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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 metal band from Kielce in central Poland, active since 2011. Cultes des Ghoules has earned international acclaim for their ritualistic, occult-driven black metal steeped in ceremonial darkness.
Industrial black metal band from Langerringen near Augsburg, Germany, active since 2008. They fuse the raw darkness of black metal with industrial metal's mechanized aggression.
Black-thrash metal band from Farnborough, England, active since 2011. They deliver ferocious, riff-driven black-thrash from Hampshire.
Culto a la Malevolencia is a death/black metal band from Arica, Chile, formed in the late 2010s and active with blasphemous and anti-Christian lyrical themes. Their debut EP "In Nomine Capra," released in January 2019, draws conceptual inspiration from the Cueva de Salamanca, a Chilean site historically associated with witchcraft.
Folk-infused black metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2007. They blend folk elements with occult black metal from Greece's second-largest city.
Culto Licántropo is a black metal band from Bogotá, Colombia. Signed to Sacrilegio Records, they released their debut EP "Culto licántropo eterno" in 2024.
Culto Profano is a Brazilian black metal band associated with the Choduus Brotherhood, an underground collective of Brazilian black metal acts. The band released the album "Inferno" on pro CD-R in 2010 and contributed to a split titled "666" with Naberus in 2015; both releases were later compiled on "Bestial Triunfo" in 2022. The band has since split up.
Black metal project from Belgium, formed in 2017. Devoted to the worship of the night, they create dark and ritualistic black metal steeped in nocturnal atmosphere and occult tradition.
Herndon, Virginia's Cultum Draculesti are a duo devoted to vampyric black/doom metal that prioritizes slow, doomish tempos and an atmosphere of Gothic darkness over raw aggression. Formed in 2020 from the ashes of Spinster City, their self-titled 2021 debut established a sound of atmospheric rawness steeped in mythology, death, and darkened beauty.
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