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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)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
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Sorgarnótt practice raw black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2023. Their Old Norse-influenced name blending "sorrow" and "night" channels Scandinavian-derived grief into lo-fi compositions of anonymous darkness.
Stalen Gezicht practice raw black metal from the Utrecht province with a Dutch name meaning "steel face" since 2019. Their metallic-visage name channels impassive, unyielding aggression through lo-fi compositions.
Norrkoping's Status Noll practice raw black metal with punk influences since 2014. Their Swedish name meaning "status zero" channels the annihilation of social standing into lo-fi compositions of over a decade of Ostergotland darkness.
Styx Poseidon practice raw black metal from the German underground, drawing their name from the river separating the living from the dead and the lord of the seas. Formed in 2021, they combine mythological depth with lo-fi aggression.
Raw black metal project from Dendermonde in East Flanders, active since 2021, named after the cloth said to have covered Christ's face in the tomb. Their lo-fi, stripped-down approach embraces the most primal aspects of black metal.
Svarm channel raw black metal from Berlin, embracing the lo-fi, unpolished aesthetic that defines the genre's rawest wing. Emerging in 2025, they bring stripped-back ferocity to the German capital's vast black metal scene.
Svartokunnighet practice raw black metal from Lausanne, with their Swedish-language name (meaning "black magic") signaling allegiance to the Scandinavian black metal tradition. Formed in 2022, they channel the lo-fi ferocity of the genre's rawest practitioners.
Warsaw's Sznyt practice raw black metal from the Polish capital since 2020. Their Polish name meaning "cut" or "slash" channels edged violence into lo-fi compositions of capital-city extremity.
Szel blend raw black metal with ambient from the Spanish underground, their Hungarian-word name ("wind") adding an unexpected Central European dimension to their Iberian compositions. Active since 2017, they bring wind-swept darkness to the Spanish black metal scene.
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