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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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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.
Bohuslan's Serpent Gate practice raw black metal from the West Swedish coastal province since 2025. Their ophidian-threshold name channels the passage through serpent-guarded doorways into lo-fi compositions of freshly-minted darkness.
Sg.7 fuse synthwave with raw black metal from Tampere, creating an unlikely but compelling hybrid of electronic retro-futurism and extreme metal. Formed in 2019, they bring neon-lit darkness to the Pirkanmaa underground.
Pyatigorsk's Shammash practice raw black metal from the North Caucasus spa city since 2014. Named for the Mesopotamian sun god, their mineral-springs origins channel ancient solar worship into lo-fi compositions.
Shigrath channel raw black metal from Cologne, embracing the lo-fi, unpolished aesthetic that defines the rawer end of the genre. Active since 2017, they bring a deliberately primitive sound to the Rhineland underground.
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