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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
Featured Power Metal Album
Extreme Power Metal (2019)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
rosemary (2023)
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Black metal band from the Limburg towns of Panningen and Helden, active since 1997. Cirith Gorgor — named after a Tolkien fortress — is one of the Netherlands' longest-running and most respected black metal acts.
Black metal band from Bad Oldesloe in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, formed in 2019. Named after a fortress in Tolkien's Mordor, they channel dark fantasy themes through raw black metal.
Stockholm melodic black/heavy metal act formed in 2020, blending the atmospheric intensity of black metal with heavy metal's melodic power. Their cross-genre approach creates a sound both dark and anthemic.
Raw black metal project from Carinthia, Austria, active since 2009. They strip black metal down to its most primal elements, delivering lo-fi ferocity in the tradition of the rawest underground.
Atmospheric black metal band from Devon, England, formed in 2021. They craft vast, nature-inspired black metal from the English West Country.
Black metal project from Warsaw, active since 2017. Cisza — Polish for 'silence' — channels paradoxically fierce black metal from the Polish capital.
German black-death metal act, one of the country's earliest extreme metal projects with roots dating to 1984. Their pioneering presence helped shape the German extreme metal landscape.
Columbus experimental black/thrash act Citranomicon approach genre boundaries as suggestions, welding cold tremolo-picked fury to unconventional structures and a genuinely strange sonic imagination. They resist easy categorization.
Los Angeles death doom act Civerous conjure suffocating, subterranean darkness at the intersection of black, death, and doom metal, building cavernous soundscapes of genuine dread. Their Maze of Sorrow EP and Decrepit Flesh Relic debut mark them as one of the more compelling voices in contemporary underground death.
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