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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious (2022)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Black/death metal project from Weilheim in Upper Bavaria, Germany, channeling dark, solitary extremity since 2015. Their name reflects the isolated, self-focused nature of their uncompromising approach to extreme metal.
Blackened progressive metal band originally from Stockholm, Sweden active since 2016. Their sound fuses black metal's darkness with progressive metal's structural complexity.
Black metal project from France, active since 2018. They deliver raw black metal from the French underground.
Atmospheric black metal band from Moscow, Russia formed in 2023. Their sound channels expansive atmospheric black metal from the Russian capital.
Rising from Wrocław's metal underground, this Polish act forges Black Metal and Gothic Metal built on dark, theatrical compositions balancing heaviness with elegance. Each release demonstrates a commitment to artistic evolution.
Part of Poland's relentlessly productive underground, this act channels black metal and doom metal with a focus on icy tremolo lines cascading over relentless percussion. Formed in 2018, based in Wrocław, their sound honors the second wave while forging its own path.
Named for the Aztec wind god, Bay Area's Ehecatl channels atmospheric black metal with a conceptual depth that matches the name's mythological weight — cold, expansive, and active since 2015 in California's rich underground.
Part of the Gothenburg school's homeland, this act channels black metal and pagan metal with a focus on pre-Christian themes and folk instrumentation over extreme metal foundations. Formed in 2019, based in Norrland, the results are heavier and more inventive than the genre tag might suggest.
Italian black metal and raw black metal act, active since 2025 delivering dissonant chord progressions shrouded in reverb-drenched malice. Rooted in the Mediterranean peninsula's diverse metal ecosystem, atmosphere and hostility share equal billing in their work.
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