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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Black metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2013, creating intense and atmospheric black metal from the Franco-German border region. They have earned acclaim in the French black metal underground for their ambitious compositions.
Raw black metal band from Sweden, formed in 2023, delivering paranoid, unpolished black metal. They bring anxious extremity to the Swedish underground.
Vienna-based extreme metal outfit blending black metal with punk energy, active in the Central European underground since 2019. They have released several recordings including the LP Privilege and a split with Berosszulás through Into Endless Chaos Records.
Parasiticide wage total sonic war across black metal, death metal, and grindcore, letting the three styles collide without quarter. Formed in 2020, the band's location-free status suggests a project more concerned with extremity than geography.
Black metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2014, channeling raw black metal fury from the West Country. They are part of Bristol's thriving extreme metal community.
Experimental black metal project from Germany, active since 1999, pushing the boundaries of black metal with avant-garde and experimental elements. Their long career speaks to a dedication to unconventional sonic exploration.
Raw black metal and punk band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2019, combining the aggression of raw black metal with punk's stripped-down urgency. Their name means 'fallow land' in Hungarian.
Symphonic black metal band from Linkoping, Sweden, formed in 2019, named after the Greek mountain sacred to Apollo. They layer orchestral grandeur over black metal from the Ostergotland region.
Black metal band from Swansea, Wales, formed in 2023, bringing Welsh black metal fury to the South Wales coast. They channel the rugged Welsh landscape through atmospheric black metal.
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