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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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Operating from Cherkasy, this black metal project has been shaping crushing sound since 2021. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
A savage atmospheric black/doom metal entity from Hungary, active since 2017. Cold atmospheres and venomous vocals define their particular approach to the genre.
Melodic death metal outfit from the small town of Säkylä in Satakunta, active since 2013. Their mortar-themed name matches explosive compositions blending Finnish melodic death traditions with aggressive precision.
Black metal project from southwest Germany, formed in 2024. Their approach channels raw black metal through the atmospheric traditions of the German underground.
Hapless Wretch is a blackened death metal band from London, England, formed in 2021. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Frigid Depressive Black Metal from Sarasota, Florida (early); San Antonio, Texas / France (later).
Depressive black metal project from Bremen, Germany, with origins tracing back to 1983 - making them one of the oldest extreme metal acts in the country. Their ironically named project delivers decades of sorrowful, emotionally devastating black metal.
Black metal/ambient project from Germany, formed in 2020. Their atmospheric fusion blurs the line between black metal aggression and ambient tranquility, creating darkly contemplative sonic spaces.
Haprefleur is a black metal project from Dordogne, France, active since 2024 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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