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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Finnish black metal project active since 2010, delivering over a decade of atmospheric compositions. Their Finnish-language identity roots them firmly in the domestic black metal tradition.
Progressive death/black metal project from Graz formed in 2023, debuting with the release From Ashes to Ecstasy. Their approach merges the technical complexity of progressive metal with the aggression of extreme metal.
Atmospheric black metal project from England, active since 2014 and crafting immersive, texture-rich black metal that prioritizes mood and atmosphere over raw aggression. The project builds expansive sonic landscapes from tremolo guitars and layered ambient elements.
Munich post-black/sludge metal band formed in 2010, merging the atmospheric expansiveness of post-black metal with sludge's crushing weight. Their evolution over more than a decade has seen them become a fixture of the Bavarian extreme metal underground.
Black/death metal band from Hamburg, formed in 2019 and channeling royal menace through savage extreme metal aggression. Their sound pairs black metal's cold fury with death metal's guttural power.
Part of Poland's relentlessly productive underground, this act channels black metal with a focus on tremolo-picked fury and blast-beat savagery. Formed in 2015, based in Warsaw, raw production values serve the music's unvarnished intensity.
Black metal band from the remote town of Ranua in Finnish Lapland, active since 2002 and channeling over two decades of Arctic darkness. Their isolation in the far north infuses their black metal with genuine desolation and cold.
When Kingdom of Angmar emerged in 2023 out of Hungary, they brought with them a sound rooted in atmospheric black metal and black metal — all frigid atmospherics and razor-wire guitar tone. Blast beats and shrieked vocals create an impenetrable wall of darkness.
Black/thrash metal band from Thuringia in central Germany, formed in 2018 and channeling dark, violent energy through blackened thrash ferocity. Their name and sound evoke brutal medieval imagery.
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