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ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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HerPoisonedVeil is a various act from Italy, active since 2018 and channeling aggressive, heavy music through its uncompromising artistic vision. The project delivers powerful metal from the Italy scene.
Black Metal project from Finland, forging punishing compositions since 2017. Their compositions evoke desolate landscapes through raw, uncompromising aggression.
Heavy metal band from Varna, Bulgaria, on the Black Sea coast. Their sound channels the classic traditions of European heavy metal with powerful riffs and commanding vocals, including the live recording Live 2020.
Black Metal outfit rooted in Besançon, channeling scorching underground intensity. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Operating from Paris, this electronic industrial metal project has been shaping raw sound since 2006. Tight compositions and aggressive delivery characterize their particular approach.
Black metal project from Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, active since 2010. Their cold, domineering sound channels atmospheric black metal from the northernmost reaches of Germany.
Thrash/heavy metal band from Valencia, Spain, active since 1994. Three decades of thunderous thrash and heavy metal make them one of the longest-running metal acts in the Valencian Community.
Based in Clermont-Ferrand, this sludge/drone/doom metal project has been a fixture of France's underground since 2010. Massive, slow-building riffs and cavernous atmospheres define their doom approach.
Death metal outfit from Lille in northern France, active since 2023. Their sound channels the industrial grit of France's Flemish-influenced northern metropolis into crushing death metal.
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