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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Epic and melodic black metal band from Lulec, Czech Republic, formed in 2021, releasing their debut album Poupe through Slovak Metal Army and Immortal Souls Productions. Their eight-track record features compositions ranging from atmospheric passages to fierce black metal in the Czech language.
Black metal band from Turzovka, Slovakia, formed in 2014, delivering over a decade of sinful black metal from the Kysuce region. They bring dark intensity to the Slovak underground.
Berlin's Phosphor has been illuminating the progressive death metal landscape since 2012, their name suggesting the element that brings light from darkness. Their compositions balance death metal's visceral impact with progressive structures that reward repeated listening.
A 2023 melodic death metal project out of Fribourg, Plague Incarnate draws from the Scandinavian melodeath playbook — interlocking guitar harmonies, blast-to-groove dynamics, and cathartic melodic breaks. Their bilingual French-German Swiss setting adds a unique cultural dimension to their sound.
Black metal band from Ukraine, formed in 2021, whose name means 'hell' in Ukrainian. They channel infernal fury through raw black metal.
Atmospheric black metal band from Faro, Portugal, formed in 2024, named after the English hill associated with the Lancashire witch trials. They bring occult atmospheric black metal from the southernmost reaches of Portugal.
Raw black metal project from Italy, formed in 2024, combining irreverent provocation with raw black metal extremity. Their deliberately crude name signals an uncompromising approach to underground black metal.
Black and death metal band from Kranj, Slovenia, formed in 2014, named after the Latin cry for repentance. Over a decade of extreme metal penance from the Alpine city.
Taking their name from Victorian horror literature, Penny Dreadful fuses black metal's frozen menace with the suffocating weight of doom, conjuring an atmosphere as grim as it is hypnotic.
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