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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Death metal, folk metal, and melodic death metal band from Angers, France active since 2015. They fuse folk melodies with extreme metal intensity from the Maine-et-Loire department.
Folk metal/rock act from Madrid, Spain, weaving traditional folk melodies into a heavy framework. Their approach brings folk storytelling and acoustic textures into a metal context with Spanish cultural flair.
Black metal and folk metal band from Cambridge, England active since 2003. With over two decades of history, they blend folk elements with black metal from eastern England.
A Virginia folk/black metal project formed in 2021, Eldaskal weaves pagan melodic sensibility through black metal's fury. The name evokes the Old Norse tradition of skalds — poet-singers — a fitting emblem for music that values lyricism and storytelling.
Folk/black metal act from Kiel in northern Germany, weaving Norse and Germanic folk traditions into raw black metal since 2021. Their Old Norse-derived name reflects the pagan, fire-themed character of their atmospheric folk-infused metal.
Proof that the underground never sleeps, this folk metal act from Kyiv traffics in traditional folk melodies woven into heavy metal frameworks. Since 2014, they've built a catalog that reflects Ukraine's fierce and unyielding metal community.
Draper, Utah's Elderwood draws on atmospheric folk and black metal traditions to evoke the ancient forests and wide landscapes that sit just beyond the Wasatch Front. Active since 2016, the band channels a pastoral, deeply rooted mysticism.
Östersund-based folk metal and symphonic metal act, active since 2021 delivering lush keyboard atmospherics layered over crushing rhythmic power. Rooted in Sweden's legendary metal infrastructure, uncompromising in their vision, they deliver exactly what their audience demands.
Firmly rooted in folk metal, this Russian actfrom Moscow delivers regional folk traditions amplified through distortion and blast beats without compromise. They've been at it since 2013, and their sound resists easy categorization, blending influences into something distinctly their own.
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