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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Black metal band from Basel, Switzerland, active since 2012. They craft dark, intense black metal drawn from the genre's atmospheric and aggressive traditions.
Black metal project from Kadıköy on Istanbul's Asian side, active since 2015. Crawling channels atmospheric black metal from the crossroads of Europe and Asia.
Pennsylvania raw black metal project steeped in lo-fi corrosion and stripped-to-bone harshness. Creak operates in the most unmediated register of the genre, where atmosphere is built through decay.
Orange County crossover thrash act channeling the reckless energy that defined the California hardcore-meets-metal scene. Creatures keep the pit-starting spirit of classic crossover alive with fast, aggressive songs.
Avant-garde progressive black metal band from Brittany, France, formed in 2018. They push black metal boundaries through experimental and progressive approaches.
San Francisco black metal act drawing its name from Tolkien's dark crow spies and its sound from cold, hateful tradition. Crebain operates in the grim, atmospheric end of American black metal with conviction.
Black metal project from Moscow, formed in 2018. Credimus — Latin for 'we believe' — channels atmospheric black metal from the Russian capital.
Fort Wayne, Indiana groove metal act built on mid-tempo pound and the kind of riff-first mentality that made the Midwest a reliable source of heavy music. Creep delivers blunt, knuckle-dragging heaviness.
Black metal project from Alta in Finnmark, far northern Norway, formed in 2017. Creep Colony crafts black metal from within the Arctic Circle, one of Norway's most remote metal outposts.
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