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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Dial Tone (2022)
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Black metal act from Almada, across the Tagus from Lisbon, formed in 2019. Caixão — Portuguese for 'coffin' — channels raw, morbid black metal.
Salt Lake City epic/atmospheric black metal duo whose conceptual framework is drawn from Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen novels, having released the highly regarded Echoes of Battle in 2013.
Black/death metal act from the Albany, New York area, blending corrosive blackened riffing with death metal brutality since 2015.
Atmospheric black metal project from Halle (Saale), Germany, formed in 2024. They craft dense, layered black metal atmospheres inspired by nature and introspection.
Black-death metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2021. They channel darkness through a fusion of black and death metal from the Alsatian capital.
San Antonio black/death metal band formed in 2025, a newly emerged Texas act fusing the corrosive rawness of black metal with death metal ferocity.
Black metal band from Barcelona, Spain, formed in 2019. They channel dark, atmospheric black metal from the Catalan capital.
One-person symphonic post-black metal project from Bangor, Maine, active since 2018, layering orchestral ambition over atmospheric black metal foundations.
Long-running black metal project rooted in Lynchburg, Virginia before relocating to Cheyenne, Wyoming, dealing in death, disease, and perversion across a career spanning from 2003.
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