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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Black-death-doom metal band from Scotland, emerging in 2026. They blend three extreme metal genres into a dark, wounding assault.
Seattle's Cult of Yog conjure Lovecraftian dread through venomous, bestial black/death metal rooted in the Pacific Northwest's tradition of cavernous, atmospheric extremity. Their self-titled 2021 EP announced a band channeling the darkness of Cascadia into riff-heavy, cosmically hostile metal.
Gothic industrial black metal act from Katowice, active since 2014. Cult ov Mora blends dark electronic textures with black metal and gothic atmospherics from the Silesian capital.
Black metal project from Östergötland, formed in 2022. Cultellus — Latin for 'small knife' — channels raw black metal from central Sweden.
Black metal band from Kielce in central Poland, active since 2011. Cultes des Ghoules has earned international acclaim for their ritualistic, occult-driven black metal steeped in ceremonial darkness.
Industrial black metal band from Langerringen near Augsburg, Germany, active since 2008. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with industrial metal's mechanized aggression.
Black-thrash metal band from Farnborough, England, active since 2011. They deliver ferocious, riff-driven black-thrash from Hampshire.
Culto a la Malevolencia is a death/black metal band from Arica, Chile, formed in the late 2010s and active with blasphemous and anti-Christian lyrical themes. Their debut EP "In Nomine Capra," released in January 2019, draws conceptual inspiration from the Cueva de Salamanca, a Chilean site historically associated with witchcraft.
Folk-infused black metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2007. They blend folk elements with occult black metal from Greece's second-largest city.
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