholic atmosphere.
Welsh-American unblack metal project blending raw, lo-fi production with sweeping melodic passages across releases like Evangelism and It Is Finished. Their sound applies the aesthetic framework of second-wave black metal to spiritually-themed lyrical content.
Melodic black metal outfit from Russia, formed in 2016. Layers of orchestration and twin-guitar harmonies elevate their compositions beyond standard black metal into more expansive territory.
Trondheim-based melodic black/death metal act active since 2018, threading sweeping melodies through a framework of extreme metal aggression. Their sound occupies the intersection where tremolo-picked black metal atmospherics meet death metal's guttural weight.
Albanian melodic black/death metal act from Tirana, formed in 2021, striving to bring a distinctly Albanian character to extreme metal. Their demo material blends tremolo-picked melodies with death metal aggression.
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