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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
State Of Unrest (2023)
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German folk metal band from Oberhausen, formed in 2014. They bring folk instrumentation and thematic elements into a heavy metal framework with a distinctly German character.
French post-black metal band from Paris, formed in 2019. They dissolve black metal into atmospheric post-metal textures from the French capital.
German heavy/power metal band from Nuremberg, formed in 2025. They represent a brand-new entry in Nuremberg's storied metal tradition.
Death metal outfit from Milan, formed in 2020. Their sound draws from the genre's foundational playbook of crushing riffs, blast beats, and growled vocals, executed with the conviction of dedicated extremists.
French black metal band from Paris, formed in 2021. They deliver Bavarian-themed black metal atrocity from the French capital.
German black/death metal project from Bavaria, formed in 2022. As their name suggests, they unite Austrian and Bavarian metal brotherhood in a blackened death metal assault.
Bavtist is a Venezuelan black metal and dark ambient project formed in 2015, active under the GreySun Records label. The project released the demo "Baptism I: Mysterios Xristos" in 2017, followed by the full-length "Bt. II: Mysterios Xristos / World Appendix" in 2019, exploring themes of Satanism through corrosive black metal and atmospheric dark ambient textures.
German black metal band from Niederwerrn, formed in 2019, with a discography including De Vermis Mysteriis, Catacomb Cult, and Devoted to HIM. Their occult-themed black metal draws from dark mysticism and ancient evil.
German power/heavy metal band from Pforzheim, formed in 2020. They craft anthemic power metal with heavy metal muscle from the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg.
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