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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Subotica-based melodic black metal project active since 2024, tempering raw aggression with sweeping arrangements and harmonized guitar leads. Their approach balances the genre's inherent hostility with moments of dark grandeur.
Spanish black metal band from Barcelona, formed in 2019. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from Catalonia's vibrant underground.
Pavlohrad-based black metal and ambient project active since 2013, dissolving the boundaries between extreme metal and dark electronic soundscaping. Their work oscillates between passages of black metal fury and extended ambient meditations.
Atmospheric black metal entity from Ukraine, formed in 2018. Their sound envelops the listener in walls of reverb-drenched tremolo picking and shimmering ambient passages that dissolve the boundary between beauty and ferocity.
Black metal act from Canon City, Colorado, operating in the American underground since 2005.
Forged in 2012 from Rijeka, this black metal entity delivers uncompromising extremity built on icy tremolo riffs and relentless percussion. Their work carries the cold, misanthropic spirit that defines the genre's most devoted practitioners.
Spanish black metal band from Soutomaior in Galicia, formed in 2018. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the misty forests of northwestern Spain.
American black metal band active from 1999 until their split-up, named after the legendary sword of the hero Sigurd in Norse and Germanic mythology.
German black metal and ambient project from Stralsund, formed in 2008. They pair raw black metal with ambient textures, creating an atmospheric sound from the Baltic coast.
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