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Unreasonable Doubt (2024)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
A Love To Kill For (2023)
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Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious (2022)
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German black metal band from Chemnitz, formed in 2015. Their mountain-themed name and Saxonian roots inform a raw, cold black metal sound.
Czech death/doom metal project from Prague, formed in 2025, fusing death, doom, and black metal into brooding, heavy compositions. Their early output includes tracks like Corpsick and Betrayal alongside the release Bury the Bodies.
Lublin-based death/thrash metal act active since 2005, fusing death metal's guttural intensity with thrash's riff-driven velocity and rhythmic precision. Their high-energy approach delivers the heaviness of death metal married to thrash's urgent momentum.
Bergamo-based progressive power metal act active since 2018, incorporating complex arrangements and technical proficiency into the anthemic framework of European power metal. Their compositions push beyond standard power metal structures into more adventurous territory.
German black metal band from Torgelow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, formed in 2013. They deliver bleak, uncompromising black metal from the remote northeastern German flatlands.
Doom metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, formed in 2020. They bring crushing, slow-tempo heaviness to the northeast England doom scene.
Folk metal outfit from Kyiv, formed in 2020. Their sound integrates traditional melodic elements with metal's aggression, creating a festive yet powerful fusion.
German black/death metal band from Würzburg, formed in 2011. They combine black metal's atmospheric menace with death metal's relentless brutality.
French black metal project formed in 2022. They deliver dark black metal from the French underground.
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