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Featured Album
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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San Antonio black/death metal band formed in 2025, a newly emerged Texas act fusing the corrosive rawness of black metal with death metal ferocity.
Black metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2019. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from the Catalan capital.
One-person symphonic post-black metal project from Bangor, Maine, active since 2018, layering orchestral ambition over atmospheric black metal foundations.
Long-running black metal project rooted in Lynchburg, Virginia before relocating to Cheyenne, Wyoming, dealing in death, disease, and perversion across a career spanning from 2003.
Black metal band from the Toulon area, France, formed in 2020. They craft atmospheric black metal from the Var coast of Provence.
Black metal band from London, formed in 2016. They deliver intense, raw black metal from the English capital.
Black metal project from Frankfurt, Germany, formed in 2018. They deliver cold, atmospheric black metal shaped by darkness and urban isolation.
One-man black metal project from Kalken in Flanders, Belgium, active since 2016. The project delivers fast and nasty black metal infused with an atmosphere of nostalgia and folklore, with lyrics in Flemish Dutch drawing on local traditions.
Dutch black metal project from Alphen aan den Rijn, formed in 2015. Calslagen channels raw, atmospheric black metal from the South Holland lowlands.
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