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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 project from Évora, Portugal, active since 2013. The project channels black metal from the ancient Alentejo city.
Black metal project from Bristol, England, formed in 2022. Named after the mystical order, the project channels occult black metal from the West Country.
Warsaw-based band that evolved from post-black metal into post-rock and folk territory. Their stylistic journey reflects a move away from metal's heaviness toward more contemplative acoustic and atmospheric music.
Folk/thrash/black metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2018. Their approach weaves folk elements into a thrash and black metal framework from the Russian capital.
Rost is a post-black metal band from Munich, Germany, active since 2010 — the name meaning 'rust' in German. Over a decade of activity has established the band in Munich's diverse extreme metal landscape.
Rosth is a black metal project from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2021. The project channels atmospheric black metal from Germany's most populous federal state.
Rostiger Nagel is a black metal and punk project from Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, formed in 2023. Named 'Rusty Nail' in German, the project fuses raw black metal with punk aggression from the vibrant Leipzig underground.
Rot is a black/thrash metal band from Antwerp, Belgium, self-describing their style as 'Raping Thrash' — a raw, aggressive hybrid rooted in the blackened thrash tradition. After years of activity in the Antwerp underground, the band released their long-awaited debut studio album 'As Darkness Burns' in December 2022.
Nikopol black metal act formed in 2011, channeling atmospheric darkness from the Dnipro River city in central Ukraine. Their German-named project speaks to the international character of the black metal tradition.
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