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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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Decidedly heavy and deliberately confrontational, this black metal act from Saint Petersburg traffics in tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Since 2019, they've built a catalog that reflects Russia's sprawling, uncompromising metal landscape.
Black metal and symphonic metal project from France launched in 2023. They merge the grandeur of symphonic arrangements with black metal intensity.
Formed in 2021, this Östergötland Black Metal outfit delivers icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Their place within the Gothenburg school's homeland speaks to the depth of the region's heavy music culture.
Atmospheric black metal project from Prague, Czech Republic, crafting immersive, textured soundscapes since 2019. Their evocative name hints at the haunting, otherworldly quality of their atmospheric black metal compositions.
Black metal project from Athens, Greece formed in 2022. They channel eerie darkness from the ancient Greek capital.
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Potenza, Italy — black metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2017, they deal in frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Voronezh-based black metal and doom metal act, active since 2008 delivering venomous shrieks over walls of distortion. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, the compositions unfold with ritualistic patience and venomous intent.
Named for the treacherous figure of Welsh mythology, Phoenix's Efnisien channels pure black metal menace since 2020, standing apart in the Arizona desert with a name that reaches back to ancient darkness.
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