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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Black metal project from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2020. The project channels hostile black metal from Russia's cultural capital.
Experimental black metal, noise, ambient, and grindcore project from Saint Petersburg, with roots dating to 1995. Three decades of genre-defying extreme music represent one of the most avant-garde acts in the Russian underground.
Rake is a black metal band from Kuopio in eastern Finland, active since 2001. Over two decades of black metal from the lakeland city make them veterans of the Finnish black metal underground.
Epic black/doom/folk metal band from Obninsk, Russia, active since 2001. Nearly a quarter century of fantasy-inspired extreme metal blending black metal, doom, and folk elements from the Moscow Oblast science city.
Martin black/pagan metal act formed in 2015, channeling pre-Christian Slovak traditions through black metal's aggressive framework from central Slovakia. Their approach connects extreme metal intensity to deep cultural heritage.
Black metal project from Krasnodar, Russia, formed in 2019. The project delivers black metal from southern Russia.
Rammwurst is a black/death metal band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2017. The band channels aggressive extreme metal from northern Germany's port city underground.
Rance is an atmospheric/raw black metal project from Paris, France, formed in 2017. The project channels cold, atmospheric black metal from the French capital's diverse extreme metal underground.
Rancid Rimjob Rampage is a blackened post-metal trio from Oberhausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2018 and consisting of B. on guitars and vocals, H. on drums, and U. on bass, synth noise, and vocals. Their 2023 album To Live is to Piss in the Wind was written under what they describe as 'the result of the pandemic, war and depression; personal defeats and general weltschmerz.'
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