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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Death metal outfit from Košice, formed in 2007. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
Spanish folk/black metal band from Ondarroa in the Basque Country, formed in 2022. They weave Basque folk elements into a black metal framework, singing in Euskara.
Black metal project from Wrocław, emerging in 2025. Their compositions draw from the wellspring of second-wave Scandinavian tradition while filtering it through the cultural context of their Polish origins.
German black metal band formed in 2016. They deliver raw, bestial black metal with a primal intensity.
Kraków-based experimental black/death metal entity formed in 2017, channeling Slavic folklore and demonic mythology through dissonant, avant-garde extremity. Their unorthodox approach to extreme metal draws from Poland's rich tradition of boundary-pushing black metal.
Czech black metal act from Brno, formed in 2015, whose sound has transitioned from black metal origins toward a doom metal and doom rock direction. Their evolution reflects a restless creative spirit within Brno's underground scene.
German black/death metal band from Dresden, formed in 2024. They forge iconoclastic black/death metal from Saxony's capital city.
German black metal band from Malchin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, active since 2002. With over two decades of history, they are one of the more established black metal acts from Germany's sparsely populated northeast.
Spanish black metal band from Cantabria, formed in 2023. They channel blighted black metal from the mountainous northern coast.
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