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Featured Album
Drag Me to Hell (2021)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
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Black metal act from Almada, across the Tagus from Lisbon, formed in 2019. Caixão — Portuguese for 'coffin' — channels raw, morbid black metal.
Progressive death metal band from Finland, formed in 2016. They merge progressive complexity with death metal intensity.
Brutal death metal and grindcore act from Lausanne, Switzerland, formed in 2021. They channel a punishing, blast-beat-driven assault that merges grind intensity with guttural death metal extremity.
Folk and gothic metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2017. Their sound weaves melodic folk elements and gothic atmospheres into a rich, darkly romantic brand of metal.
Gothic doom act from Warsaw, formed in 2023. Caladria blends dark romanticism with crushing doom from the Polish capital.
Melodic death metal band from Funchal, the capital of Madeira island in the Atlantic, active since 2012. Calamity Islet delivers island-forged extreme metal from Portugal's most remote outpost.
Pirate folk metal band from Winterthur, Switzerland, self-described as five pirates whose music inspires moshing, headbanging, and celebration. Their releases Surrender Or Die and Cruel and Cold merge folk and death metal with a raucous pirate theme.
Gothic metal band from London, formed in 2014. They weave dark, melancholic atmospheres into heavy metal from the English capital.
Atmospheric black metal project from Halle (Saale), Germany, formed in 2024. They craft dense, layered black metal atmospheres inspired by nature and introspection.
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