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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Featured Grindcore Album
The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Symphonic black-death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2015. They blend symphonic grandeur with extreme metal darkness from the Greek capital.
Progressive symphonic metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2015. They blend progressive complexity with symphonic grandeur from Scotland's largest city.
Symphonic blackened death metal act from the Ljubljana and Radomlje area, active since 2011. Condemnatio Cristi delivers multi-layered extreme metal from central Slovenia.
Symphonic blackened death-doom act from Moscow, active since 2004. Condemned Cell has spent two decades crafting dark, multi-layered extreme metal from the Russian capital.
Symphonic metal band from Friedberg, Germany, formed in 2017. They create grand, orchestral metal with lush arrangements and dramatic vocal performances.
Symphonic metal project from Varaždin, Croatia, formed in 2017. Core of Creation weaves orchestral arrangements and soaring melodies into a polished heavy metal framework.
Seattle black and symphonic metal band that layers orchestral grandeur over black metal's icy ferocity. Their sound is cinematic in scope, drawing on the gloom and grandeur of the Pacific Northwest.
Symphonic power metal act from Ivanovo, formed in 2019. Cotos delivers orchestral, anthem-driven power metal from central Russia.
Symphonic black-doom metal band from England, formed in 2022. They weave symphonic grandeur through darkened doom-black metal.
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