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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Groove Metal Album
Nihility (2002)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Inhale The Noise (2026)
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Black metal project from Italy, emerging in 2020. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Italian origins.
German black metal band from Thuringia, formed in 2016. They contribute to the Thuringian black metal underground with raw, uncompromising compositions.
Finnish black/doom metal band from Kuopio, formed in 2016. They merge black metal darkness with doom metal's oppressive weight from the eastern Finnish lake country.
Rimini-based death metal act active since 2021, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
Finnish black metal band from Etelä-Pohjanmaa (South Ostrobothnia), formed in 2013. They deliver pharmaceutical-named black metal from the Finnish flatlands.
Forged in 2023 from Overijssel, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Drawing from the contemplative side of black metal, this Slovak project channels Bratislava's spirit into sweeping, atmosphere-laden compositions. Since 2014, their recordings balance raw aggression with passages of fragile, melancholic beauty.
Oslo-based stoner/doom outfit active since 2013, conjuring thick clouds of fuzz-laden riffage and hypnotic, groove-driven compositions. Their sound channels the haze of 1970s proto-metal through a modern lens of distortion-worship and lysergic exploration.
Manchester stoner/sludge metal band formed in 2018, self-described northern stoner doom heavyweights. Their growing catalog including Solitude and Savagery and Mean Sugar delivers massive, slow-burning heaviness with the grit expected from the north of England.
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