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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/death metal project with roots in Tel Aviv and based in Germany, active since 2012. Their international perspective brings a unique cultural dimension to their ferocious black/death metal assault.
Black metal project from Neef, Germany, formed in 2022. Their Satanic-themed sound channels occult black metal from the rural Mosel valley, an unlikely but evocative setting for darkness.
Arizona's Harad emerged in 2022 with melodic black metal that feels both epic and austere, channeling the desert state's vast, sunburned landscape into something cold and expansive.
Black Metal/Crust force from Piteå/Umeå, searing and relentless since 2022. Rooted in orthodox black metal, their work channels darkness with unwavering conviction.
Epic doom metal project from Bradford in West Yorkshire, active since 2018. Their monolithic name matches towering, ritualistic doom compositions that channel crushing weight and dark grandeur.
Emerging from Budapest's underground, this black metal act has been forging furious sonic fury since 2021. Cold atmospheres and venomous vocals define their particular approach to the genre.
Viennese post-black metal duo formed in 2011 by vocalist JJ and multi-instrumentalist Matthias Sollak, signed to AOP Records. Their expansive albums including Aokigahara, III: Trauma, and Arson weave together black metal intensity with post-rock and shoegaze textures across sweeping eight-to-ten-minute compositions.
Los Angeles' Harassor weld black metal misanthropy to hardcore punk fury, a confrontational and abrasive act since 2010 whose music sounds like it was recorded in a burning building on purpose.
Denver's Harboured emerged in 2020 weaving atmospheric black metal into post-metal expansiveness, their sound as high and cold as the Rocky Mountain backdrop that defines the city they call home.
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