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Featured Album
Masters of Morbidity (2022)
Featured Power Metal Album
No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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AMENRA "Song To The Siren" by This Mortal Coil (written by Tim Buckley) (2021)
05/27 @ Théâtre Beanfield, Montreal
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
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San Diego, California black/death metal outfit Cuernos del Chivo combine raw, punishing black metal with the brutal low-end of death metal, forging a relentless and aggressive sound. Their Spanish name — "horns of the goat" — signals their commitment to old-school darkness.
Prolific one-man project with over fifteen full-lengths since 2013. Unpredictable, genre-bending compositions blending doom, prog, and symphonic elements.
Black-death-doom metal band from London, formed in 2020. They channel cult-like darkness through a crushing fusion of three extreme genres.
San Jose's Cult Graves traffick in barbaric black/death metal that draws equally from old Deicide's surgical brutality and Proclamation's war-metal chaos. Formed in 2018 and signed to Transylvanian Recordings, their 2020 full-length Strange Customs established them as one of the Bay Area underground's most uncompromising voices.
Black metal band from Avignon, France, active since 2001. With over two decades of activity, Cult Martyr deliver seasoned black metal from the Provençal city of the Popes.
Black metal act from Basel, Switzerland, formed in 2016. They channel ritualistic darkness and raw intensity through an uncompromising black metal approach.
Formed in Chicago in 1999 by C. Immortum and W. Obscurum, Cult of Daath conjure a primal, misanthropic black metal rooted in the raw primitivism of Hellhammer, early Beherit, and old Mayhem. Their catalog, released through Nuclear War Now! Productions, is a stripped-down devotion to first-wave ferocity and ritual nihilism.
Black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2016. Named after a deity from Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, they craft occult black metal.
Cult of Enthropy is an instrumental black metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed around 2020. The band released their debut album Embrace the Void on October 21, 2020, followed by a limited physical CD edition of 100 copies in May 2021. Their music is entirely instrumental, exploring atmospheric black metal textures without vocals.
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