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Impetus Odi (2021)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Trial By Fire (2023)
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Brazen (2024)
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Progressive metal act from Fredrikstad, southeastern Norway, formed in 2020. Course of Fate crafts intricate, expansive progressive metal from the Østfold region.
Funeral doom act from Rivne in northwestern Ukraine, formed in 2023. Course of Sunrise crafts glacially slow, sorrowful doom infused with black metal atmospherics from the Volyn region.
Symphonic power metal act from Bratislava, formed in 2017. Courthouse delivers orchestral, anthem-driven power metal from the Slovak capital.
Black metal band from Bradford, England, active since 2012. They deliver cold, intense black metal from West Yorkshire.
Symphonic metal band from Dortmund, Germany, formed in 2023. They create grand, orchestral metal with lush arrangements from the Ruhr Valley.
Milanese black metal cult operating between Lombardy and Tuscany since 2020, devoted to Satanism, hell, and black magic through raw demo recordings and split releases with acts like The Rite and Goat Semen. Their output includes covers of Beherit, Impurity, and Sarcofago, placing them firmly in the bestial black metal underground.
Atmospheric black metal project from Germany, formed in 2023. They craft swamp-themed atmospheric black metal steeped in nature and occult darkness.
Doom metal band from Lower Saxony, Germany, formed in 2020. They deliver slow, crushing doom steeped in occult themes and ritualistic darkness.
Folk-infused black metal band from France, active since 2011. They weave folk elements and atmospheric layers through a black metal foundation.
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