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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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German atmospheric black/death metal and deathcore band from Nuremberg, formed in 2021. They fuse atmospheric extremity with deathcore's crushing breakdowns for a layered, intense sound.
Black Lord is a black metal band from Zacatecas, Mexico, founded in 2010 as a one-man project by Marko Garcia before expanding into a full band by 2014. The group has released two full-lengths — Black Ritual Forest (2015) and Ritual Under the Fullmoon (2018) — along with splits and a demo, exploring themes of Satanism, occultism, and pagan ritual. Black Lord is one of the few active black metal acts from the Zacatecas underground.
Black metal and punk project from Belgium, formed in 2026. A brand-new act fusing the rawness of black metal with punk's rebellious energy.
Leikanger-based speed/thrash metal outfit active since 2014, channeling the breakneck velocity of early speed metal through a modern thrash lens. Their riff-first approach delivers the kind of neck-wrecking momentum that defined the genre's golden age.
Szczecin-based death metal act active since 2018, 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.
Gothenburg-based black/thrash metal outfit active since 2013, fusing black metal's atmospheric venom with thrash's riff-driven velocity. Their high-energy sound channels the raw spirit of early Bathory, Sodom, and Destruction.
Trondheim-based black metal and ambient project active since 2010, dissolving the boundaries between extreme metal and dark electronic soundscaping. Their work oscillates between passages of black metal fury and extended ambient meditations.
French thrash/black metal band from Toulouse, formed in 2014. They merge thrash metal's aggression with black metal's darkness from the Occitan capital.
Cold, unrelenting black metal from Budapest / Zalaegerszeg, active since 2014. Their sound embodies the genre's core principles: razor-sharp tremolo picking, furious drumming, and an atmosphere thick with hostility and darkness.
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