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Featured Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Power Metal Album
Big Ship Little Ship / Bassline Junkie (2020)
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Featured Heavy Metal Album
Trial By Fire (2023)
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Black metal, crust punk, and sludge band from Manchester, England active since 2012. They fuse raw punk energy with blackened sludge from the industrial north.
Sicily, Italy — atmospheric black metal and black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2023, they deal in frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Practitioners of death metal, this Swedish outfit from Umeå has been refining their craft since 2010. Their sound hinges on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end, delivered with absolute focus.
Black metal and folk metal project from Casserres in Catalonia, Spain, launched in 2023. Their releases include the demo Entre Foscors and Fredes Nits d'Hivern, performed in Catalan.
Death, doom, and sludge metal act from Barcelona, Spain formed in 2025. They deliver crushing, slow-burning extremity from the Catalan capital's underground.
Black metal project from Sarreinsming in Moselle, France active since 2009. They channel dark energy from the Franco-German borderlands.
Drawing from Malmö's musical fabric, this Swedish act forges Thrash Metal built on circle-pit anthems driven by relentless double-kick propulsion. Speed and precision collide in pit-ready anthems.
Black/doom metal band from Portugal launched in 2025. Their sound merges black metal's cold hostility with doom metal's crushing weight.
Black metal project from Claix in the French Alps, launched in 2023. They bring atmospheric black metal from the mountainous southeast.
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