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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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Black and death metal band from Brussels, Belgium, formed in 2018 and self-described as a 'born dead entity from the hellish void of Brussels.' Their debut 'Eternal Suffer' features five tracks of abyssal extremity anchored by the eight-minute closer 'Call of the Abyss.'
Rock Hill, South Carolina's Cult of the Black Witch operate in the raw, unadorned tradition of black metal, prioritizing cold atmosphere and unvarnished aggression over polish. Their self-titled 2019 release, hand-numbered through Corpse Torture Records, exemplifies the DIY, underground ethos the band embodies.
Black-death metal band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2016. They channel ritualistic darkness through extreme metal from Merseyside.
Black metal project from Winterthur, Switzerland, formed in 2024. They explore the void through atmospheric and aggressive black metal compositions.
Black metal band from Frankfurt am Main, Germany, emerging in 2025. They channel lupine ferocity through raw black metal from the Rhine-Main metropolis.
Black-death-doom metal band from Scotland, emerging in 2026. They blend three extreme metal genres into a dark, wounding assault.
Seattle's Cult of Yog conjure Lovecraftian dread through venomous, bestial black/death metal rooted in the Pacific Northwest's tradition of cavernous, atmospheric extremity. Their self-titled 2021 EP announced a band channeling the darkness of Cascadia into riff-heavy, cosmically hostile metal.
Gothic industrial black metal act from Katowice, active since 2014. Cult ov Mora blends dark electronic textures with black metal and gothic atmospherics from the Silesian capital.
Black metal project from Östergötland, formed in 2022. Cultellus — Latin for 'small knife' — channels raw black metal from central Sweden.
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