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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 band from Riga, Latvia, formed in 2024, whose name means 'readily changing shape.' They bring freshly forged, shape-shifting black metal to the Baltic underground.
Austrian raw black metal project that emerged in 2024 with their debut release Satanic Shockwave, six tracks of straightforward satanic black metal composed and recorded during autumn 2023. Their limited-edition CD-R run of 30 hand-numbered copies sold out quickly.
Blackened grindcore and crust band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2012, named after the opium alkaloid protopine. Over a decade of chemical-fueled extremity from the Russian capital.
Post-black metal and post-punk band from Tomsk, Russia, formed in 2023, combining post-black metal atmospheres with post-punk aesthetics. They bring provocative hybrid music from western Siberia.
A 2025 death-thrash project from the Hessian town of Grünberg, Profet channels prophetic fury through riff-driven compositions. Their fresh arrival on the scene brings new energy to the central German extreme metal underground.
Manlleu's Pánico al Miedo — 'Panic at Fear' in Spanish — has been dealing death-thrash since 2018 from the Osona valley of central Catalonia. Their paradoxical name captures the genre's love of extremity, turning fear itself into something to be feared.
Death and black metal band from Istanbul, Turkey, active since 2008, delivering over seventeen years of extreme metal from the transcontinental city. They are veterans of the Turkish underground.
Black metal band from Sobienie-Jeziory, Poland, formed in 2017, whose name means 'primitive' in Polish. They deliver raw, stripped-down black metal true to their primal name.
Black metal band from Wroclaw, Poland, formed in 2026, whose name means 'predawn' in Polish. They represent the absolute newest wave of Polish black metal from the Lower Silesian capital.
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