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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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Raw black metal project from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2021. They craft lo-fi, uncompromising black metal stripped to its most primitive essence.
Genre-defying German extreme metal act, active since 2015. Chaos Cascade blend raw black metal, grindcore, and power metal into an unconventional and unpredictable sonic assault.
Raw black metal project originating from Czechia, now based in Langasjo, Sweden, formed in 2024. They craft primitive, stripped-down black metal rooted in lo-fi aesthetics and uncompromising rawness.
Raw black metal project from Nowy Sącz in Lesser Poland, formed in 2020. Chtonian delivers lo-fi, primitive black metal from the Sądecka Valley.
Raw black metal project from Luxembourg, formed in 2020. Chzustch channels lo-fi, abrasive black metal from the small European nation.
Raw black metal project from Kętrzyn in the Masurian region, formed in 2020. Cierń — Polish for 'thorn' — channels lo-fi, abrasive black metal from northeastern Poland.
Raw black metal project from Carinthia, Austria, active since 2009. They strip black metal down to its most primal elements, delivering lo-fi ferocity in the tradition of the rawest underground.
Raw black metal band from Toulon, France, formed in 2023. They deliver lo-fi, primitive black metal from the Var coast of Provence.
Raw black metal project from Tolyatti on the Volga, formed in 2022. Codex Moh channels lo-fi, stripped-down black metal from the Soviet-era auto city.
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