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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Hexentod is a raw black metal project from Ukraine, active since 2022 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Hexenvomit is a raw black metal project from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2018 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
London-based stoner doom metal project active since 2023. Their celestial name suits sun-baked, heavy compositions that blend stoner grooves with doom weight from the British capital.
Raw Black Metal outfit rooted in Utrecht Province, channeling menacing underground intensity since 2017. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
Hirjä is a raw black/funeral doom metal project from Grand Est, France, active since 2024 and crafting glacially slow, suffocating heaviness at the most oppressive tempos in extreme metal. The project plumbs the depths of despair through crushing, extended compositions.
Born in Los Angeles in 2020, Hohlgeist fuses raw black metal with shoegaze, wrapping tremolo-drenched noise in hazy, atmospheric drift. The result is something hollow and haunted, as if the void itself has a texture.
Born in the devastating underground of Borlänge, this raw black metal/punk act has delivered unflinching intensity since 2021. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Apopka, Florida's Hollentor deal in the epic and the anthemic, blending heavy metal muscle with power metal's soaring sensibility since 2017. Their name — German for "gateway to hell" — hints at the grandiose drama they pursue.
Raw black metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, active since 2015. Their stripped-down, lo-fi approach embraces the most primitive currents of black metal.
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