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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Sofia-based project that evolved from raw black metal origins in 2019 toward a black/death metal hybrid. Their name, meaning "fear" in Bulgarian, reflects the menacing intensity of their sound as it has expanded across extreme metal's aggressive spectrum.
SAAC channel raw black metal from Espoo near Helsinki, embracing the lo-fi aesthetic that defines the genre's rawest wing. Formed in 2021, they bring stripped-back darkness to the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Sacerdoce channel raw black metal from the French underground, their priestly name ("Priesthood" in French) channeling religious intensity through lo-fi compositions. Active since 2007, they bring ecclesiastical darkness to the French black metal tradition.
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Satanic Blood channel raw black metal from the French underground, embracing the lo-fi aesthetic of the genre's rawest practitioners. Formed in 2023, they bring hemorrhagic darkness to the French black metal scene.
Sauvan Sankari (Finnish for "Hero of the Wand/Staff") channel raw black metal from the Finnish underground, embracing the lo-fi aesthetic of the genre's rawest practitioners. Formed in 2020, they bring shamanistic themes to Finnish black metal.
Moscow's Scorpan practice raw black metal from the Russian capital since 2022. Their arachnid-inflected name channels the predatory patience of scorpions into lo-fi compositions of capital-city darkness.
Saint Petersburg's Second to Sun practice raw black metal from the former imperial capital since 2011. Their cosmic name and cultural-capital origins channel the fire of approaching the sun into over a decade of atmospheric compositions.
Septentrion channel raw black metal from Turku, drawing their Latin name (meaning "north") from their Nordic geography. Active since 2018, they bring directionally appropriate rawness to the southwestern Finnish underground.
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