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ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
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All Hell's Breaking Loose Down at Little Kathy Wilson's Place - Remastered (2025)
05/24 @ The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
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Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Shaddai have been practicing black metal from Montreux since 1999, making them one of the longer-running acts in the Swiss black metal underground. Their decades of activity have produced a body of work steeped in darkness and the cold tradition of European black metal.
Umea's Shade of Black practice black metal from the northern Swedish university city since 2011. Over a decade from the Vasterbotten capital, their tonal-darkness name has shaped atmospheric compositions.
Umea's Shade of Grey explore progressive melodic heavy metal from the northern university city since 2011. Their morally ambiguous name channels the complexity between absolutes into compositions of technical sophistication.
Shade of Sorrow craft melodic death metal from the Finnish underground, channeling grief-stricken melodies through extreme compositions. Formed in 2024, they bring shadow-dwelling sorrow to the Finnish melodeath landscape.
Shadecrown deliver melodic death/doom metal from the central Finnish town of Viitasaari, combining Scandinavian melodeath with the crushing weight of doom. Active since 2013, they bring lakeland melancholy to the Finnish extreme scene.
Falun's Shades play heavy metal from the Dalarna capital since 2015. Their shadows-plural name and copper-mining heritage origins channel the darkness of underground tunnels into traditional metal compositions.
Shades of Deep Water have been crafting funeral doom metal from Jyvaskyla since 2007, building glacially paced compositions that evoke the depths of Finland's countless lakes. Their nearly two decades of aquatic doom represent one of the scene's more evocative projects.
Shades of Extinction practice black metal from an undisclosed Slovak location since 2023. Their name of varied dying-out channels the multiple colors of annihilation into compositions of anonymous atmospheric darkness.
Shades of God combine death, thrash, and stoner metal from Munich, drawing their name from a Paradise Lost album and channeling a similar eclecticism. Their triple-genre Bavarian approach refuses to settle into any single mode of heaviness.
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