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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Folk and gothic metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2017. Their sound weaves melodic folk elements and gothic atmospheres into a rich, darkly romantic brand of metal.
Gothic doom act from Warsaw, formed in 2023. Caladria blends dark romanticism with crushing doom from the Polish capital.
Gothic metal band from London, formed in 2014. They weave dark, melancholic atmospheres into heavy metal from the English capital.
Gothic death metal act from Dębica in southeastern Poland, active since 2007. Callahan has spent nearly two decades crafting dark, atmospheric extreme metal from Podkarpacie.
Gothic folk-doom act from Naberezhnye Chelny in Tatarstan, active since 2014. Canonis blends folk melodies with gothic doom from the industrial city on the Kama River.
Symphonic gothic death metal act from Štúrovo, Slovakia, near the Hungarian border, formed in 2025. Canvasser delivers orchestral extreme metal from the Danube frontier.
Gothic metal band from Duisburg, Germany, formed in 2020. They weave melancholic atmospheres and dark beauty into a heavy metal framework.
Gothic metal act from Utrecht, formed in 2021. Cardamon brings dark, melodic atmospherics to the Dutch gothic metal tradition.
Minneapolis project fusing black metal's cold atmosphere with gothic metal's melodic darkness and industrial metal's mechanical, synthetic textures into a multi-layered sound reflecting the upper Midwest.
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