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Ofermod is a Swedish black and death metal band founded in 1996 by Michayah Belfagor, taking their name from an Old English term meaning excessive pride, drawn from a 1953 J.R.R. Tolkien essay. The band's early single Mystérion Tés Anomias (1998) became a cult artifact in the Swedish underground, and after years of inactivity tied to Belfagor's personal circumstances, the band resumed with the debut full-length Tiamtü (2008), produced by Magnus Andersson of Marduk. Subsequent albums Thaumiel (2012) and Sol Nox (2017) extended Ofermod's reputation for theologically dense, occult-oriented black metal.
Old Man's Child is a Norwegian symphonic black metal project founded in 1993 in Oslo by guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Galder, who has remained its sole permanent member throughout its existence. The band's debut Born of the Flickering arrived in 1996, followed by a string of Century Media releases through the 2000s including The Pagan Prosperity (1997), Revelation 666 (2000), In Defiance of Existence (2003), and Vermin (2005). Galder, who also served as a guitarist for Dimmu Borgir from 2002 to 2024, reactivated the project in 2019 to record new material after a decade-long hiatus.
Omega Infinity is an international black/death metal project formed in 2018, led by Tentakel P. of the German avant-garde black metal band Todtgelichter and Australian vocalist Xen of Ne Obliviscaris. Their debut album Solar Spectre (2020), released on Season of Mist, fused raw 1990s black metal aggression with harsh electronics and ambient textures built around cosmic and solar themes. A second album, The Anticurrent, followed in 2023 on the same label, cementing the project's identity as one of the more unconventional acts in modern extreme metal.
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