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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Boston doom outfit Concilium drag listeners through cavernous, slow-motion heaviness, using dense, distorted walls of sound and oppressive tempos to evoke dread and resignation.
Symphonic blackened death metal act from the Ljubljana and Radomlje area, active since 2011. Condemnatio Cristi delivers multi-layered extreme metal from central Slovenia.
Symphonic blackened death-doom act from Moscow, active since 2004. Condemned Cell has spent two decades crafting dark, multi-layered extreme metal from the Russian capital.
War metal in the vein of Havohej, Demoncy, and Beherit. Briefly split in 2016 before reuniting in 2018 with renewed ferocity.
Black metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2017. They channel dark, condemned atmospheres through raw black metal from the Catalan capital.
Somerville, Massachusetts black metal act channeling cold, dissonant fury through the grim New England underground. Their music embraces raw production values and unrelenting hostility.
Raw black metal band from France, formed in 2016. They deliver lo-fi, primitive black metal stripped to its most abrasive essence.
Black-death metal band from Narva, Estonia, formed in 2015. They channel extreme metal darkness from the Estonian-Russian border city.
Kolbotn thrash/black metal outfit and proud member of the Kolbotn Thrashers Union alongside Darkthrone and Nekromantheon, delivering lethal fury across albums like 'Unstoppable Power.' Their blackened take on Slayer and Dark Angel-style thrash has set a standard for the style within Norway's tight-knit extreme metal community.
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