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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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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.
Melodic black metal and death metal band from Goppingen, Germany, formed in 2017. They weave melodic elements through the darkness of black and death metal from the Swabian foothills.
Melodic blackened death metal act from Tula, south of Moscow, active since 2010. Cavandish has spent over fifteen years crafting melody-infused extreme metal from the historic arms-making city.
Melodic black-death metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2015. They weave melodic elements through blackened death metal from the Bavarian capital.
Multi-genre extreme metal band from Piraeus/Athens, Greece, active since 2011. They weave together black metal, death metal, doom, and melodic elements into a despairing, ambitious sound.
Melodic black metal project from Poznań, formed in 2025. Characith — named after a qabalistic concept — channels melodic darkness from Greater Poland.
Melodic black metal act from the small town of Radoszyce in central Poland, active since 2006. Cherem has spent two decades crafting melody-driven black metal from the Świętokrzyskie region.
Polish melodic black metal pioneers from Morąg and later Olsztyn, with roots stretching back to 1990. Christ Agony is one of Poland's oldest and most respected black metal acts, with over three decades of blasphemous output.
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