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Featured Album
Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Rehab (24-bit HD Audio, Bonus Tracks Version) (2023)
05/25 @ The Theater at MGM National Harbor, National Harbor
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Progressive metal band from Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, active since 2012, featuring vocalist Carl Sentance. Their album 'Behind the Veil of Oblivion' critiques modern society's loss of authentic values through seven tracks of thoughtful, philosophically charged progressive metal.
Black metal project from Piedmont, formed in 2025. Colombario — Italian for 'columbarium,' a vault for cremation urns — channels funereal themes through raw black metal.
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Bergen-based black metal project formed in 2023, drawing from multiple stylistic veins to create a varied and unpredictable sonic palette. Their approach defies easy categorization within Norway's storied black metal tradition.
Progressive atmospheric black metal project from Obninsk, a science city near Moscow, formed in 2020. Colorful Shadows blends contemplative progressive structures with black metal atmospherics.
Russian black metal project formed in 2011. Colorless Forest channels desolate, nature-themed black metal.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Kokkola, Finland, formed in 2021. They blend melodic sensibilities with metalcore dynamics from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Death-doom and gothic metal band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They layer melancholic gothic atmospheres over crushing death-doom foundations, creating a dark and emotionally resonant sound.
Portuguese black metal project formed in 2015. Colossal Void channels cavernous, expansive black metal.
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