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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
American Sun (Reimagined) (2021)
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Blackened death metal act from Dublin, formed in 2016. Coscradh — an Irish word meaning 'slaughter' — has earned a fierce reputation for chaotic, war-like extreme metal.
Expansive Atmospheric Black / Post-Metal out of Texas.
Black metal project from Gothenburg, formed in 2020. Cosmic Altar channels cosmic-themed black metal from Sweden's west coast.
Atmospheric black metal band from Bonn, Germany, formed in 2018. They craft spacious, celestial-themed black metal with dense atmospheric layers.
Scorching Death / Black Metal out of Texas.
Atmospheric black metal project from Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany, formed in 2019. They create vast, cosmic-themed atmospheres within a raw black metal framework.
Black metal band from Hauho, Finland, active since 2008. Cosmic Church craft vast, immersive atmospheric black metal with a spiritual and cosmic dimension that has earned them a devoted following.
Blackened death metal project listed under Portugal, formed in 2020. Cosmic Conqueror delivers interstellar-themed extreme metal.
Black-folk-thrash act from Skellefteå in northern Sweden, active since 2014. Cosmic Death blends folk elements and thrash aggression with black metal from the sub-Arctic Norrland.
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