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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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Black metal project from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, active since 2019. Their releases "Ocean's Exquisite Mist" and "Absence of Beauty Brings Void and Ugliness Into the Heart" signal a poetic, atmospheric approach to Bosnian black metal.
French black metal band from Bordeaux, formed in 2016. They deliver stormy black metal from the Gironde region.
Haugesund-based doom metal act active since 2013, crafting monolithic compositions built on slow-burning riffs and an atmosphere of pervasive heaviness. Their patient approach to songwriting lets each chord ring with crushing finality.
Black metal act from the Ticino region of Switzerland, active since 2011. They channel the cold darkness of black metal from southern Switzerland.
Death, black, and progressive metal band from East Flanders, Belgium, active since 2017. They explore the intersection of extreme metal ferocity and progressive compositional ambition.
Czech black metal band from Benešov, founded in 1987, making them one of the longest-running black metal acts in the Czech Republic. Their decades-spanning career represents a foundational piece of Czech extreme metal history.
German black metal band from Köthen in Saxony-Anhalt, active since 2008. They deliver tormented black metal from the eastern German heartland.
German experimental black metal project from Oldenburg, active since 1996. With nearly three decades of boundary-pushing output, they are one of northern Germany's most long-standing experimental metal acts.
Thessaloniki-based black metal act active since 2002, channeling the genre's core tenets of tremolo-driven riffing and blast-beat fury through a Greek lens. Their recordings maintain a commitment to the raw, unvarnished aesthetic that defines underground black metal.
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