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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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German black/doom metal band from the Berchtesgadener Land in the Bavarian Alps, formed in 2019. They craft somber black/doom metal inspired by the dark alpine forests of their mountainous homeland.
Danish black metal band from Copenhagen, formed in 2018. They channel funereal black metal from the Danish capital.
Novocherkassk-based raw black metal project active since 2009, burying its compositions beneath layers of caustic distortion and lo-fi haze. Their uncompromising approach to production channels the most primitive currents of the second wave.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Gällivare, active since 2025. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
Atmospheric black metal entity from Athens, formed in 1994. Their sound envelops the listener in walls of reverb-drenched tremolo picking and shimmering ambient passages that dissolve the boundary between beauty and ferocity.
Finnish brutal death/black metal band from Saarijärvi, formed in 2023. They deliver burial-mound-dwelling extreme metal from central Finland.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Prato, active since 2026. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
German black/death metal and crust band from Nordhausen in Thuringia, formed in 2017. They fuse extreme metal with crust punk's raw energy from the southern Harz region.
German black/death metal band from Cham in the Upper Palatinate, formed in 2020. They forge shadow-burnt black/death metal from the Bavarian Forest.
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