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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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Experimental black metal band from Dijon, France active since 2005. They push black metal's boundaries with avant-garde experimentation from the heart of Burgundy.
Blackened death metal act from Thuringia, Germany, forging a fusion of black and death metal's most aggressive elements since 2022. Their ecclesiastical name hints at a thematic engagement with religious and spiritual darkness.
Depressive black metal project from Athens, Greece launched in 2026. They explore bleak atmospheres from the Greek capital.
Norfolk's Eclipsus work the depressive and atmospheric strains of black metal, a project formed in 2021 that finds its character in bleak, suffocating soundscapes from the Virginia coast.
Atmospheric black metal project from Paris, France launched in 2018. They craft layered, immersive black metal soundscapes from the French capital.
Black, death, doom, and gothic metal band from Potenza, Italy active since 2007. They deliver a rich, multi-genre extreme metal sound from the Basilicata region.
Death/doom/black metal act from Rivas-Vaciamadrid near Madrid, Spain, weaving together three of extreme metal's darkest threads since 2007. Their skin-condition name captures the raw, uncomfortable intensity of their genre-crossing extremity.
Black metal act from Barcelona, Spain, channeling dark, atmospheric extremity since 2014. Their name merges paradise and emperor, reflecting an imperious approach to black metal from Catalonia's capital.
Depressive black metal project from Finland that launched in 2024. They explore bleak, melancholic black metal atmospheres from the Finnish underground.
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