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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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Saint Petersburg's Siege Golem practice raw black metal from the cultural capital since 2021. Their name of animated-stone warfare channels the constructedness of magical defenders into lo-fi compositions.
Signaux du Vide, meaning 'signals from the void,' is a French raw black metal project incorporating dark ambient elements, launched in 2024. Their compositions oscillate between harsh, lo-fi black metal passages and cavernous electronic drones.
Sjaelevrid (Danish for "Soul Wrench") deliver raw black metal from Copenhagen, tearing at the spiritual fabric with their harsh, stripped-back compositions. Emerging in 2025, they bring fresh Danish-language fury to the capital's black metal underground.
Skogskra practice raw black metal from the Sauerland town of Balve, drawing their name from Scandinavian forest mythology. Active since 2013, they channel the lo-fi ferocity of raw black metal through a distinctly forested, mountainous German setting.
Sodomistic Harem practice raw black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2022. Their deliberately transgressive name channels maximum provocation into lo-fi compositions of anonymous darkness.
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.
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