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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Gothenburg black metal project formed in 2017, adding atmospheric darkness to a city better known for melodic death metal. Their sound channels the intensity of black metal from an unexpected Swedish stronghold.
Post-metal black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2020. They blend black metal with post-metal dynamics and atmospheric expansiveness.
Pleasant Hill, California's Concealed meld groove metal's mid-tempo swagger with nu metal's heavy atmosphere and occasional thrash bite, landing in the aggressive pocket of late-90s Bay Area heaviness.
Norwegian black metal project active since 2011, channeling raw aggression and darkness through an uncompromising sonic vision. Their output carries the primal ferocity associated with Scandinavia's extreme metal lineage.
Progressive black-death metal band from London, active since 2010. They blend progressive complexity with extreme metal darkness from the English capital.
Boston doom outfit Concilium drag listeners through cavernous, slow-motion heaviness, using dense, distorted walls of sound and oppressive tempos to evoke dread and resignation.
Symphonic blackened death metal act from the Ljubljana and Radomlje area, active since 2011. Condemnatio Cristi delivers multi-layered extreme metal from central Slovenia.
Symphonic blackened death-doom act from Moscow, active since 2004. Condemned Cell has spent two decades crafting dark, multi-layered extreme metal from the Russian capital.
War metal in the vein of Havohej, Demoncy, and Beherit. Briefly split in 2016 before reuniting in 2018 with renewed ferocity.
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