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ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Black metal act from Kraków, active since 2010. Cień — Polish for 'shadow' — has spent over fifteen years crafting atmospheric black metal from the former royal capital.
Progressive metal band from Sheffield, England, formed in 2020. They craft intricate compositions from the Steel City.
Folk and heavy metal band from Valasske Mezirici in Moravian Wallachia, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. They blend traditional folk elements with heavy metal, drawing from the rich cultural heritage of their region.
Atmospheric black metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2018. Their name meaning cemetery in French, Cimetiere craft graveyard-inspired atmospheric black metal.
Doom metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. They channel oppressive doom atmospheres from the Finnish capital.
Death metal band from Tavernerio near Como, formed in 2023. Cimitero — Italian for 'cemetery' — deals in morbid, old-school death metal from the Lombardy foothills.
Stockholm black/death metal project formed in 2022, merging atmospheric intensity with guttural extremity. Their fusion of both genres creates a sound rooted in darkness and aggression.
Blackened death-thrash act from the small Overijssel town of Westerhaar-Vriezenveensewijk, formed in 2019. Cimmerii — named after the mythical people dwelling in eternal darkness — blends extreme subgenres from rural eastern Netherlands.
Death metal and deathcore band from Bradford, England, formed in 2018. They deliver crushing extremity from West Yorkshire.
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