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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)
05/22 @ Yuengling Center, Tampa
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Black/death metal act from the Hohenlohe region of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, delivering savage extremity since 2009. Their ice-themed name reflects the cold, unforgiving character of their fusion of black and death metal.
Gothic metal act from Bochum in Germany's Ruhr industrial heartland, crafting dark, atmospheric compositions since 2001. Their name, meaning "ice holy" in German, evokes the frozen, sacred quality of their gothic metal approach across more than two decades of activity.
Raw pagan black metal band from the Moscow/Tver corridor, active since 2011. Their German name — meaning "ice forest" — and pagan thematic focus channel Slavic mysticism through raw black metal.
Melodic heavy/gothic metal act from Bochum, Germany, blending soaring melodies with dark gothic atmospheres since 2022. Their name, meaning "ice crystal" in German, captures the crystalline beauty and cold elegance of their sound.
Experimental black metal project from Celle in Lower Saxony, Germany, pushing the boundaries of the genre since 2014. Their approach takes black metal into uncharted territory through unconventional structures and avant-garde sonic exploration.
Black metal project from Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in northeastern Germany, channeling the cold, fog-shrouded atmosphere of the Baltic coast since 2009. Their name, meaning "ice fog," perfectly encapsulates the frostbitten, spectral character of their black metal.
Gothic/black/death metal act from the Thuringian Forest towns of Tambach-Dietharz and Bad Tabarz, Germany, merging multiple extreme and dark metal styles since 2022. Their name, meaning "ice rain," evokes the harsh, unforgiving weather of their central German mountain home.
Borlänge, Sweden — heavy metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2024, they deal in NWOBHM-rooted riffing with timeless melodic hooks. Twin-guitar interplay and vocal power form the backbone of their sound.
Experimental pagan metal project from Schlagenhofen, Germany, pushing the boundaries of folk-infused metal since 2011. Their name, meaning "ice work" in German, reflects a crafted, deliberate approach to fusing pagan themes with experimental metal.
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