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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Black metal act from Jönköping, active since 2007. Cursed 13 has spent nearly two decades crafting raw black metal from the Småland highlands.
Seattle atmospheric black metal project conjuring vast, frost-bitten soundscapes layered with cold tremolo riffs and haunting ambience. Cursed Amulet channels the Pacific Northwest's brooding atmosphere into expansive black metal ritualism.
Raw Raw Black Metal out of Texas.
Timisoara act that evolved from death/black metal origins into a more experimental blend of black metal, ambient, and downtempo, reflecting a dramatic creative transformation since 2007. Their stylistic journey from extreme metal to atmospheric introspection traces an unusually broad artistic arc.
Blackened melodic death metal act from Skierniewice in central Poland, formed in 2025. Cursed Darkness merges melodic hooks with extreme metal ferocity.
Boston blackened death metal band forging a cold and brutal sound that bridges extreme metal's most punishing subgenres. Cursed for Eternity channels New England's underground intensity into riff-heavy, atmosphere-laced darkness.
Depressive black metal project from Ankara, formed in 2021. Cursed in Eternity channels bleak despair through atmospheric black metal from the Turkish capital.
Black metal project from Heraklion, Crete, formed in 2021. Cursed Within channels the isolation of the Mediterranean island into frigid, atmospheric black metal.
One-man experimental post-black metal project from Innsbruck, Austria, described as coming 'from the Alps.' Their releases 'Kreislauf der Verdammnis' and 'Parasites of the Universe' blend DSBM, melodic black metal, and blackgaze into deeply personal, atmospheric extremity.
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