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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Black metal project from Piraeus, Greece active since 2016. They deliver dark black metal from the Athenian port city.
Verona, Italy — black metal, speed metal, and thrash metal of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2013, they deal in pre-thrash intensity with a melodic edge. The combination of influences yields something more interesting than any single genre label implies.
Death/black metal band from the Black Sea port city of Burgas, Bulgaria, merging two of extreme metal's most ferocious subgenres since 2012. Their coastal origins add a distinctive edge to their blend of death and black metal fury.
Black/death metal act from Velez-Malaga on the Costa del Sol, Spain, active since 2012. They channel extreme metal darkness from the sun-drenched Andalusian coast.
Black/death metal project from Artemare in the Ain department of France, launched in 2025. They bring fresh extreme metal from the rural Rhone-Alpes foothills.
When ExHydra emerged in 2020 from Trondheim, they brought with them a sound rooted in black metal — all raw, lo-fi aggression channeled through kvlt aesthetics. Lo-fi authenticity lends their recordings a genuinely oppressive character.
Black/death metal band from Glasgow, Scotland active since 2012. They deliver fierce extreme metal from Scotland.
Black, death, and thrash metal band from Madrid, Spain formed in 2017. They unleash a triple-headed assault of extreme metal subgenres from the Spanish capital.
Black/death metal project from Volos, Greece formed in 2021. They bring extreme metal darkness from the Thessalian coast.
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