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Berlin-based black metal project founded in 2002 by Bane, crafting haunting melodies and evocative riffs that draw listeners into their enigmatic world of Tendalied. Their recent output includes The Fourfold Descent and Shadows Of The Eclipse, both released in 2025, mixed and mastered by Kolbisurround Studios.
Ungraced is a black/death metal project from Stockholm, Sweden, forging extreme metal with a blackened edge since 2022. The project operates within Stockholm's deep well of death and black metal tradition.
Death and groove metal band from the remote Norwegian town of Hoyanger, active since 2019. Their sound combines death metal's aggression with groove metal's rhythmic power from the depths of the Sognefjord.
Ungraved is a melodic death metal band from Novosibirsk, Russia, active since 2006 with releases including the Nova VVorld and A Life Elder. The project represents one of Siberia's longest-running melodic death metal acts.
Drone and doom metal band from Liverpool, England, evolving from earlier sludge-doom toward a more drone-focused approach since 2018. Their sonic evolution reflects a deepening commitment to the slowest, heaviest extremes of metal.
Raw black metal and punk crossover project from the UK, active since 2007, blending black metal's atmospheric darkness with punk's DIY ethos. Their nearly two-decade history marks them as veterans of the British extreme metal underground.
Ungula is a sludge/doom metal band from Yekaterinburg, Russia, built on an unconventional foundation of two distorted basses and mad synths played by their six-member collective. The project's experimental approach to sludge and doom sets them apart from the traditional guitar-driven template.
Death metal and metalcore hybrid from Graz, Austria, active since 2011 across the Deutschlandsberg, Stainz, and Graz region. Their catalog includes the releases Failed Utopia, Eternal, and No Gods No Heroes, merging crushing death metal heaviness with hardcore intensity.
Unhallow is a Stockholm-based melodic death metal band featuring Robert Senneback of Dismember and Joakim Sterner of Necrophobic, creating atmospheric, somber, and dark doom-inflected death metal. Their 2022 demo Daemonum offers two tracks from a planned ten-song output, described as filling a gap left by influential Swedish bands of decades past.
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