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The Fear (2022)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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German black metal band from Niederwerrn, formed in 2019, with a discography including De Vermis Mysteriis, Catacomb Cult, and Devoted to HIM. Their occult-themed black metal draws from dark mysticism and ancient evil.
French black metal band from Sept-Saints in Brittany, formed in 2022. They channel demonic black metal from the Celtic heartland of Brittany.
German progressive black/death metal band formed in 2016. They push extreme metal boundaries through progressive structures woven into a black and death metal foundation.
German black metal band from Stuttgart, formed in 2019. They deliver dark, punishing black metal from the capital of Baden-Württemberg.
Porto-based black metal act active since 2013, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Portuguese lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
Hønefoss black metal act steeped in the second-wave Norwegian tradition, delivering raw, satanic black metal with an uncompromising devotion to the genre's original aesthetic. Their work channels the spirit of early 1990s Scandinavian darkness.
Stockholm-based death metal act active since 2023, trafficking in the genre's essential currency of guttural vocals, down-tuned riffs, and relentless percussive punishment. Their compositions deliver uncompromising heaviness rooted in the old-school tradition.
Black/thrash metal act from Stockholm, formed in 2013. Their compositions hurtle forward at breakneck tempos, driven by the marriage of thrash's precision riffing and black metal's hostile atmosphere.
Spanish black/death metal band from León, formed in 2020. They forge bestial black/death metal from the historic city of northwestern Spain.
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