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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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Tales from the Thousand Lakes (Live at Tavastia) (2024)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Frimaire is a post-black metal/shoegaze project from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2017. Named after the third month of the French Republican Calendar, they blend black metal with shoegaze textures, creating dreamlike atmospheric extremity from the Baltic coast.
Froideur Quantique is a black metal project from Normandy, France, formed in 2022. The project's name — meaning "quantum coldness" — merges scientific imagery with black metal aesthetics.
From Ancient Waters is a melodic black metal project from Leeds, England, active since 2022 and channeling dark melodic atmospheres through black metal. The project contributes to the growing northern English black metal scene.
From Another Life is a depressive/post-black metal project from Hungary, blending black metal with post-rock and shoegaze elements since 2020. The project creates atmospheric, emotionally charged soundscapes.
From Ashes is a blackened gothic/doom metal band from Espoo, Finland, formed in 2019. The band merges blackened aggression with gothic atmospheres and doom metal weight from the Helsinki suburb.
From Beyond the Grave is a depressive black metal project from Niebüll, Germany, formed in 2020. The project channels bleak despair through DSBM from the northernmost reaches of Schleswig-Holstein, near the Danish border.
From Depths is a melodic black metal band from Salerno, Italy, active since 1996 — making them one of the longest-running extreme metal acts in Campania. Their nearly three decades of output have contributed to establishing southern Italy as a serious force in the European black metal landscape.
From Fall of Sins is a melodic black metal band from Jülich, Germany, formed in 2015. The band blends melody with black metal aggression from the Rhineland town.
From Kaos is a melodic black metal band from Nantes, France, formed in 2024. The band channels melodic black metal from the Loire-Atlantique capital.
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