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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Wild Child (2023)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Hailing from Ålesund in Norway, this black metal outfit channels aggressive energy since 2025. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Raw black metal project from Belgium, steadily building a body of work across four numbered demos since their formation in 2019. Each release strips the genre down to its most primal elements, favoring unpolished aggression over studio refinement.
Emerging from Kristinehamn's underground, this death/thrash metal act has been forging raw sonic fury since 2024. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
Hailing from Belgrade in Serbia, this folk/power metal outfit channels aggressive energy since 2023. Twin-guitar harmonies and commanding vocals characterize their sound.
Haundead is a metalcore/melodic death/groove metal band from Lyon, France, active since 2018 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
An uncompromising melodic death metal project from Trondheim, active since 2018. Their sound channels the genre's most crushing impulses through thunderous riffs.
Death metal band from Augsburg, Germany, formed in 2018. Their horror-themed approach channels the genre's most gruesome traditions from the historic Bavarian city.
Haunted Cenotaph is a death/doom metal band from Rzeszów, Poland, formed in 2018. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Haunted Crucifix is a stoner/doom metal band from Volos, Greece, active since 2021 and delivering crushing, fuzz-laden heaviness where doom's oppressive weight meets stoner metal's hazy grooves. The project channels low-end power and psychedelic atmosphere.
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