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Featured Album
ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
All Hell's Breaking Loose Down at Little Kathy Wilson's Place - Remastered (2025)
05/24 @ The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Heol Telwen is a celtic folk/black metal band from Blanc Mesnil, France, active since 2005 and weaving traditional folk elements into extreme metal frameworks. The project bridges ancient heritage with the ferocity of modern metal.
Heonia is a symphonic/progressive metal band from Lille, France, formed in 2010. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Operating from Mäntyharju, this viking/folk metal project has been shaping cold sound since 2020. Their sound delivers the intensity their genre demands with focused execution.
Emerging from Žilina's underground, this heavy metal act has been forging scorching sonic fury since 2018. Anthemic choruses and driving rhythms characterize their particular brand of metal.
Heparin is a groove/thrash/death metal band from Poznań, Poland, formed in 2023. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Blackened death metal act from Rennes in Brittany, active since 2023. Their Troma horror-inspired name signals a visceral approach to extreme metal from France's northwestern underground.
Black metal band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2022. Named after the seven-pointed occult symbol, they forge ritualistic black metal from the Rhineland-Palatinate capital.
Rising from Thessaloniki in Greece, this black metal outfit harnesses volatile power since 2016. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Sludge/doom metal band from Roeselare, Belgium, formed in 2021. Their crushing low-end and oppressive atmosphere draw from the heaviest traditions of sludge and doom, delivering punishment from the West Flemish underground.
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